Russia spoke of taking harsh retaliatory measures against Ukraine after two drones damaged buildings in Moscow early yesterday, including one close to the Defence Ministry’s headquarters, in what it called a brazen act of terror.

Twitter launched its new logo yesterday, replacing the blue bird with a white X on a black background as the Elon Musk-owned company moves toward rebranding as X.

A three-day United Nations summit yesterday opened in Rome aimed at tackling a “broken” global food system where millions are starving, two billion are overweight or obese and the planet is suffering.

Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg was fined yesterday for disobeying police at a rally last month, but said she acted out of necessity due to the climate crisis.

At least 15 people were killed yesterday after a wooden boat sank off the coast of Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, search and rescue officials said, adding that all missing passengers had been accounted for.

North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast late yesterday, South Korea’s military said, hours after a US nuclear-powered submarine arrived at a naval base in the South.

A federal Indian minister’s house in Manipur’s capital Imphal was attacked today for the second time in two months as ethnic protests continue in the Indian state .

Israel’s parliament yesterday ratified the first bill of a judicial overhaul sought by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after last-gasp compromise efforts collapsed and failed to ease a constitutional crisis convulsing the country for months.

At least 15 people were killed and 19 more were missing on Monday after a wooden boat sank off the coast of Indonesia's Sulawesi island, search and rescue officials said

Nine people, including four soldiers, were killed Sunday evening when a civilian plane crashed in Sudan due to "technical" reasons, the army said, as the war in the east African country entered its 100th day

Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi proposed high-level talks between China, Japan and South Korea in a meeting with the Japanese foreign minister in Indonesia this month, Kyodo news agency reported yesterday.

At least 14 people were killed in Pakistan rains and landslide yesterday.

Five people died and two were missing, after heavy rain burst a river bank in a village near eastern China’s Hangzhou city on Saturday, flooding houses and carrying away people and their belongings, state media reported.

At least 30 people have been killed in Afghanistan after floods caused by a heavy monsoon rain spell washed away homes, a disaster ministry official said yesterday.

High winds forecast for yesterday were expected to hamper firefighters’ battle to contain a blaze burning out of control on the Greek island of Rhodes, sparking the biggest ever fire evacuation in Greece.

Twitter owner Elon Musk hinted late Saturday night that he may ditch the social media network’s blue cartoon bird branding -- and soon -- for an edgier logo based on an “everything app” he has long alluded to called only X.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that while Ukraine has reconquered half the territory that Russia initially seized in its invasion, Kyiv faced a “a very hard fight” to win back more.

At least 12 people were killed and up to 40 more are missing following a flash flood caused by torrential rain in central Afghanistan, a government spokesman said Sunday

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underwent surgery to implant a pacemaker on Sunday ahead of a debate in parliament on a controversial judicial overhaul bill that has brought tens of thousands of protesters to the streets.

Around 30,000 people were moved to safety on the Greek island of Rhodes where a wildfire burned on Saturday, while people in the southern United States struggled under a record-breaking heatwave