Tuesday, November 10, 2026
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.
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.
An explosion at the HABAŞ iron and steel plant in Aliağa, north of Izmir in western Turkey, killed 17 workers on Monday 9 November 2026 after an overhead crane collapsed into an electric arc furnace during maintenance, officials said. Prosecutors have detained six suspects, and labour groups say the blast followed other recent deaths at the same plant.
Russell Brand was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on Monday 9 November 2026 to 10 years and six months in prison for one rape and three sexual assaults against four women between 2004 and 2009. Mr Justice Bennathan said Brand will serve two-thirds of the term before release on licence and will be indefinitely subject to sex offender notification requirements.
Japan's Ministry of Finance disclosed on 9 November 2026 that it spent a record ¥7.9756 trillion, about $50 billion, buying yen on 30 July, then ¥5.5523 trillion on 31 July alongside the United States and ¥1.8714 trillion on 3 August. The three days total ¥15.3993 trillion, yet the yen was still trading around 158 per dollar this week.
The US Food and Drug Administration said on 9 November 2026 that every GLP-1 receptor agonist, from Ozempic and Wegovy to Mounjaro, Zepbound and the new pill Foundayo, must carry a warning about a potential increased risk of NAION, a rare optic-nerve condition that can cause sudden, sometimes permanent, vision loss in one eye. The FDA called the risk potential and rare; it did not restrict any approved use.
The second Test between Bangladesh and West Indies in Sylhet ended in a draw on Monday 9 November, giving West Indies the two-match series 1-0. Towhid Hridoy scored a national-record 242 not out and 82, a Bangladesh record 324 runs in one Test, while Mushfiqur Rahim became the first Bangladeshi to reach 7,000 Test runs.