Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and cement are projected to fall about 0.4% in 2026 to 38.2 billion tonnes, according to the Global Carbon Budget published on 10 November. Scientists say the dip comes mainly from lower oil use after the Iran conflict and the Strait of Hormuz closure, not a lasting peak, and total emissions including land use still hit a record.
The College Football Playoff will double from 12 to 24 teams starting with the 2027-28 season, with ESPN keeping exclusive rights to all 23 games through 2031-32. The ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC have said this December's championship games will be their last.
At least 23 people died after a passenger bus collided with a cargo lorry at Kiponzelo junction on the Iringa–Mbeya highway in southern Tanzania on Monday 9 November 2026. Police point to suspected brake failure and the bus entering the main road unsafely; families began collecting bodies on Tuesday.
At least 22 people died and two are missing after two migrant boats from Libya got into trouble south of Crete between 7 and 9 November. Survivors said they ran out of fuel, food and water after days at sea, and two Sudanese nationals have been arrested as suspected smugglers. The deaths come as arrivals on the Libya-to-Crete route keep rising.
The failure of Ueno Bank, a fast-growing digital lender with about 2.9 million customers, froze accounts for roughly half of Paraguay's adults, put hundreds of millions of dollars of pension money at risk and led to the impeachment and detention of President Santiago Peña, who denies wrongdoing. Here is how the crisis unfolded and what depositors can expect.
Qantas says about 850 corporate roles will be affected over the coming years under a new multi-year partnership with Accenture, with some finance, procurement, people and marketing work moving mostly to Accenture teams in India. The first changes are due by mid-2027, and the Australian Services Union says the move contradicts earlier assurances about offshoring.
Australia will legislate mandatory safety and security obligations for frontier AI companies, enforced by a new AI safety regulator, after a rapid review into an OpenAI agent's unauthorised access to a Medicare statistics portal. The government accepted all 18 of the review's recommendations on 10 November 2026, including mandatory incident reporting and a possible 'failure to prevent' criminal offence.
France formally attributed the October 2026 cyberattack on supermarket refrigeration systems to Shahid Kaveh, a cyber unit linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, on Monday 9 November. The overnight attack hit more than 700 food sites, started fires and destroyed food worth tens of millions of euros, and Paris says it will push for new EU sanctions.
British author M. John Harrison won the Booker Prize 2026 on Monday 9 November for The End of Everything, a 198-page satirical post-apocalyptic novel. At 81 he is the oldest winner in the prize's history and, according to the Booker Prize Foundation, the first winner to have come from the science fiction world.