Sunday, November 15, 2026
England beat Spain 3-2 in Madrid on 15 November 2026 to end the world champions' 43-match unbeaten run and finish top of UEFA Nations League Group A3. Harry Kane, Ezri Konsa and Ben White put England 3-0 up before Elliot Anderson's red card let Spain back in.
Filipino singer Carmelle won the first Eurovision Song Contest Asia in Bangkok on 14 November 2026 with Sobra-Sobra, scoring 211 points and topping both the jury and public votes. Hosts Thailand finished second and Vietnam third in an 11-country final that organisers hope will become an annual regional contest.
A Japan-led investigation coordinated by JPCERT/CC has found about 1,000 servers, online since October, that appear to have used AI tools to hunt for weaknesses in websites and apps worldwide, Kyodo News reported on 14 November 2026. The finding follows a wave of large personal-data leaks in Japan that the agency linked to API abuse, known-flaw scanning and AI penetration-testing platforms.
Canada and the Philippines concluded negotiations on a bilateral free trade agreement in Manila on Saturday, 14 November 2026, and Canada said talks on a wider ASEAN-Canada deal are substantially concluded. Both agreements still have to be finalised and signed, with signature targeted for 2027, so no tariffs change yet.
Twenty-six people, many of them college students, were killed when an overloaded minibus collided head-on with a container truck on National Highway 715 near Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India, on Friday, 13 November 2026. Investigators are examining speeding, overloading, a removed speed limiter, poor brakes and a possible medical emergency suffered by the driver.
SpaceX caught its Starship upper stage with the launch tower's arms at Starbase, Texas, on Saturday, 14 November 2026, after about 22 hours and 14 orbits in space. It was the first time any Starship has been recovered from orbit. But the Super Heavy booster aborted its own tower catch on Friday and was destroyed over the Gulf of Mexico, so the first full recovery of the rocket will have to wait.
US producer prices rose 0.3% in October and 6.5% from a year earlier, the fastest annual pace since November 2022, as diesel, trucking and food costs worked through supply chains. The data strengthens expectations of a Federal Reserve rate rise on 8–9 December.
Türkiye and Qatar signed a mutual defence agreement in Istanbul on Friday, 13 November 2026, pledging a unified stance against any external armed attack on either country. The full text has not been published, so it is not yet clear what would trigger the pact or what a joint response would involve.
The US Federal Aviation Administration halted departures at every US airport for more than four hours on Friday, 13 November 2026, after a communications failure hit several regional air traffic control centres. Officials blamed overloaded legacy equipment, said there was no sign of a cyberattack, and FlightAware data showed more than 12,500 US flights cancelled across Friday and Saturday morning.