1938 - After signing the Munich agreement with Hitler in Germany, Neville Chamberlain returned to Britain and declared that there would be “peace with honour for our time”.

An aide dubbed the “Music Man” was tasked with playing calming tunes for Donald Trump when he went into rages, according to a scandal-filled book by a former press secretary.

A Bangladeshi national was sentenced to 46 months in prison for trafficking undocumented Bangladeshi individuals from Mexico into the United States, according to the US Department of Justice.

China's vast Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is in danger of losing momentum as opposition in targeted countries rises and debts mount, paving the way for rival schemes to squeeze Beijing out, a new study showed on Wednesday.

CNN said it is preventing Australians from accessing its Facebook Inc pages after a court ruled that publishers can be liable for defamation in public comment sections and the social media firm refused to help it disable comments in the country.

The US Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday denied US landing rights for a charter plane carrying more than 100 Americans and US green card holders evacuated from Afghanistan, organisers of the flight said.

At least 24 prisoners were killed in a battle between inmates equipped with firearms and grenades at a prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador, officials said Tuesday.

A 36-year-old delivery driver appeared in court in Britain yesterday, charged with the murder of a young primary school teacher whose death sparked renewed calls to improve women’s safety.

A 1970 tape of John Lennon singing a hitherto unheard song called “Radio Peace” and expressing frustration at his Beatles image to a group of Danish schoolboys goes under the hammer in Copenhagen.

A Swiss investigation into the 1990 killing of Iranian opposition figure Kazem Rajavi must reopen, after a court ordered genocide and crimes against humanity charges added to the probe.

The United Nations has condemned the violence and “xenophobia” targeting mainly Venezuelan undocumented migrants in Chile over the weekend, carried out by locals fed up with their presence in the country.

President Joe Biden’s top military leaders are expected to face some of the most contentious hearings in memory this week over the chaotic end to the war in Afghanistan, which cost the lives of U.S. troops and civilians and left the Taliban back in power.

Recent emergency measures strengthening the powers of Tunisian President Kais Saied were aimed at ensuring “an authentic and peaceful democracy” in the country, its foreign minister told world leaders Monday.

US pharmaceutical company Pfizer said Monday it had begun a clinical trial to test an influenza vaccine designed with the same mRNA technology behind its successful Covid-19 shot.

The number of murders in the United States rose by around 30 percent in 2020 over the previous year, to some 21,500, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Monday.

The World Health Organization’s regional director for Africa said yesterday that the agency was “heartbroken” by the findings of an independent commission on sex abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

1923 - Britain began to govern Palestine under a mandate from the League of Nations.

The British government says it is putting the military on standby as part of further measures to address a supply chain crisis which has led fuel pumps to run dry amid panic-buying by motorists.

Greta Thunberg is not very optimistic about the climate talks held in Italy this week, the environmental youth activist said as she arrived at the venue in Milan yesterday.

To achieve justice in the killing of journalists, three leading press freedom groups have established a People's Tribunal to investigate their murders and hold governments accountable, reports Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).