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Airbus has ordered urgent software fixes on about 6,000 A320-family jets worldwide—more than half of its single-aisle fleet—after investigators found that intense solar radiation can corrupt data in the ELAC flight-control computer, a flaw linked to an October 30 JetBlue A320's sudden mid-air nosedive that injured at least 15 people, triggering emergency airworthiness directives from European and US regulators, three-hour-per-plane software reversions or hardware swaps before passenger flights, and widespread cancellations during peak Thanksgiving travel.

Apple is finalizing a $1 billion annual deal to integrate Google's 1.2 trillion-parameter Gemini AI model into a major Siri overhaul launching around March 2026 with iOS 26.4, internally codenamed Project Glenwood and Linwood, led by Vision Pro creator Mike Rockwell and software chief Craig Federighi, replacing Siri's current limited capabilities by having Gemini handle summarization and planning functions while running on Apple's Private Cloud Compute servers to preserve privacy, representing a strategic shift after evaluating OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude, with Apple planning to eventually transition to its own 1 trillion-parameter model by late 2026.

Delhi's air quality has deteriorated dramatically throughout November 2025, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) remaining in the 'very poor' to 'severe' range for over 23 consecutive days, peaking at 560 on November 12 and regularly breaching 400 in early November, forcing the government to invoke Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) restrictions including school closures, construction bans, and vehicle restrictions, as authorities blame stubble burning from neighboring states, vehicular emissions, and unfavorable meteorological conditions, with health experts warning that prolonged exposure equivalent to smoking 8.5 cigarettes daily risks respiratory and cardiac complications.

Hayli Gubbi volcano in Ethiopia's Afar region erupted on November 23, 2025, for the first time in nearly 12,000 years, launching a 45,000-foot ash plume that drifted across the Red Sea to Yemen, Oman, Pakistan, and India, disrupting flights and covering villages in the remote Afdera district with volcanic ash that affected homes and livestock, prompting authorities to dispatch mobile medical services while satellites tracked the 3,700-kilometer sulfur dioxide cloud in what scientists classify as a sub-plinian eruption within the Erta Ale volcanic range.

President Trump signed an Executive Order on November 24, 2025 launching the Genesis Mission, a $1 billion annual national AI-driven scientific research initiative led by the Department of Energy that aims to double American research productivity within a decade by harnessing supercomputers, federal datasets, and national laboratories to accelerate breakthroughs in energy, biotechnology, and national security, modeling its urgency on the Manhattan Project while competing with China for global AI dominance and demonstrating initial capability within nine months.

A catastrophic fire erupted at Wang Fuk Court housing complex in Tai Po, Hong Kong on November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM, killing at least 146 people—Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in over 70 years—after combustible green mesh scaffolding and polystyrene foam panels used during mandatory renovations ignited rapidly and spread across seven of eight 31-storey towers through wind-driven flames that firefighters struggled to contain on upper floors, with 11 arrests made on corruption and manslaughter charges, 89 bodies unidentified, approximately 40 people still missing, and 79 injured as the government halted 28 to 30 construction projects for safety audits.

OpenAI has launched group chats in ChatGPT, a new feature now rolling out globally to all logged‑in Free, Go, Plus and Pro users, allowing up to 20 people to collaborate in a single conversation with ChatGPT, which can join in selectively, be tagged for help, follow context, and respond with text, images or file-based answers, while keeping each user's personal memory private and offering controls for invites, participant management, custom instructions per group, and parental/teen safety protections.

A Hyundai i20 car exploded near Red Fort Metro Station in Delhi on November 10, 2025, at 6:52 PM, killing at least 15 people and injuring over 20 others in a terrorist attack that the Indian government declared part of a larger conspiracy; the vehicle, owned by Dr. Umar Mohammad, had been parked for more than three hours before detonating high-grade explosives, prompting Prime Minister Modi to vow that perpetrators 'will not be spared' and triggering a National Investigation Agency probe that invoked anti-terrorism laws.

Cyclone Ditwah struck Sri Lanka on November 27, 2025, killing at least 193 people and displacing 147,000 others, prompting Prime Minister Modi to immediately launch Operation Sagar Bandhu, dispatching two Indian Navy ships (INS Vikrant and INS Udaigiri) with 27 tonnes of relief supplies, C-130J and IL-76 aircraft carrying 21 tonnes of aid plus 80 NDRF personnel, and Chetak helicopters conducting rooftop rescues, while pledging further assistance under India's Neighbourhood First policy and Vision MAHASAGAR framework.

President Trump announced on November 27, 2025 a permanent pause on migration from 'third-world countries,' vowing to halt new arrivals from poorer nations indefinitely after a National Guard shooting incident allegedly involving an Afghan national, citing national security concerns while simultaneously pausing all asylum decisions and pledging to 'denaturalize' migrants who undermine domestic tranquility and remove foreign nationals deemed non-compatible with Western civilization under his sweeping immigration overhaul that prioritizes merit-based immigration and economic contribution over family reunification.