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- Australia's High Court hears challenge to under-16 social media ban
Australia's highest court heard challenges on 3 and 4 November to the ban on social media for under-16s, in force since December 2025. According to Al…
- Bluetooth HDT lifts LE to 7.5 Mbps, with lossless audio due in 2027
The Bluetooth SIG, the body that sets the standard, adopted a new radio layer called High Data Throughput (HDT) on 4 November 2026. It raises the top…
- CVS plans to split in two: insurance on one side, pharmacies on the other
CVS Health said on 4 November that it intends to separate into two publicly traded companies, one built around insurance and drug-benefit management, the…
- CVS Health plans to split into two listed companies by 2028
CVS Health announced on 4 November its intention to separate into two independent, publicly traded companies, following a strategic review led by its…
- Spain’s transport minister Óscar Puente resigns after the Urda crash
Spain’s transport minister, Óscar Puente, has resigned after the rail accident at Urda, in Toledo province, which killed 69 people. He is also giving up…
- Democrats retake US Congress, projections show
Democrats have won control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in the midterm elections held on Tuesday, November 3, according to…
- Hubble: NASA asks industry how to lift its sinking orbit
NASA is asking private companies how the Hubble Space Telescope's slowly falling orbit could be dealt with. According to the agency, a mission would need…
- Neutral hydrogen: MeerKAT detects the large-scale 21-cm signal at a significance of 6.2
The MeerKLASS collaboration reports a direct measurement of the 21-cm radio signal from neutral hydrogen on large scales, made with South Africa's…
- Kazakhstan frees a second Amur tiger in its Ili-Balkhash reserve
Kazakhstan has released a second tiger into the wild, a male named Amur, as part of a programme to bring back a species that vanished from the country…
- Java the Labrador pegs washing on a line and earns a Guinness record
A 5-year-old black Labrador named Java has earned a Guinness World Record for the most clothes pegs put on a washing line by a dog in one minute. The…
- Champions League: Como rout Lens 9-1 at Bollaert
Como beat Lens 9-1 on 4 November, on the fourth matchday of the Champions League league phase. According to two sites consulted, the lopsided score lifts…
- Fenerbahçe beat Liverpool 3-2 in the Champions League
Fenerbahçe beat Liverpool 3-2 in Istanbul on Wednesday, November 4, in matchday four of the Champions League league phase. Vedat Muriqi scored the winner…
- The Louvre opens “Louvre Photo”, more than 300 images of the museum since 1839
The Louvre opens its exhibition “Louvre Photo” on Wednesday 4 November, on view in the Napoléon mezzanine until 3 May 2027. According to the museum's…
- WHO says gains against neglected tropical diseases are fragile
The World Health Organization published on 4 November its mid-term review of the 2021-2030 road map against neglected tropical diseases. According to the…
- Meta buys Conductor, a tool for running several coding agents at once
Meta has acquired Conductor, a young company whose tool lets users run several AI coding agents in parallel, TechCrunch reported on 4 November 2026.…
- US midterms: Mississippi and Alaska Senate races still hang on a handful of votes
The morning after the US midterm elections, two Senate seats were still undecided on Wednesday, November 4: Mississippi and Alaska.
- Rafael Nadal set to take a seat on Real Madrid’s board
Real Madrid said on 4 November that it is proposing Rafael Nadal as a member of its board. The retired tennis player has accepted, but his appointment…
- Femina 2026 honours Yannick Haenel, Laura Kasischke and Jennifer Tamas
The Femina jury named its winners in Paris on 4 November 2026. Yannick Haenel is rewarded in French fiction for "La solitude des professeurs est infinie"…
- Swapping dairy for unfortified plant drinks: a risk of iodine shortfall
Swapping dairy foods for plant-based substitutes that are not fortified could lead to shortfalls of some nutrients, notably iodine, according to a…
- A 4-foot ball python found in a trash can at a Glendale park
A maintenance worker found a ball python curled up inside a trash can at a park in Glendale, California, while emptying the bins, UPI reported on 4…
- Climate adaptation: UNEP puts the South's annual need at 305 billion dollars
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) published its adaptation gap report on 4 November 2026. Developing countries would need roughly 305 billion dollars a…
- Measles: a child dies in upstate New York, the state’s first such death in three decades
A child has died of measles in Lewis County, in upstate New York. According to state officials, it is the first such death in the state in 30 years.
- Wall Street surges after the midterms as oil falls more than 8%
Wall Street rose sharply on Wednesday, November 4, the day after Democrats won Congress, while oil fell steeply. The Dow Jones Industrial Average had its…
- Waymo confirms Uber will lose exclusivity in Austin and Atlanta
Waymo will end Uber's exclusivity for its robotaxis in Austin and Atlanta in January 2028. According to TechCrunch, co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana confirmed it…
- AMD: data centers drive the rise in sales
AMD reported on Tuesday, November 3, revenue of $13.38 billion for its third quarter, which ended on September 26, up 45% from a year earlier. The…
- England’s winter is crucial for farm water reserves
Recent rain in England has not been enough to end the drought. In its update of 2 November, the Environment Agency says that 82% of the country remains…
- In Metz, Anne Percin wins a prize for a novel of family memory
The 2026 Erckmann-Chatrian Prize was awarded on November 2 to Anne Percin for Eugénie sous les bombes, published by Buchet-Chastel. The 97th edition…
- Museum collections redraw the bandicoot family tree
Two additional bandicoot species are emerging from museum collections. In an explanatory article published on November 2, researchers behind a study of…
- Karl Bushby returns to Hull after a 28-year journey
Karl Bushby returned to his home city of Hull, in northern England, on 2 November, after a journey that began in South America in 1998. The British…
- Cancer research links cGAS to cellular cholesterol
A protein known for detecting DNA inside cells may also have a role within their nuclei, linked to cholesterol metabolism. In a study published on…