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Egyptian man catches child falling from balcony in dramatic rescue

Rank
Running
40h
Updated
17h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
10
Regions
4
Countries
9
Languages
6

+0

Khaleej Times United Arab Emirates · English 4 Oct, 10:52 UTC

The earliest of 5 English reports

Read it also in Indonesia (1) · Lietuvių (1) · Tiếng Việt (1) · Türkçe (1) · Ελληνικά (1) · +4 languages

Read at Khaleej Times

How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 10 after 41 hours.

5 10
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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Khaleej Times, 4 Oct, 10:52 UTC.
  2. Second country: Qatar, with Al Jazeera.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with The Indian Express.
  4. Fastest hour: +4 outlets from 5 Oct, 09:03 UTC.
  5. Now: 10 outlets.

Where it travelled

42 of 42 hours

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The 9 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Africa 1 outlet · 1 country · 10%
  • Asia-Pacific 3 outlets · 3 countries · 30%
  • Europe 2 outlets · 2 countries · 20%
  • Middle East 4 outlets · 3 countries · 40%

First movers

  1. Khaleej Times 4 Oct, 10:52 UTC
  2. Gulf News +1h 45m
  3. Al Jazeera +11h 55m
  4. The Indian Express +21h 10m
  5. Dân Trí +22h 11m

Latest arrivals

  1. Tuko 5 Oct, 10:26 UTC
  2. ERT 5 Oct, 10:25 UTC
  3. 15min 5 Oct, 09:40 UTC
  4. Detik 5 Oct, 09:18 UTC
  5. Sözcü 5 Oct, 09:08 UTC

The figures

Coverage
10 outlets in 9 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 10 outlets, 2 state-owned, 1 public-service, 7 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Africa 1: Kenya. Asia-Pacific 3: India, Indonesia, Vietnam. Europe 2: Greece, Lithuania. Middle East 3: Qatar, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Greek, English, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Turkish, Vietnamese.
Timeline
Earliest article Khaleej Times, 4 Oct 2026, 10:52 UTC. First seen 4 Oct 2026, 11:10 UTC. Last seen 5 Oct 2026, 10:26 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Middle East, Egypt. Topic Culture. Hard news Judged not hard news. Left off the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.45, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
5 Oct 2026 101 7.22 10 9 7 7 4.1

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How this was measured

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Started 4 Oct, 11:10 UTC · Updated 5 Oct, 10:26 UTC

Covered by 10 outlets

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Africa 1 outlet

  • Tuko Kenya 5 Oct, 10:26 UTC
    Egyptian man catches toddler falling from 2nd-floor window in dramatic CCTV rescue

Asia-Pacific 3 outlets

  • Detik Indonesia 5 Oct, 09:18 UTC
    Viral Detik-detik Heroik Pemuda Selamatkan Bocah yang Jatuh dari Balkon
  • Dân Trí Vietnam 5 Oct, 09:03 UTC
    Ai Cập: Khoảnh khắc thanh niên lao tới, đỡ bé 5 tuổi rơi từ ban công
  • The Indian Express India 5 Oct, 08:02 UTC
    Egyptian shopkeeper catches child falling from balcony: ‘Had no time to think’

Europe 2 outlets

  • ERT Greece 5 Oct, 10:25 UTC
    Αίγυπτος: Άνδρας πιάνει στον αέρα παιδί που έπεσε από τον δεύτερο όροφο – Βίντεο
  • 15min Lithuania 5 Oct, 09:40 UTC
    Nufilmavo, kaip egiptietis per plauką spėjo sugauti iš balkono iškritusį berniuką

Middle East 4 outlets

  • Sözcü Turkey 5 Oct, 09:08 UTC
    İkinci kattan düşen çocuğu havada yakaladı
  • Al Jazeera Qatar 4 Oct, 22:47 UTC
    Man’s miraculous catch saves child after balcony fall in Egypt
  • Gulf News United Arab Emirates 4 Oct, 12:37 UTC
    Watch: Split-second catch saves child falling from balcony
  • Khaleej Times United Arab Emirates 4 Oct, 10:52 UTC
    Watch: Viral video shows Egyptian man catching child who fell from second floor
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