Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Updated 1m ago
President Donald Trump threatened a $1 billion lawsuit against the BBC over a misleadingly edited Jan. 6 documentary, demanding retraction and apology after the broadcaster apologized and two executives resigned.
Eight Senate Democrats joined Republicans to advance a bill in the U.S. Senate to end the government shutdown, prompting internal party backlash and calls for Chuck Schumer to step down.
Analyses showed China's CO2 emissions had been flat or falling for 18 months, drawing focus to Beijing at COP30 in Belém, Brazil after the United States stayed away.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review an appeal seeking to overturn its 2015 decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide, rejecting a challenge brought by a former Kentucky county clerk.
President Donald Trump pardoned Rudy Giuliani and 76 others for roles in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a federal-only move that cannot shield them from state prosecutions.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was released from La Santé prison in Paris after three weeks and placed under strict judicial supervision pending his appeal, including travel and contact bans.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to let it withhold full SNAP funding amid a federal shutdown that left millions without benefits after an appeals court blocked its attempt.
Global stock markets rallied after U.S. senators moved to advance a measure to end the government shutdown, sending equities higher across Wall Street, Europe and Asia.
German automakers lost market share and saw electric-vehicle sales fall sharply in China and the United States as Chinese rivals rolled out ultra-cheap swap‑battery cars and subsidies ended.
Canada lost its measles elimination status after health authorities determined endemic transmission had been re-established following more than 5,000 cases and two deaths in 2025.
The FDA said it would remove black box warnings from hormone replacement therapies for menopause, saying benefits outweigh risks, while critics called the evidence insufficient.
European firms launched AI pilots—from Italy’s Autostrade road-monitoring plan and an autonomous shop in France—to modernise infrastructure, as researchers warned of large data‑center environmental costs.
Ten years after the 2015 Paris Agreement, nearly 200 signatories achieved uneven greenhouse‑gas cuts while global emissions remained higher, showing limited collective progress.
Governments and companies accelerated construction of massive AI data centers worldwide, prompting environmental, water and grid-strain concerns, community transparency demands and lawmakers’ scrutiny over rising electric bills.
Hungarian-British author David Szalay won the 2025 Booker Prize in London for his novel Flesh, a spare portrait of a Hungarian man's rise into the super-rich.
Haftbefehl's documentary propelled Reinhard Mey's 55-year-old song "In meinem Garten" back into the German charts, and Mey publicly thanked the rapper.
The International Olympic Committee considered banning transgender women from women's Olympic events ahead of the Los Angeles 2028 Games, multiple sources said.
Two people died during the ATP Finals in Turin on Monday, with one collapsing in the Inalpi Arena and another at a fan festival, Spiegel reported.
A car explosion near the Red Fort in New Delhi on Monday evening killed at least eight people and injured dozens, police said, while authorities investigated the cause.
The Vatican opened an investigation into Cádiz and Ceuta Bishop Rafael Zornoza over alleged sexual abuse of a minor in the 1990s, and he suspended duties and denied the accusations.
Spanish singer Rosalía released her new album Lux, and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez congratulated her, calling it "dazzling" and saying it placed Spain atop the global music scene.
