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The UK government selected the Becketwell site in Derby for the rail body’s headquarters. Plans allow for up to 450 staff and up to 600 apprenticeships over four years.
The approval allows the Auckland quarry to access additional aggregate resources.
APEDA reported a first shipment of 1.755 metric tonnes of certified organic palmyra jaggery powder from Tamil Nadu to Bulgaria.
A framework unveiled by NITI Aayog on 15 October says India’s data-centre capacity has grown from about 375 MW in 2020 to around 1.5 GW currently.
Talks involving six ministers identified a project portfolio costing more than US$7 billion over five years.
Japan’s total population was estimated at about 122.69 million on 1 October 2026, according to an estimate released by the Statistics Bureau on 20 October. The monthly series is based on the national census and demographic movements recorded after it.
Three Jordanian mobile bakeries in Gaza produced more than 69 million loaves from the start of 2025 to mid-October 2026, Petra reported on 20 October, citing World Central Kitchen figures. The organisation oversees the bakeries’ operations in Gaza.
Ghana’s Gold Board said it bought 5.7 tonnes of artisanal and small-scale gold in October, of which 5.4 tonnes had been refined in the country.
Intel said WaitTime software uses Intel Xeon processors to measure queues and crowd movement at the University of Alabama’s football and basketball venues. At Bryant-Denny Stadium, the deployment processes visual data from sensors on local servers inside the venue.
The number of unemployed people aged 15–74 in Finland rose by 18,000 year on year to 283,000 in the third quarter of 2026. Employment edged up by 7,000 to 2.616 million.
Geostat published industrial, domestic-producer and external-trade price indices.
Georgia’s merchandise exports rose 19.6% year on year to USD 6,153.2 million in January–September 2026, according to Geostat’s preliminary figures released on 19 October. Imports increased 5.3% to USD 14,382.0 million, leaving a trade deficit of USD 8,228.8 million.
