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..

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.

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

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.

Russian lawmakers yesterday voted once more to revoke Moscow’s ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, moving the country another step closer to abandoning the landmark agreement.

The British Museum said yesterday it planned to digitise its entire collection, citing the need to secure public access to its vast catalogue after it reported in August that 2,000 artefacts had been stolen or were missing.

Reuters has called on Israel to conduct a quick and comprehensive investigation into cross-border fire that killed one of its journalists and wounded other reporters in Lebanon last week.

A man in a video on social media claimed that he was the assailant and that he was from Islamic State

France’s president yesterday called for a “ruthless” government response to those with “terrorist ideologies”, days after a teacher was stabbed to death in what he has called an act of “Islamist terror”.

As Israel prepares for a ground offensive into the Gaza Strip, the international community has mobilised to try to protect civilians and prevent the conflict spreading across the region.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Xi Jinping in China this week in a bid to deepen a partnership forged between the United States’ two biggest strategic competitors.

France was on high alert yesterday, after an attacker stabbed a teacher to death in what the president called an act of “Islamist terror,” with troops deployed and the Louvre museum evacuating visitors,