While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Nov 15, 2026

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While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Nov 15, 2026. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Travellers wait in line at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Nov 14 in New York. Flight cancellations and delays continue into the weekend following a nationwide FAA groundstop.

Weary travellers braced for more flight disruptions on Nov 14 as service resumed from US airports after an hours-long stoppage that the Trump administration blamed on faulty equipment or an error by a contractor tasked with switching out old copper wire communication lines.

The Nov 13 nationwide ground stop – meaning no planes can take off – sparked widespread chaos and left hundreds of thousands of passengers in limbo, with some pulled off planes moments before departure by airline staff who appeared in the dark about unfolding events.

“Tired. Exhausted. Frustrated. Yeah, you know, it’s just a mess, right?” Lisa Beraid, 48, who works for an insurance company, told AFP, as she waited for a flight the morning of Nov 14 at New York’s La Guardia airport.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) chief Bryan Bedford said that 12,000 flights were cancelled on Nov 13 and between four and five thousand flights out of 41,000 scheduled for Nov 14 were likely to be cancelled as well.

A teenage pop star from the Philippines won the first Asia edition of Eurovision on Nov 14 after a night of power ballads, pop-dance hits and pyrotechnics from the makers of the cult European kitsch fest.

Carmelle, 19, was crowned queen of the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest Asia in Bangkok for her performance of Sobra-Sobra (Too Much), a shoutout to strong women.

Hosts Thailand finished a close second, followed by Vietnam, Malaysia and Laos, with Nepal, Cambodia and Bangladesh languishing at the bottom of the points table.

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft on Nov 14 returned from its longest flight in orbit yet to the Texas launch tower it was launched from a day prior, demonstrating the first key recovery of the rocket system’s centrepiece vessel in the company’s decade-long effort to develop a fully reusable rocket.

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