Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić has conceded defeat to the student-led protest movement in parliamentary elections.

The protests were initially triggered by a train station canopy collapse in the city of Novi Sad in 2024 that killed 16 people. Vučić called the snap elections in September, after almost two years of student-led demonstrations against perceived corruption and creeping authoritarianism.

Vučić, endorsed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and previously denouncing the student movement as a foreign-led attempt to unseat him, led the Balkan country for 14 years. Turnout was nearly 70 per cent, the highest since the break-up of Yugoslavia in 1992. Therefore, Belgrade’s streets erupted in celebration after Vučić’s announcement, with cars honking and students shouting “victory” and “he’s done”.

But a representative sample by the CESID-IPSPS pollsters showed the student’s candidate list would have 138 deputies, while Vučić’s SNS party garnered 104 seats in the 250-seat parliament. Their list of 250 largely unknown personalities includes university professors, actors and farmers, and is led by cardiologist Ilija Srdanovic, although it is still unclear who will be prime minister, so much remains unclear about how the student-backed candidates will fare.

Airbnb guests will no longer have to strip beds, wash dishes or remove rubbish when checking out, under new rules to be introduced next month.

The short-term rental platform announced the changes on its website, which applies to reservations booked on or after November 20. The changes come amid complaints from some travellers about being charged cleaning fees — which can cost hundreds of dollars — while also being expected to complete a list of chores, before leaving a property. While cleaning fees would not be abolished completely, hosts could not require guests to perform tasks that took “significant time and effort or would normally be done by a cleaner”.

The changes apply to Airbnb reservations covered by the platform’s global policy, including bookings in Australia.

Hosts will still be able to set house rules, including check-in and check-out times, limits on the number of guests, smoking restrictions, pet rules and quiet hours. Airbnb said guests were still expected to leave properties in a reasonable condition and may be held responsible for damage or excessive cleaning caused by their stay.

The changes have sparked anger among hosts, with some warning the crackdown could drive up costs and push smaller operators off the platform. A host from South Carolina in the US said the changes failed to recognise that many hosts were opening their own homes to guests. Some accused Airbnb management of being “so out of touch with the people cleaning vacation rentals”, while others said they had “never been so upset by a policy change”.

A judge has ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $US25 billion ($35.6 billion) after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook, marking the biggest fine ever against the tech giant.

The case was brought after political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica harvested Facebook data to generate targeted political ads during the 2016 election season.

Facebook’s deception was intentional and executives consistently misled users about how the platform worked, state District Court Judge Francis J Mathew wrote in his ruling on Wednesday local time. Jurors in September found Meta liable for more than 43 million violations of New Mexico consumer protection laws for making misleading public statements about how it handled users’ personal data. Meta also reported on Wednesday better-than-expected quarterly revenue of $US64.6 billion ($92 billion), ahead of Wall Street estimates of $US63.37 billion ($90.32 billion).

In one of the tech giant’s few wins, jurors found that the state did not prove Facebook made false claims about removing harmful content, including misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. During a video deposition, Zuckerberg also denied the state’s claims that Facebook profited off harmful content. Attorneys for the company said it had changed its policies since the lawsuit was filed in 2021 and that it caught and removed an estimated 99 per cent of the content that violates its standards.