The wire
The world's most significant stories right now, ranked by measurement — not by an editor. Follow developing stories on the timelines, see the analytics boards on the dashboard, watch a topic or country with free email alerts, or see what the world is missing on underreported.
- 1About 400 French schools closed as some student protests turn violent
35 outletsfrom 8 countries2d agotone -9.25Francetimeline (3)
- 2Russian attacks kill 6 in Ukraine and damage Kyiv's Northern Bridge
42 outletsfrom 2 countries15h agotone -9.14Ukrainetimeline (3)
- 3North Korea says it conducted intermediate-range strategic missile drill
14 outletsfrom 5 countries7h agotone -3.58Korean PeninsulaSouth KoreaNorth Korea
- 4Ethiopian federal forces retake Mekelle airport from Tigrayan fighters, residents say
27 outletsfrom 3 countries18h agotone -5.59Ethiopia ConflictEthiopia
- 5Christa Pike on ventilator and unconscious after failed Tennessee execution
46 outletsfrom 3 countries2d agotone -5.10United Statestimeline (12)
- 7Omaha couple survives near drowning in basement
25 outletsfrom 1 country5h agotone -0.84United StatesGreece
- 8Rohingya - Myanmar and the Rare Earth
5 outletsfrom 5 countries5h agotone -3.85Critical MineralsChina
- 9Synthetic bee silk set to take sting out of wounds
59 outletsfrom 1 country11h agotone -3.75Australia
- 10Two Iranians appear in UK court over alleged plot to target Jews
4 outletsfrom 1 country4h agotone -7.04IranIsraelUnited Kingdomtimeline (3)
- 11Thousands pack arena in Belgrade as Serbia's leader Vucic launches prime minister bid
21 outletsfrom 2 countries10h agotone -3.94SerbiaChinaRussia
- 12As heat becomes more extreme, inmates are increasingly threatened by rising temperatures
41 outletsfrom 2 countries4d agotone -4.69United States
- 13Israeli strike kills five in Gaza, including four women, health officials say
11 outletsfrom 5 countries17h agotone -5.82Israel
- 16Hundreds gather at anti-migrant protests in two port cities
145 outletsfrom 1 country16h agotone -4.48United Kingdom
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- 18Drumcree standoff continues week after parade due to start
130 outletsfrom 1 country7h agotone -2.84United Kingdom
- 19Nolo becomes a Category 3 Hurricane in the remote Pacific Ocean
30 outletsfrom 3 countries1d agotone -6.78United StatesMexico
- 21The Supreme Court will hear a major climate change case involving a devastating Colorado wildfire
32 outletsfrom 1 country18h agotone -1.61United States
- 22Jharkhand: Sanjay Seth prays for speedy recovery of pilot Smit Machchhar in Ranchi
48 outletsfrom 22 countries14h agotone -3.66Saudi Arabia
- 23Trump rallies in Ohio to boost Jon Husted in a tight Senate race against Sherrod Brown
36 outletsfrom 2 countries10h agotone -0.93United States
How this page works
Stories the world's press is converging on — measured, not chosen. Every 15 minutes GDELT observes global news output; headlines covering the same story are grouped into one cluster (rewordings and syndicated variants collapse together), and related developments of one event nest under its lead story. Each headline links once to the original reporting. Ranking is a published formula, not an editor: outlet breadth (log-damped, weighted by a disclosed source-authority list), boosted when a story carries conflict, disaster, or diplomacy themes in its lede, a coded geopolitical event, or extracted casualty and protest figures — then decayed by time since last sighting over a rolling 72-hour window. Tone is the average sentiment of the cluster's articles. “From N countries” counts the distinct home countries of the covering outlets (mapped per domain from GDELT source-country data) and is shown only when enough of a cluster's outlets are mapped to state it honestly. No personalization — the ranking is the measurement, and the formula is open. Lead outlets classified as state-controlled media are labeled, using Wikipedia's perennial sources list (CC BY-SA) plus a small disclosed list of state wires; the label describes ownership, not accuracy, and state wires are already excluded from authority weighting.