Coverage tracker
The most covered news stories, 12 October to 18 October 2026
FTMQ World reads 4,103 headlines from 505 outlets a week. These are the stories the most of them covered, and the outlet that had each one first. This week is still running; the numbers are updated every hour.
- 1Houthi missile attack hits Yemeni presidential palace in Aden
8 outlets · first: Middle East Eye, Thu 15:20 UTC · Top World News
- 2Pope Leo XIV diagnosed with lung cancer following successful operation
7 outlets · first: South China Morning Post, Tue 20:04 UTC · Top World News
- 3Former gang leader sentenced to 40 years for Tupac Shakur murder
5 outlets · first: BBC US and Canada, Tue 19:27 UTC · Top World News
- 4Ukrainian man goes on trial in Germany over Nord Stream sabotage
5 outlets · first: Al Jazeera English, Wed 03:06 UTC · Top World News
- 5Minibus collision with train at Channel Tunnel terminal leaves 19 injured
5 outlets · first: Euronews Election News, Thu 20:15 UTC · Elections Abroad
- 6White House press secretary Katie Zacharia departs after less than a week
5 outlets · first: Euronews Europe, Fri 06:13 UTC · Elections Abroad
- 7Kenya confirms third Ebola case linked to Democratic Republic of Congo
4 outlets · first: GDACS Disasters, Thu 19:11 UTC · Top World News
- 8Shooting at Oregon elementary school leaves at least four dead
4 outlets · first: France 24 English, Thu 21:58 UTC · Top World News
- 9Russia detains Japanese journalist on espionage charges in Far East
3 outlets · first: Al Jazeera English, Tue 18:49 UTC · Diplomacy
- 10North Korea test fires submarine cruise missiles in East Sea
3 outlets · first: France 24 English, Wed 23:12 UTC · Top World News
First to the story
Outlets that had the most of the week’s widely covered stories before anyone else.
- Al Jazeera English2
- France 24 English2
- Middle East Eye1
- South China Morning Post1
- BBC US and Canada1
- Euronews Election News1
- Euronews Europe1
- GDACS Disasters1
Busiest outlets
Headlines published in the feeds we read.
- The Rio Times539
- Al Jazeera English368
- South China Morning Post283
- AllAfrica News247
- France 24 English238
- Middle East Eye237
- Euronews Election News215
- USGS Earthquakes194
- Al-Monitor111
- Politico Europe102
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Source: FTMQ World coverage tracker, 12 October to 18 October 2026, https://world.ftmq.com/coverage/2026-10-12
How it is counted: every report FTMQ World wrote that week is matched with the headlines from the outlets we follow that are about the same event (they share its names and its less common words), published within a day and a half of it. Aggregators that repeat other outlets’ headlines are not counted. Each outlet counts once per story; the first is the earliest such headline. Only outlets with feeds we read are counted, so this measures breadth of coverage, not every report there was.