Britain's new aircraft carrier the HMS Queen Elizabeth made a stop in Singapore on Monday, part of a move to reassert itself globally and boost its military presence in Asia amid rising competition among major powers.

Iraq said on Monday it has detained a top leader of the Islamic State group and a longtime al-Qaida operative in a cross-border operation.

Germany's largest mosque will be permitted to broadcast the call to prayer over loudspeakers on Friday afternoons, after an agreement between the city of Cologne and the Muslim community to ease restrictions, the city said on Monday.

Economists David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel economics prize on Monday for pioneering the use of "natural experiments" to understand the causal effects of economic policy and other events.

Initial turnout in Iraq's parliamentary election on Sunday was 41 percent, the electoral commission said, in a sign of dwindling trust in political leaders although participation was not nearly as low as election officials had earlier feared.

A US Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with selling secret information about nuclear submarines to an undercover FBI agent who posed as an operative for a foreign country, the Justice Department said on Sunday.

The son of an Indian minister has been arrested on preliminary charges of murder, police said yesterday, a week after the death of eight people during a farmers’ protest sparked national outrage. 

The global community must invest much more and raise the scale and speed of its pledges to protect nature and prevent species loss,

1138 - Earthquake in Aleppo, Syria, kills an estimated 230,000.

After the crimes against humanity of the Shoah (Holocaust), it has been possible to reset and to reestablish relations. … I want to use this opportunity to emphasise that the topic of Israel’s security will always be of central importance and a central topic for every German government.

The Taliban have warned the United States not to “destabilise” the regime during their first face-to-face talks since the US withdrawal, as a deadly sectarian bombing raised further questions about their grip on power. 

El Salvador will invest some of the $4 million gains it has obtained from its bitcoin operations to build a veterinary hospital, President Nayib Bukele said on Saturday.

China will continue to curb monopolistic behaviors of internet platform companies and strengthen the protection of consumer privacy and data security, central bank governor Yi Gang said.

Elated Sydneysiders were emerging from almost four months of “blood, sweat and no beers” early today as a long coronavirus lockdown was lifted in Australia’s largest city.

Iran has enriched more than 120 kilogrammes of 20-percent enriched uranium, the head of the country’s atomic energy agency said on state television Saturday evening.

A plane carrying a group of parachute jumpers crashed in the Russian region of Tatarstan yesterday, killing 16 people and injuring six, the Emergencies Ministry said.

Five people have been killed in a car-bomb attack targeting the governor of Aden, the seat of Yemen’s internationally recognised government,

Lee Jae-myung became the presidential candidate for South Korea's ruling party on Sunday, hoping to overcome a property scandal and gather national support while conservative opponents trade barbs over anal acupuncture and fortune-tellers.

A car bomb targeting the governor's convoy shook Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Sunday killing at least four people, a Reuters witness and a security source said.

Guatemalan police said on Saturday (Oct 9) they had rescued 126 mostly Haitian migrants abandoned inside a shipping container as they hoped to travel to Mexico and on to the United States.