Ukraine fired cruise missiles at a shipyard on the east coast of the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula, damaging a ship and causing debris to fall on a dock, Russia said yesterday.

Thousands took to the streets of Berlin yesterday in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza amid ongoing bombardments by Israel after the deadly Hamas attack on its territory on October 7.

Italian police yesterday said they had arrested a Bangladesh citizen suspected of belonging to a Pakistani Al-Qaeda-linked group who was studying military tactics and publishing incendiary videos online.

A group of UN-mandated human rights experts, including the special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, said Thursday “time is running out to prevent genocide and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza”, which Israel called Hamas “propaganda”.

Scientists has proposed a novel idea that could solve two of the world’s mysteries at once -- one that passes over our heads every night, and one that sits far below our feet.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday signed a law revoking Russia’s ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.

Countries including the UK, United States and China yesterday agreed the “need for international action” as political and tech leaders gathered for the world’s first summit on artificial intelligence (AI) safety.

Plastic litter in rivers might be allowing dangerous pathogens to hitch-hike downstream, a new study published yesterday found.

Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid bigger than Mount Everest smashed into Earth, killing off three quarters of all life on the planet -- including the dinosaurs. This much we know.

French police yesterday shot and seriously wounded an unarmed woman who was making threats at a train station in Paris during morning rush hour, police and prosecutors said..

Russia yesterday blamed “external interference” for an anti-Israel riot that closed an airport in the Muslim-majority region of Dagestan the previous day.

A Reuters journalist killed in southern Lebanon two weeks ago and others wounded in the same incident were deliberately targeted, a Reporters Without Borders investigation released on Sunday said.

The United Nations said yesterday it was concerned that war crimes were being committed on both sides in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Global media outlets are facing near-unprecedented challenges in their coverage of the Israel-Hamas war as conflicting propaganda, social media pressure and charged public opinion require them to exercise extreme caution.

Scientists have discovered a vast, hidden landscape of hills and valleys carved by ancient rivers that has been “frozen in time” under the Antarctic ice for millions of years.

The Kremlin said yesterday that it agreed with US President Joe Biden on the need to build a “new world order”, but that it disagreed that the United States was capable of building it.

Ukraine shot down 14 attack drones and a cruise missile fired by Russia at its south and east overnight, but debris from a downed drone damaged a warehouse at the Black Sea port of Odesa, officials said yesterday.

A crucial meeting on climate “loss and damages” ahead of COP28 ended in failure yesterday, with countries from the global north and south unable to reach an agreement, according to sources involved in the talks.

The amount of dust in the world’s air worsened in 2022, the United Nations said on Thursday, as it called for more research into how climate change may increase sandstorm hotspots.

Airports across France were evacuated yesterday after emailed “threats of attack”, a police source told AFP, the latest in a series of similar alerts.