Template:In the news
- British actor Patrick Stewart (pictured) dies at the age of 86.
- In baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers defeat the Tampa Bay Rays to win the World Series.
- At least 69 people are killed in a collision between two high-speed trains in Toledo province, Spain.
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is re-elected President of Brazil.
- In the Serbian parliamentary election, the Student List wins a majority of seats, defeating former president Aleksandar Vučić and his Serbian Progressive Party.
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Main page template. "In the news" mentions and links to entries of timely interest – encyclopedia articles that have been updated to reflect an important current event – rather than conventional news items. To prevent vandalism on the Main Page, it is a permanently protected template. See [[Wikipedia:In the news]] for more details.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
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| No 'Current events' link | nocurrenteventslink | Removes the link to [[Portal:Current events]]. This is used on the current events page to hide the link there
| Boolean | optional |