Pins matching date:2026-10-26

The WTO committee that polices the 2025 ban on subsidies for illegal fishing and for fishing overfished stocks holds its second regular meeting in Geneva, as talks on the unfinished 'Fish 2' rules run in parallel.

The FDA has set 26 October 2026 as its priority-review goal date for GSK's bepirovirsen, an antisense drug aimed at a functional cure of chronic hepatitis B after two positive phase III B-Well trials.

Finnair launches daily flights from Helsinki to Melbourne via Bangkok on 26 October 2026, its first scheduled service to Australia, using the retrofitted A350.

Lotte's squeezable Coolish ice returns in a coffee collaboration with Megmilk Snow Brand's Yukijirushi Coffee, 135 ml for 205 yen from 26 October.

The Simpsons season 38, episode 4, "Treehouse of Horror XXXVII", is the annual Halloween special, airing Sunday 25 October 2026 at 8 pm ET on FOX with a stop-motion Nightmare Before Christmas opening, Marge's many husbands, a Bart and Santa's Little Helper body swap, and Homer's driving lesson.

OpenAI releases its lower-cost Terra model for visual reasoning, computer use and writing. Independent launch tests show useful efficiency gains alongside task-specific accuracy limits.

Verizon's third-quarter 2026 results, where it has guided mobility and broadband service revenue growth to approach 3.0 percent on the way to about 4.0 percent in the fourth quarter.

Ottawa’s complete unofficial count returns Mark Sutcliffe with 139,354 votes (44.65%), ahead of Jeff Leiper’s 105,819 (33.90%). The clerk’s certification remains separate.

Taylor Swift, 36, the youngest songwriter ever elected, joins the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame at its 56th anniversary gala at the Music City Center, with Lyle Lovett, Bruce Channel, Shawn Camp, Lee Thomas Miller and the late J.I. Allison.

The 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party meets in Beijing from 26 to 29 October 2026 for its fifth plenary session, centred on 'full and rigorous Party self-governance'.

Fifteen national winners compete over 26 and 27 October in Antwerp across bonbon, design, taste and share challenges, with the new World Chocolate Master streamed live on 27 October.

A planned Okinawan and chicken restaurant with published launch lunches, shabu-shabu, claypot rice and drinks.

Microsoft introduces a voluntary exit program across four countries. About 60,000 employees are eligible; that figure is not a confirmed departure or layoff count.

Anthropic publicly files its IPO registration statement on October 26, seeking the Nasdaq ticker ANT. Share count, price range and first trading date remain unset.

Toronto’s complete unofficial count gives Olivia Chow 532,201 votes (54.16%), ahead of Brad Bradford’s 404,013 (41.11%). Certification is separate from this election-night result.

Harry Kane wins the 2026 Men’s Ballon d’Or at London’s Palladium on October 26, ahead of Kylian Mbappé and Lamine Yamal. The prior market forecast correctly favoured the eventual winner.