2025 Major League Baseball season In baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 5–4 in Game 7 to win the World Series.
2025 Tanzanian general election Incumbent Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party is declared the winner of the general election with 97% of the vote, amidst protests by the opposition.
Shootout Two people are killed and six others are injured, including two suspects, in a shootout in Vorizia, Crete, Greece. Police say that it was caused by a long-standing feud between two local families.
Smoking in the Maldives In the Maldives, people born since 2007 are permanently banned from buying or using tobacco, making it the first country in the world to impose a lifelong smoking ban from a certain age.
Mexican drug war Carlos Manzo, mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, is assassinated during Day of the Dead festivities.
2025 Cambridgeshire train stabbing Eleven people are injured, including nine in life-threatening conditions, in a mass stabbing attack on a London North Eastern Railway passenger train in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England. Two suspects are arrested.
Avalanche Five people are killed and two others are injured in an avalanche on the Vertainspitze mountain in the Ortler Alps in South Tyrol, Italy.
Landslide A landslide triggered by heavy rain kills at least 21 people and leaves 30 others missing in Rift Valley Province, Kenya.
Waldo's At least 23 people are killed and eleven others are injured in a fire and explosion at a Waldo's store in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
Pope Leo XIV Pope Leo XIV of the Catholic Church declares Saint John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church, one of 38, and a co-patron of Catholic education.
Grand Egyptian Museum The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, Egypt, officially opens to the public following long delays.
Sudanese civil war At least 12 people are killed and several others are seriously injured in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on two displaced civilian shelters in South Kordofan, Sudan.
Israel–Hezbollah conflict Four people are killed and three injured in an Israeli airstrike on a vehicle in Kfar Reman, Lebanon.
Boko Haram insurgency The United States threatens to carry out attacks in Nigeria due to continuous attacks against Christians by Boko Haram and ISWAP.
2025 United States military strikes on alleged drug traffickers Three people are killed in an American airstrike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea.
2025 Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict The Pakistani government partially reopens the Torkham border crossing with Afghanistan to allow Afghan refugees to flee home, while all remaining restrictions on cross-border movement stay banned, following an agreement to maintain a ceasefire.
Gaza war Israel Defense Forces Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who served as Military Advocate General, resigns after leaking a surveillance video to the media showing the gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman detention camp in August last year.
The remains of three bodies Hamas gave to Israel overnight are found to have been of known hostages, leaving eight bodies of deceased hostages still remaining in Gaza.