A malfunctioning South Korean ballistic missile blew up as it plowed into the ground Wednesday during a live-fire drill with the United States that was a reprisal for North Korea’s successful launch a day earlier of a weapon that flew over Japan and has the range to strike the US territory of Guam.

A trio of physicists yesterday won the Nobel Prize for discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics that have paved the way for quantum computers, networks and secure encrypted communication.

Former US president Donald Trump sued CNN for defamation on Monday, seeking $475 million in punitive damages.

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday won the United Nations refugee agency’s prestigious Nansen Award, receiving praise for her determination to protect asylum seekers while in office.

Turkish journalist organisations yesterday denounced a government-backed bill that could see offenders jailed for three years for spreading “disinformation”, saying it threatened freedom of expression.

Billionaire Elon Musk on Monday asked Twitter users to weigh in on a plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine that drew condemnation from Ukrainians, including President Zelensky.

Warning “no-one will escape” a worsening crisis, DR Congo has led calls for a surge in funding to brake global heating and fight its impacts at the start of pre-COP27 climate talks in Kinshasa.

The United States will impose “further costs” on Iran for its lethal crackdown on protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, President Joe Biden announced, drawing accusations of “hypocrisy” from Iran.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was set to finalise his plan to annex four Ukrainian regions yesterday, even as his forces are being pushed back by Ukraine on two separate battlefield fronts, shrinking the amount of seized territory he controls.

Solomon Islands said yesterday it had objected to the first draft of a US-Pacific partnership declaration because it was “not comfortable” with some indirect references to China.

At least 15 prisoners died Monday in the latest unrest inside Ecuador’s prison system, officials in the South American country reported.

This year’s Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their work on quantum information science.

Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day people evolved from extinct ancestors at the dawn of human history.

Former US president Donald Trump sued CNN for defamation on Monday, seeking $475 million in punitive damages and claiming the network had carried out a "campaign of libel and slander" against him.

Swedish paleogeneticist Svante Paabo, who won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for using DNA to reveal the link between humans and Neanderthals, drew early inspiration from his Nobel laureate father.

Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo yesterday won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day humans evolved from extinct ancestors.

The death toll from Hurricane Ian climbed past 80 as embattled residents in Florida and the Carolinas faced a recovery expected to cost tens of billions of dollars, and some officials faced criticism over their response to the storm.

At least 32 children died in Indonesia’s stadium crush, an official said yesterday as police moved to punish those responsible for one of the deadliest disasters in football history.

The second round of Brazil’s presidential election campaign kicked off yesterday after far-right President Jair Bolsonaro outperformed polling and robbed leftist ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of outright victory in the first round of voting.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei yesterday accused arch-foes the United States and Israel of fomenting the wave of nationwide unrest sparked by outrage over the death of Mahsa Amini.