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Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 Police estimated more than 750,000 people at the parade and rally on 30 October, two days after the Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays to win the first championship in the club's history.
Kreepin Deth, CC BY-SA 3.0 Historic England added 197 sites to its annual Heritage at Risk Register on 5 November and removed 85 that have been rescued, including Edward Jenner's vaccination hut.
A founder of Cybotron, Model 500 and the Metroplex label, Atkins died in Mexico City on 1 November, his agency said. He had been booked to DJ there that weekend.
Syced, CC0 One board member voted for a rise on 30 October, and most economists expect the Bank to raise rates in December.
Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0 The Nasdaq Composite fell 5.5% on Thursday 5 November and entered a correction as AI and semiconductor shares tumbled, and the selling spread to Asian markets on Friday.
Steve Daniels, CC BY-SA 2.0 The Bank's first rate rise since 2023 was backed by all nine policymakers on 5 November, and one wanted a bigger increase. Staff expect inflation to reach about 5% by the middle of next year.
Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0 The European Central Bank kept its deposit rate at 2.5% on 29 October, the same day its president said she would leave on 7 February. A week later, euro zone inflation reached 4%.
Federal Reserve, public domain Governor Lisa Cook and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack wanted a quarter-point increase on 28 October. Figures published the next day showed the economy grew at a 3.4% annual rate in the third quarter.
King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 4.0 Chancellor John Healey's Budget on 28 October also raised tax on savings and property income. The OBR cut its 2027 growth forecast to about 1% and said inflation would average 3.5% that year.
NASA/Tim Kopra, public domain Brent crude fell 8.7% on 4 November on hopes the election result would speed an end to the war with Iran, then rose back towards $100 a barrel after new tanker attacks.
Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0 The Shakespearean actor who became Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Professor Charles Xavier died at his home in Los Angeles on 28 October. His spokesperson said he had been living with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia.
Gérald Garitan, CC BY-SA 4.0 France's most prestigious literary prize went on 3 November to *L'Inconnue du quai de Javel*, Jaenada's investigation into the unsolved killing of a Montparnasse artists' model. The Renaudot, announced the same day, went to François-Henri Désérable.
The largest museum ever built in New South Wales opens on 7 November while a government misconduct investigation keeps its suspended chief executive, who denies any wrongdoing, away from it.
Amrei-Marie, CC BY-SA 4.0 The Swedish-American conductor, who led orchestras in Dresden, San Francisco and Leipzig and was still on the podium in May at 98, died at home in Gothenburg on 4 November.
Office of the President, Taiwan, CC BY 4.0 Santiago Peña announced his resignation on Thursday 5 November, two days after the central bank seized the digital lender Ueno, and the lower house voted 78-0 to impeach him minutes later. A vote on the resignation collapsed for lack of quorum, so he remains president while the Senate tries him. No verdict had been reported as of early Friday 6 November.
President Zelensky said on Thursday 5 November that 43 people had been killed when Russian bombs hit an aid distribution point in a school in Zaporizhzhia region on Monday. Police said up to 33 more may still be under the rubble.
MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC, public domain A senior Iranian official, speaking anonymously to Reuters on Thursday 5 November, said Tehran had passed a nuclear proposal to Washington through Qatar but would discuss it only once the US meets seven demands. Neither the US nor Qatar has confirmed it. The same day, Iranian forces said several tankers caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz.
Simfan34, CC BY-SA 3.0 Ethiopia ordered Sudan's consulate in the border town of Asosa closed and its six staff out, and Sudan retaliated by shutting Ethiopia's consulate in Gedaref, Sudanese officials said on Wednesday 4 November, as each accuses the other of backing its armed opponents.
Alisdare Hickson, CC BY-SA 4.0 The 2026 Lancet Countdown report estimates that heat was linked to about 710,000 deaths in 2023 and, for the first time, attributes more than 70% of that toll to human-caused warming.
National Human Genome Research Institute, public domain A one-off infusion of an experimental base-editing therapy corrected more than half of the faulty gene copies in a 66-year-old man's liver. The peer-reviewed evidence so far is that single case.