California voters rejected Proposition 40, the one-time 5% billionaire tax, after the AP called the race on November 9. Here is what the result means next.
M. John Harrison, 81, has won the 2026 Booker Prize for The End of Everything, becoming the award’s oldest winner and its first science-fiction author.
Malaysia’s High Court has cleared former prime minister Najib Razak to serve the rest of his graft sentence under house arrest at his Kuala Lumpur home.
France blames Iran’s Revolutionary Guard for the October cyberattack on about 700 supermarket fridges and will seek EU sanctions against those responsible.
Boeing will cut about 5% of its commercial airplane workforce, around 2,500 jobs, as slower 737 MAX production leaves the division overstaffed.
An explosion at the HABAŞ steel plant in Aliağa killed 17 workers after a crane fell into an arc furnace. Investigators are now examining what went wrong.
China’s trade surplus passed $1 trillion in the first ten months of 2026 as October exports jumped 35.2%, powered by the global AI infrastructure boom.
Nigeria will build a $2 billion East-West Super Grid to raise transmission capacity to 19,000MW, with stable electricity promised within three to five years.
Botswana will double its De Beers stake from 15% to 30% after President Duma Boko backed the Gareth Penny-led consortium bidding for Anglo American’s 85% holding.
INEC has deleted 1.6 million invalid voter records ahead of Nigeria’s 2027 elections and named 54 officials across 10 states for possible prosecution.
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for border wall construction in Texas’s Big Bend region, lifting a month-old halt in an unsigned order.
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie says he is weighing a third White House run in 2028, declaring the Trump era over after Republican midterm losses.
