The roof of a private school in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar collapsed on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026, leaving at least 35 people dead — 34 children and a teacher — and more than 50 others injured. Authorities and a hospital official called the deadliest incident of its kind...

Reality star Amber Siyavus, a houseguest on the CBS series “Big Brother,” has died at 46. Records from the Clark County Office of the Coroner/Medical Examiner in Nevada list her date of death as Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. Her death became public Monday, Oct. 12. The show’s official account posted on...

A Houthi missile struck a passenger terminal at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026, killing 13 people, including an American citizen, and injuring 309. The attack was the deadliest in Saudi Arabia in more than a decade. Attackers struck the airport four times in...

Yuleidy Ixcotoyac, a 15-year-old girl from rural Guatemala, sat up inside her coffin during her own wake on Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. She is now conscious, and Guatemalan prosecutors are investigating how her family came to believe she had died. Her family had placed her in a wooden casket in...

King Charles III is writing privately to Pope Leo XIV to pass on his best wishes after surgeons removed a cancerous tumor from the pontiff’s right lung, a royal source said Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026. The roughly 90-minute operation was performed Tuesday, Oct. 13, at Rome’s Gemelli University Hospital. The...

President Donald Trump used an Oval Office appearance on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026, to say he had passed on going after three of the most prominent Democrats in American public life. Nothing, he added, was stopping him from reconsidering. Trump named Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state he ran...

The Bratenahl Architectural Review Board approved the landscaping in front of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s lakefront mansion outside Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, but put the rear-yard tree plan on hold over a dispute about how tall the plantings would grow. The meeting handed the couple a...

Mia Shay St Hilaire, a 12-year-old girl, died after drinking a milkshake mixed in an unwashed blender at a south London cafe. The inquest into her death wrapped up at Inner South London Coroner’s Court on Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, where the coroner pointed to failures and missed opportunities...