WUJIANG – November 01, 2026 -- Wujiang District inaugurated the Fei Xiaotong Social Survey Center on November 1, marking the 90th anniversary of the sociologist's Jiangcun field study in Kaixiangong Village, Qidu Town, Jiangsu Province.

Wujiang and Chinese universities co-organize anniversary event under a modernization theme

The event, themed "Understanding China's Modernization Through Jiangcun," was organized by Wujiang District in partnership with several Chinese universities. The new center will extend Fei's fieldwork method of understanding people's lives from their own perspective through in-depth research.

ABU DHABI – November 01, 2026 -- Context Labs B.V. has secured a strategic equity investment from 22/x, the Abu Dhabi-based AI-native investment and incubation platform established by the Nowais family, and will open its regional headquarters in Abu Dhabi. The two companies also signed a long-term agreement to expand Context Labs across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The announcement did not specify the investment amount.

Agreement covers regional deployment of sovereign AI infrastructure

The headquarters will serve customers and partners across the GCC and wider MENA region. The agreement also provides for regional deployment of Context Labs' AI Data Infrastructure, including the AI Distillery for sovereign AI. The Distillery lets organizations run frontier and open-weight AI models inside their own data centers, on their own verified data.

Beijing – November 01, 2026 -- Nearly 200 Chinese and foreign guests will convene in the port city of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, from November 2 to 5 for the 2026 Global Mayors Dialogue·Ningbo, themed "Openness and Connectivity for Shared Opportunities."

Attendees include mayors of Ningbo's international sister cities, foreign diplomats in China and representatives of international organizations. Organizers aim to build consensus on openness and cooperation and to foster a new ecosystem of city-to-city collaboration.

Organizers structure the event as a "1+2+3" program

The format comprises one main event, two scenario-based dialogues and three civilization exchange activities. Discussions will center on sustainable development and green transition.

Tulsa – October 30, 2026 -- AAON, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAON), operating as The Aaon Group, will host a conference call and webcast on Monday, November 9, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. EST to discuss its third quarter 2026 financial results.

Results to be released after the market close on November 9

The company will publish its third quarter figures after U.S. market close. The call follows at 5:00 p.m. EST the same day.

Dial-in line offers Q&A, while the webcast is listen-only

Participants who want to ask questions must join by dial-in. Other listeners can attend through a listen-only webcast, which requires prior registration.

Two brands, AAON and BASX, serve commercial, industrial and data center customers

The Aaon Group supplies high-performance HVAC and thermal management equipment for commercial, industrial and data center environments. It sells under the AAON and BASX brands.

COLOGNE, GERMANY – November 1, 2026 – The Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Kunsthändler (BVDG) will present its NEW POSITIONS sponsorship program at ART COLOGNE 2026 with 18 promotional booths. Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer will visit the fair on November 5, speak at the opening and meet several artists and gallery owners personally during a tour. The program, run in cooperation with ART COLOGNE since 1980, aims to help younger artists enter the art market and attract collectors, museums and institutions. For galleries and buyers, the visit adds institutional visibility to the program.

Federal Culture Commissioner Joins the Opening and Tours the Booths

NEW POSITIONS is a sponsorship program supported by the federal government. This year it is distinguished by the visit of Wolfram Weimer, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM). He will speak at the opening of the art fair on November 5.

SPRINGFIELD – November 01, 2026 -- Baystate Health has folded Baystate Mercy Hospital, its joint venture affiliates and 45 Massachusetts medical group entities into one system, and switched the combined organization to a new Oracle Health Electronic Health Record (EHR) on the same day.

Baystate Health ran a seven-month integration program before the single-day cutover

Preparation covered the hospital and its affiliated clinics. It included moving care teams across the system onto one EHR and launching MyBaystate Health, a new patient portal. Baystate says the aim is to make health information available to providers coordinating care. CEO Peter D. Banko said the focus since April had been on Day 1 readiness for staff, patients and supporting systems.

Cologne – November 01, 2026 -- Regina Ziegler, the German film producer behind more than 500 film and television productions, died on November 1 in Berlin at the age of 82, public broadcaster WDR announced.

Ziegler founded her own production company in 1973

Born in 1944 in Quedlinburg, Ziegler worked as a production manager before launching her company in 1973. Over the following decades it produced titles including "Solo für Klarinette" with Corinna Harfouch and Götz George, "Der Verleger" with Heiner Lauterbach, and "Die große Flatter" with Richy Müller.

WDR co-productions covered socially relevant themes

WDR Director General Dr. Katrin Vernau said German film has lost one of its most influential figures of recent decades. She cited the WDR co-productions "Der Verleger" and "Jenseits der Mauer" as examples of Ziegler's socially relevant approach. The WDR series "Die Anrheiner", shot in Cologne, was a strong audience draw.

HYATTSVILLE – – November 01, 2026 -- Home Genius Exteriors is adding five locations across Ohio, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Delaware, extending its residential exterior remodeling network into the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast. The company describes itself as one of the fastest-growing exterior home improvement firms in the United States.

Four sites open November 1, Nashville follows on November 20

Four of the five locations open on November 1, 2026: Sylvania (serving Toledo), Ohio; Allentown (serving Lehigh Valley), Pennsylvania; Erie, Pennsylvania; and Dover, Delaware. The Nashville-area site, in Brentwood, Tennessee, opens on November 20, 2026.

Pennsylvania gets two of the five sites, Allentown and Erie. Ohio, Tennessee and Delaware each get one.

Mainz – November 01, 2026 -- Regina Ziegler, who built a catalogue of more than 500 national and international film and television productions over five decades, has died at the age of 82, ZDF announced.

Ziegler founded her own production company in Germany in the early 1970s

Born on March 8, 1944, Ziegler was the first woman in Germany to launch her own production company, in a male-dominated industry. Since 2000 she ran the company jointly with her daughter, Tanja Ziegler.

ZDF worked with Ziegler from 1979/80 onward

Ziegler first produced for the broadcaster in 1979/80 with the feature film "Fabian," based on a novel by Erich Kästner and directed by her husband, Wolf Gremm. Recent ZDF productions include "Die Wölfe" (2009), "Flaschenpost an meinen Mann" (2013), "Die Holzbaronin" (2013) and "Die Toten von Hameln" (2014).

Munich – November 01, 2026 -- German public broadcaster ARD and its film arm ARD Degeto have announced the death of producer Regina Ziegler, who founded her own production company in 1973 and built it into one of Germany's most significant independent producers over more than five decades.

Ziegler launched her company in 1973 in a male-dominated industry

When Ziegler founded her company, the film industry was far more male-dominated than it is today, according to ARD. The broadcaster credits her with building the business through persistence and an instinct for material and talent.