Europe / United Kingdom · Conflict & Security

British-Iranian man arrested over RAF Fairford incident

Rank
Ran: 2d
Updated: 2d ago
Final
Outlets: 84
Regions: 4
Countries: 49
Languages: 28

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Global News, 30 Sept, 16:59 UTC.
Second region: International, with Politico Europe.
Second country: Bangladesh, with The Business Standard.
Fastest hour: +32 outlets from 1 Oct, 16:43 UTC.
Last article: 84 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 49 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. 3 international outlets publish from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

17%17%50%13%

Americas 14 outlets · 6 countries · 17%
Asia-Pacific 14 outlets · 12 countries · 17%
Europe 42 outlets · 24 countries · 50%
Middle East 11 outlets · 6 countries · 13%
International 3 outlets · 3%

First movers

Global News 30 Sept, 16:59 UTC
Politico Europe +39m
The Business Standard +1h 35m
Clarín +2h 20m
Der Standard +11h 2m

Last to join

CNN Brasil 2 Oct, 15:22 UTC
Neue Zürcher Zeitung 2 Oct, 13:42 UTC
Utusan Malaysia 2 Oct, 11:00 UTC
TVN24 2 Oct, 07:55 UTC
El País (UY) 2 Oct, 06:05 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 84 outlets in 49 countries, across 4 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 84 outlets, 3 state-owned, 9 public-service, 72 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 6: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Peru, United States, Uruguay. Asia-Pacific 12: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand. Europe 24: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 6: Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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: Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Ukrainian, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article Global News, 30 Sept 2026, 16:59 UTC. First seen 30 Sept 2026, 18:00 UTC. Last seen 3 Oct 2026, 10:08 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 Europe, United Kingdom. Topic Conflict & security. Hard news Judged hard news. On 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: None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. 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.
Chain: Continued by Dual UK-Iranian national released on bail over RAF Fairford incident. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
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

1 Oct 2026 5 56.74 63 41 63 41 4.0

2 Oct 2026 17 32.92 70 45 9 9 4.0

3 Oct 2026 27 23.58 84 49 1 1 4.0

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How this was measured

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Started 30 Sept, 18:00 UTC · Updated 3 Oct, 10:08 UTC

Covered by 84 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
1 Oct 2026	5	56.74	63	41	63	41	4.0
2 Oct 2026	17	32.92	70	45	9	9	4.0
3 Oct 2026	27	23.58	84	49	1	1	4.0

Covered by 84 outlets

Americas 14 outlets

Asia-Pacific 14 outlets

Europe 42 outlets

Middle East 11 outlets

International 3 outlets