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The 2026 Nobel Prize laureates were announced from October 5 to 12. On October 5, the Physiology or Medicine Prize was awarded for work on optogenetics and light-gated ion channels. In honor of the prize's 125th anniversary, the amount of each prize was increased from 11 to 12 million Swedish kronor.
For more than three weeks, protests by schoolchildren who have blocked entrances to lycées have continued in France; on Saturday, hundreds of new demonstrations were announced with the participation of trade unions and the 'yellow vests'. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu claims that Jean-Luc Mélenchon's radical left is using the movement for electoral purposes. Against the backdrop of record spending on the national debt, six prime ministers in five years and a teenager's injury, it is being discussed whether France is on the brink of a crisis.
OpenAI discovered a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at its San Francisco office and reported it to the FBI. Arrested was 35-year-old Saudi Arabian citizen Abdulrahman Alfozan, who had worked at the company as an engineer since July 2025. He is charged with intercepting oral conversations; the company said there are no signs of unauthorized access to model weights, code, or customer data.
Social media spread videos claiming an interest-free installment plan with no down payment for Chevrolet Damas, Cobalt, Tracker and Onix. UzAuto Motors' press service told Gazeta.uz that the company has no such sales plans and urged people not to spread unverified information. At the same time, since October 7 the company has been selling Cobalt and Damas in installments without banks, with down payments of 50% and 30% respectively.
According to NASA, the Perseverance rover had traveled 45.22 km across the surface of Mars as of October 11, 2026, breaking Opportunity's record of 45.16 km. The rover continues collecting rock samples for delivery to Earth and, according to the project manager, is in excellent technical condition.
The UK government has announced that from 6 November 2026, possessing and publishing pornography depicting strangulation or choking, incestuous relations, or adults portraying children under 16 will become criminal offences in England and Wales. The measure follows a 2025 review led by Baroness Gabby Bertin, which found that strangulation scenes are widespread on popular sites.
In the summer of 2026, two studies — by Kathy Niakan's group in Cambridge and Dieter Egli's group at Columbia University — applied base editing to human embryos. The method is considered more precise and safer than classic CRISPR-Cas9, but mosaicism has not been reduced to zero, and ethical questions — the boundary between therapy and enhancement, consent, stigmatization — remain open. No country permits heritable changes.
Uzbekistan's Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services has put up for public discussion a draft government resolution on raising heating and hot water supply tariffs for the population across the country from November 1, 2026. For consumers of Veolia Energy Tashkent, a 30% tariff increase is proposed: thermal energy — 203,636 soums per Gcal, heating — 314 soums per square meter per day, hot water by meter — 11,607 soums per cubic meter. The rationale is the gradual alignment of tariffs with cost price.
According to The New York Times, talks between US, Ukrainian and European representatives took place on Friday at a Miami golf club owned by Steve Witkoff, lasting about six hours. During the meeting, Witkoff left the talks to join as a third participant a phone call between Trump and Putin, during which, it is claimed, the US purchase of diesel fuel from Russia was discussed.
At London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, metagenomic testing was applied to 122 children in intensive care in 2024–2025: it detected about 90% of bacteria and viruses and all fungi, and in a quarter of cases it influenced antibiotic prescribing. The results are published in Lancet Microbe; the method is being rolled out in roughly 30 intensive care units across the UK.
Holland America Line will hold the Pan Am 100th Anniversary Legendary Voyage in 2027: 28 days from Miami across the Caribbean and Central America, lectures by historians and a former pilot, Pan Am-style menus and a recreated Clipper Club.
The State Security Service of Uzbekistan reported the interception of an attempt to sell 7,400 counterfeit US dollars brought from Turkey in Samarkand. Three residents of the Taylak district, aged 30, 24, and 23, handed over counterfeit $100 bills to an undercover buyer for 44 million soums—approximately half their face value. Two of the detainees have prior criminal records, and an investigation is underway.
The youth movement CJP, demanding electoral reform and the resignation of the election commission chief, announced a new demonstration at Central Park in Delhi on Friday. Police previously disrupted their mass action, and two leaders received five-day custody. Authorities closed the park for two days and warned of legal consequences, but movement founder Abhijit Dipke said he would not back down.
British newspapers on 16 October 2026 discuss a possible bank tax rise in the budget, a 'double' rise in energy bills, Lucy Powell's school reforms, salmon farmers switching to chicken feed and the first joint public appearance of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex in the UK.
In the South Ustyurt National Nature Park in September, near the border with Turkmenistan, a rare bat species — the Turkmen long-eared bat (Plecotus turkmenicus) — was recorded in Uzbekistan for the first time. Previously, the species was known only from data collected before 1970 and museum specimens. The discovery was made during an expedition under a project of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
On October 12, in Tashkent, composer, Honored Art Worker of Uzbekistan and professor Felix Yanov-Yanovsky died at the age of 92. The Union of Composers and Bastakors of Uzbekistan announced his death. He was the author of nine operas, four ballets, five symphonies and music for 60 films.
Uzbekistan's «Neftchi» lost 1:3 to Saudi Arabia's «Al-Nassr» in Riyadh. Cristiano Ronaldo scored the 981st goal of his career, and the visitors were left a man down after Ikrom Alijonov's red card.
The state's 49.07% stake in the charter fund of the UzXCMG joint venture has been put up for electronic auction on the E-auksion platform. The starting price of the stake is 140.53 billion soums, with the auction scheduled for October 19. The plant, founded in 2014 by Uzbekistan Railways and China's XCMG, improved its financial performance in 2025, but posted a loss again in the first quarter of 2026.
