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Image: The Wales team that beat New Zealand's Original All Blacks in 1905 — via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) Wales produced one of the great upsets in rugby history on Saturday, beating New Zealand 35-28 at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff for their first victory over the All Blacks in 73 years. The match Wales last beat New Zealand 13-8 at Cardiff Arms Park on 19 December 1953. Saturday's win ended a run of 34 straight defeats against the All Blacks, according to the Associated Press. Scrum-half Tomos Williams scored after just two minutes, and captain Dewi Lake added a second try as Wales raced into a 14-0 lead. The sides were level 21-21 at half-time. Wales scored five tries in all, with fly-half Sam Costelow converting all five. New Zealand replied with four tries, including scores from Cortez Ratima, Wallace Sititi and Peter Lakai. The home side never trailed, but had to survive a relentless final 27 minutes as New Zealand pressed for a levelling score. Wal...

Image: An air traffic control tower (file photo) via Wikimedia Commons The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) lifted a nationwide ground stop on Friday evening, 13 November, more than four hours after ordering all departing flights to stay on the ground because of a communications failure in the air traffic control system. What happened The FAA began seeing unstable radar and communications data at air traffic control centres at about 3:36 p.m. Eastern Time, and issued the ground stop shortly afterwards. It was lifted at about 8:15 p.m. Eastern, according to USA Today. More than 3,500 aircraft were in the air when the stop was ordered, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. By 8 p.m., fewer than 400 planes were still flying. FlightAware counted more than 25,000 US flights delayed by 9:30 p.m. on Friday, and nearly 7,000 delayed or cancelled during the afternoon. Aviation analytics firm Cirium reported 827 diversions. It was only the second nationwide ground sto...

Image: Taiwan Navy frigate ROCN Lan Yang leaving Keelung Harbour via Wikimedia Commons China has carried out a large, unannounced military exercise across the western Pacific and around Taiwan, in what Taiwanese officials and analysts describe as a show of force designed to test its ability to cut the island off from outside help, according to Reuters. What happened Taiwanese security officials told Reuters on Friday that China had conducted the extensive exercise earlier in November, involving more than 100 Chinese naval and coast guard vessels at its peak. About 70 vessels remained in the first island chain by Friday, according to the report. Late last month, Taiwan said dozens of warships from China's Eastern, Northern and Southern Theatre commands had begun moving around the island and in the western Pacific, including towards the US territory of Guam. Taiwan called the deployment "an obvious threat". Unlike previous major Chinese drills, this one came with no ann...

Image: Measles cases in the United States, 1944–2007 (CDC chart) via Wikimedia Commons The United States has lost its measles elimination status after 26 years, following a surge in cases that has made 2026 the country's worst year for the disease since 1991, according to reports by The Wall Street Journal and CNN. The decision The decision was made by an independent commission of experts that reports to the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the body that grants and removes elimination status in the Americas. The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Friday 13 November and confirmed by CNN through a source close to the process. PAHO had not yet commented publicly. More than 5,400 measles cases have been reported in the US in 2026 — the highest annual total since 1991. The CDC had counted 5,182 confirmed cases as of 5 November. There have been 43 new outbreaks this year, and about one in nine reported cases has led to hospitalisation, accor...

Image: Microsoft logo via Wikimedia Commons Millions of people around the world were left without email and calendar access on Thursday and Friday after a major Microsoft 365 outage knocked out Outlook, Teams and several other services, according to Microsoft and multiple reports. What happened Problems began on Thursday 12 November, when Exchange Online users in the Americas started losing access to their mailboxes at about 16:17 UTC, according to Microsoft's incident updates. Within about two hours, Microsoft opened a wider incident, tracked as MO1550821, warning that users in any region could be affected. The monitoring site Downdetector logged more than 130,000 reports of Outlook problems in the United States at the peak, with reports coming from 74 countries. Affected services include Outlook and Exchange Online email, Teams calendar and meeting scheduling, SharePoint, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Planner, To Do, Intune and Power BI. Microsoft said core Teams messaging and meeti...

Pakistan in action against Australia at Dubai Sports City in 2009 (file photo). Image via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). Debutant fast bowler Saqib Khan took seven wickets on his Test debut to drag Pakistan back into the first Test against Sri Lanka in Rawalpindi on Thursday. The 31-year-old sparked a dramatic Sri Lankan collapse on the fourth morning, as the tourists slumped from their overnight 404 for four to 446 all out — a first-innings lead of just 12 runs. A dream debut Saqib finished with figures of 7 for 130 from 34 overs, according to reports from the match. He struck in the first over of the day, dismissing the well-set Dhananjaya de Silva for 167, and removed captain Kusal Mendis for 119 in the following over. He then ran through the lower order, taking the wickets of Sonal Dinusha (20), Milan Rathnayake (12), Lahiru Kumara (0) and Asitha Fernando (4). His first Test wicket had come on day three, when he dismissed the experienced Dinesh Chandimal just nine balls into his Te...