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Lead On Dec. 5, 2025, IndiGo, India’s largest carrier, canceled more than 1,000 flights, halting over half of its scheduled departures and leaving thousands of passengers stranded across the country. The disruption, centered on New Delhi and rippling to airports from Bengaluru to Ahmedabad, followed days of increasing cancellations that began on Dec. 2. IndiGo … Read more
President Donald J. Trump on Dec. 4, 2025, replaced the architecture team overseeing a planned White House ballroom, the administration announced, after months of disagreement over design, size and a compressed timetable. The White House named Shalom Baranes Associates to lead the next design phase, departing from McCrery Architects, whose principal had presented plans meant … Read more
Today’s World Cup 2026 draw took place at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC on 5 December 2025, as 48 qualified nations and several playoff hopefuls learned group allocations. The ceremony combined spectacle — hosts, pop performances and celebrity presenters — with procedural detail: FIFA confirmed the four pots of 12 and the basic constraints … Read more
Lead: On 5 December 2025, the White House published a 33-page National Security Strategy that warns Europe could face “civilisational erasure” within two decades because of migration and EU policy trends. Signed with an introduction by President Donald Trump, the document calls for the United States to “cultivate resistance” inside European countries and signals explicit … Read more
On Friday morning a short-lived Cloudflare outage knocked a range of sites offline worldwide, including LinkedIn and Zoom. Cloudflare said the disruption began after it changed firewall settings to shield customers from a newly disclosed software vulnerability and that the incident was not the result of a cyberattack. The company reported the problem lasted about … Read more
In a landmark enforcement action on [today], the European Commission fined Elon Musk’s platform X €120 million (£105 million) for what regulators called a deceptive verification scheme. The Commission concluded that allowing paid blue checkmarks without meaningful identity verification misleads users and raises the risk of impersonation and scams across the EU. The decision, issued … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin made his first trip to India since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine for a one-day Delhi visit that combined ceremony, business talks and bilateral signings. Meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Putin attended a state banquet, inspected a guard of honour and spoke at a business forum where multiple memorandums were signed. … Read more
Lead Who: The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). When: A multi-day meeting that began Thursday, with a vote expected Friday. Where: Atlanta, Georgia; the process advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). What: Members debated whether to alter the long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours … Read more
The European Union has imposed a €120 million fine on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, in a move that has heightened tensions with the United States. The penalty stems from EU enforcement of bloc-wide digital rules and marks one of the more visible instances of post‑regulatory pressure on a major U.S. … Read more
Lead: In Toronto on Dec. 4, 2025, LeBron James ended a run of scoring at least 10 points in 1,297 consecutive NBA games by feeding Rui Hachimura for a buzzer-winning 3-pointer. With 8 points entering the final possession, James chose to make the pass rather than force a shot, securing a Lakers victory and closing … Read more
Lead U.S. internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare said on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, that it implemented a fix after a problem with its dashboard and related apps briefly disrupted sites worldwide. The incident, first reported in the mid-morning London window, coincided with a spike in user reports around 9:16 a.m. London time and caused some major … Read more
Lead The White House on Wednesday released a 33-page National Security Strategy that singles out Europe, warning the continent could face “civilisational erasure” if current trends continue and questioning whether some states can remain reliable partners. The document lays out President Donald Trump’s stated roadmap for using U.S. military and economic power to reshape global … Read more
Lead Speaker Mike Johnson, who rose to the leadership two years ago, is confronting an unusually intense bout of dissent inside his own conference in early December 2025. Members across the ideological spectrum are pressing him to change tactics ahead of the 2026 midterms, while his most important outside ally, former President Donald Trump, has … Read more
Broadcasters in Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and Slovenia announced they will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest after the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) confirmed Israel may compete. The decisions, made public on Dec. 5, 2025, follow an EBU general assembly that tightened voting rules but declined to bar any member broadcaster. The … Read more
Police in Auckland said they recovered a Fabergé egg pendant valued at about $19,000 after a man allegedly swallowed it during an attempted theft at a Partridge Jewelers store. Authorities say the 32-year-old suspect, arrested on Nov. 28, was held under continuous observation while in custody until the pendant passed naturally six days later. Officers … Read more
