Coverage tracker
The most covered news stories, 26 October to 1 November 2026
FTMQ World reads 7,965 headlines from 867 outlets a week. These are the stories the most of them covered, and the outlet that had each one first.
- 1Aleksandar Vucic Concedes Defeat in Serbian Parliamentary Elections
24 outlets · first: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Sun 08:57 UTC · Elections Abroad
- 2Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic concedes election to student movement
21 outlets · first: South China Morning Post, Sun 08:53 UTC · Top World News
- 3Noah Kahan announces 31 date stadium tour for 2027
11 outlets · first: University of Texas Athletics, Thu 14:02 UTC · Top World News
- 4Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado returns from exile
8 outlets · first: BBC Latin America, Sun 16:21 UTC · Top World News
- 5Flávio Bolsonaro lands in Miami after leaving Brazil following election defeat
7 outlets · first: Al Jazeera English, Wed 14:32 UTC · Top World News
- 6King Charles begins Caribbean tour amid calls for slavery reparations
6 outlets · first: Al Jazeera English, Tue 14:05 UTC · Top World News
- 7Christine Lagarde announces early departure from European Central Bank
6 outlets · first: Deutsche Welle World, Thu 10:33 UTC · Top World News
- 8Spain begins official probe into fatal high speed train crash
5 outlets · first: Al Jazeera English, Wed 11:02 UTC · Top World News
- 9British actor Patrick Stewart dies at home aged 86
5 outlets · first: Euronews Election News, Thu 20:08 UTC · Top World News
- 10Bulgaria presidential election moves to run off after low turnout
4 outlets · first: The Sofia Globe, Sun 15:05 UTC · Top World News
- 11UN warns of ethnic cleansing as thousands displaced in Hebron
4 outlets · first: UN News, Mon 12:00 UTC · Diplomacy
- 12Vladimir Putin to meet Iranian president and Qatari emir in Moscow
4 outlets · first: Anadolu Ajansı, Mon 13:24 UTC · Diplomacy
- 13Flavio Bolsonaro arrives in Florida and claims leadership of Brazil
4 outlets · first: Euronews Europe, Wed 11:14 UTC · Top World News
- 14Canada and European Union open summit in Montreal to boost ties
4 outlets · first: BBC US and Canada, Thu 09:51 UTC · Diplomacy
- 15Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta announces permanent closure amid state pressure
4 outlets · first: Guardian Europe, Fri 09:05 UTC · Diplomacy
- 16Harry Kane and Alexia Putellas Win 2026 Ballon d'Or Awards
3 outlets · first: Al Jazeera English, Mon 17:00 UTC · Top World News
- 17Israeli exit polls show narrow lead for opposition over Netanyahu camp
3 outlets · first: Al Jazeera English, Tue 19:28 UTC · Elections Abroad
- 18Senegal Hosts Africa First Youth Olympic Games in Dakar
3 outlets · first: The Rio Times, Fri 10:09 UTC · Top World News
- 19Hundreds of thousands protest high living costs across France
3 outlets · first: Politico Europe, Sat 17:33 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 English5
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty1
- South China Morning Post1
- University of Texas Athletics1
- BBC Latin America1
- Deutsche Welle World1
- Euronews Election News1
- The Sofia Globe1
- UN News1
- Anadolu Ajansı1
Busiest outlets
Headlines published in the feeds we read.
- The Rio Times766
- Al Jazeera English749
- South China Morning Post603
- USGS Earthquakes456
- AllAfrica News454
- France 24 English412
- Middle East Eye380
- Euronews Election News337
- GDACS Disasters250
- Al-Monitor204
Use these numbers
Free to quote and chart, with a link to this page. The data is a download: CSV.
Source: FTMQ World coverage tracker, 26 October to 1 November 2026, https://world.ftmq.com/coverage/2026-10-26
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.