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Belgian steeplechaser Tim Van de Velde won the 2025 International Fair Play Award after turning back during a World Athletics Championships heat in Tokyo to help injured Colombian rival Carlos San Martin across the finish line.
Australia became the first country to ban all social media accounts for children under 16, responding to growing evidence of harm from excessive screen time and online platforms.
Countries at the CITES wildlife-trade convention voted by consensus to grant all ten species of manta and devil rays Appendix I status — the strongest protection available — effectively banning international commercial trade in these ocean giants, whose numbers have plunged 80–99% in many regions.
After facing her darkest hours, one woman's story of recovery — fueled by the kindness of her community — became a powerful testament to how collective compassion can transform lives.
Google DeepMind marked five years since AlphaFold 2 solved a 50-year-old biology challenge, reporting use by over 3 million researchers across 190+ countries.
India captured the inaugural Blind Women T20 World Cup with an unbeaten campaign, defeating Nepal by seven wickets in the final at the P Sara Oval in Colombo, in a tournament co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka.
NASA and NOAA report that the 2025 Antarctic ozone hole was the fifth smallest since 1992, with its season ending nearly three weeks earlier than usual. Scientists credit the Montreal Protocol, which has cut ozone-depleting chemicals in the stratosphere by roughly a third from their 2000 peak. Full recovery remains on track for the late 2060s.
San Jose, California opened a 136-unit tiny home community on Cherry Avenue in November 2025 — its 11th temporary housing site of the year, on land partnered with Valley Water. The city has cut unsheltered homelessness by over 1,000 people since 2022, bucking a statewide rise.
A Stanford Medicine-led study found that blocking an aging protein regrows knee cartilage in old mice, with human tissue also responding to the treatment.
A new non-opioid pain reliever has been approved that reduces postoperative pain as effectively as opioids but without the risk of addiction.
Spanish artist Rosalía released LUX, a genre-bending album sung in 13 languages that critics hailed as one of the most ambitious and culturally rich records of 2025.
Cook County, Illinois — home to Chicago — has approved 7.5 million dollars in its 2026 budget to permanently fund guaranteed income, building on the Promise pilot that sent 500 dollars a month to thousands of low-income residents. Advocates call it a milestone for cash-based community support.
A major IBM study reveals that open-source AI is transforming the technology landscape in 2025, with smaller, more efficient models enabling businesses and researchers worldwide to harness powerful AI without massive budgets. Over 51% of organizations using open-source tools report positive ROI.
Tennis great Andy Murray's mother, Judy Murray, launched a leadership-through-sport program designed to build girls' confidence, agency and long-term engagement in physical activity.
After COP30 failed to mention fossil fuels, Colombia and the Netherlands led 25 nations in pledging to establish their own roadmap for abandoning coal, gas and oil.
French Polynesia has created the world's largest marine protected area, adding to a wave of new wildlife sanctuaries established across the globe in 2025.
Solar-powered cold storage units installed at the farm gate in India are helping smallholder farmers cut spoilage and avoid forced discount sales, addressing post-harvest losses that reach up to a third of some harvests.
IBM introduced its 120-qubit Nighthawk processor and an experimental chip called Loon, and reported decoding quantum errors in real time, a key step toward fault-tolerant computing.
Romanian deeptech company .lumen won a CES 2026 Innovation Award for glasses that replicate a guide dog's role, using cameras, spatial AI and haptic feedback to help blind and low-vision people navigate independently.
WHO’s Global Tuberculosis Report 2025, released on 12 November 2025, showed TB cases and deaths both declining — the first drop in new cases in three years — with strong regional gains and high treatment success rates.
Camera traps in Kenya’s Chyulu Hills captured a critically endangered black rhino calf at the side of its mother, Namunyak — whose name means “blessed” in Maa. The birth, the second in two years, brings this genetically distinct population to nine and is hailed as a conservation success.
Once the world's most endangered cat with just a few hundred individuals, the Iberian lynx has rebounded to several thousand thanks to dedicated conservation programs across Spain and Portugal.
Researchers at the Arc Institute developed bridge recombinases, a revolutionary gene-editing tool that can insert or replace nearly 1 million DNA bases — far surpassing CRISPR's capabilities.
Astronaut Sunita Williams, stranded on the ISS due to technical issues, broke the women's record for total spacewalk time with 62 hours outside the station.
Meta released Omnilingual ASR, an open-source speech recognition suite covering 1,600+ languages, including over 500 never before served by any ASR system, under a permissive license.
A systematic review of 104 studies across 22 countries, published in late 2025 and named the Nutrition Society’s Paper of the Month, found that closer adherence to a Mediterranean diet was consistently linked to lower depression, anxiety and stress.
Wandercraft's Atalante X, a hands-free self-balancing robotic exoskeleton, won its second FDA clearance, expanding use to people with spinal cord injuries from C4 to L5 and to those with multiple sclerosis.
Young voters powered a wave of civic engagement in 2025 US elections, driving turnout to its highest levels in decades and reshaping the political landscape.
Australia announced it will provide at least three hours of free solar-generated electricity per day to all households — even those without solar panels — thanks to massive renewable energy capacity.
Despite devastating losses, bereaved families from both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are building peace where politics has failed, recognizing their 'shared colour of tears'.
After more than two decades of construction, Egypt fully opened the Grand Egyptian Museum near the Giza pyramids, displaying the complete Tutankhamun collection together for the first time since 1922.
