International climate pledges remain far off track to limit temperature rises to 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to a UN report released yesterday, less than two weeks ahead of high-stakes negotiations to tackle global warming.

A Thai celebrity media tycoon and transgender rights advocate has bought the Miss Universe Organization for $20 million, marking the first time the beauty pageant organiser will be owned by a woman, her company said on Wednesday.

Iranian security forces opened fire at mourners who gathered in Mahsa Amini's Kurdish home town of Saqez to mark 40 days since she died in police custody, a witness said on Wednesday, while state media said people at the cemetery had clashed with riot police.

The UK's eagerly-awaited budget plan has been postponed until November 17, the office of new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday, reports AFP.

Rishi Sunak took charge yesterday as Britain’s third premier this year with his Conservative Party floundering in the polls and daunting challenges ahead.

Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister vessel of the iconic 17th-century warship “Vasa”, which sank on its maiden voyage, the Swedish Museum of Wrecks said on Monday.

Rishi Sunak yesterday became Britain’s third prime minister this year and the first person of colour to lead the former imperial power, vowing to lead the country out of a profound economic crisis and rebuild trust in politics.

Two people were killed on Monday and several were injured by a gunman who opened fire at a high school in the midwestern US city of St. Louis, police said.

Iranian students yesterday protested at multiple universities, defying a bloody crackdown as tensions mount on the eve of planned ceremonies marking 40 days since Mahsa Amini’s death.

Thirty people have been killed and several more have been injured in a wave of intercommunal violence on Papua New Guinea’s remote Trobriand Islands, police said yesterday.

Russia doubled down on a warning that Ukraine is preparing to use a “dirty bomb” on its own territory, an assertion dismissed by the West and Kyiv as false, and was expected to bring the issue to the UN Security Council later yesterday.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi yesterday accused the United States of “dragging their feet” instead of making a decision to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni confirmed her government’s support for the European Union, Nato and Ukraine yesterday in her first address to parliament, one month after her far-right party won a historic election victory.

Ashton Carter, who served as US secretary of defense during Barack Obama’s administration, has died at age 68, his family said.

An Iranian man nicknamed the “dirtiest man in the world” for not taking a shower for decades has died at the age of 94, state media reported yesterday.

Six Palestinians were killed in sweeping Israeli raids yesterday in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, in what the army described as an assault targeting the emerging “Lion’s Den” armed group.

Rishi Sunak became Britain's prime minister on Tuesday following a meeting with King Charles.

Rishi Sunak on Tuesday became Britain's third prime minister this year and the first person of colour to lead the former imperial power, vowing to mend its stricken finances after Liz Truss lasted just 49 days.

A 19-year-old gunman opened fire at a high school in St. Louis, Missouri, on Monday, killing two people and injuring seven others before officers fatally shot the suspect, the city's police commissioner said.

Rishi Sunak will become Britain's first prime minister of colour on Tuesday after he won the race to lead the Conservative Party, tasked with steering a deeply divided country through an economic downturn set to leave millions of people poorer.