The world must continue to extract oil and gas in order to sustain civilisation, while also developing sustainable sources of energy, Tesla (TSLA.O) founder Elon Musk told reporters at a conference in Norway on Monday.

The message from the world's top finance chiefs is loud and clear: rampant inflation is here to stay and taming it will take an extraordinary effort, most likely a recession with job losses and shockwaves through emerging markets.

The Kuwaiti government yesterday called a legislative election for September 29, the state news agency said, two months after parliament was dissolved amid simmering political tensions.

Eighteen people were killed in clashes between two communities in western Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this month, according to a government report seen by AFP yesterday.

The Russian defence ministry said it had destroyed a large ammunition depot in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region that had contained US-made HIMARS rocket systems and shells for M777 Howitzers.

Facebook has reached a preliminary agreement in a long-running lawsuit seeking damages from the social network for allowing third parties, including the company Cambridge Analytica, to access users’ private data.

Iran says its review of the United States’s response to a European-Union drafted text to restore their 2015 nuclear deal will take several more days as Qatar continues to mediate between the sides.

Dutch police yesterday said six people were killed and seven other people hurt after a truck ran off the top of a dike road and ploughed into revellers at a neighbourhood barbecue.

Serbia and Kosovo have agreed on an arrangement for free movement between their countries, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell announced yesterday.

Two United States warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait yesterday, the American navy said, the first such transit since China staged unprecedented military drills around the island.

Flights resumed and shops re-opened in Libya’s capital Tripoli yesterday after clashes between backers of rival governments killed at least 32 people and sparked fears of major new conflict.

Turkey yesterday alleged fellow Nato member Greece has used a Russian-made air defence system to harass Turkish jets on a reconnaissance mission, calling it a “hostile action”.

Militias patrolled nearly deserted streets in Libya’s capital Sunday, a day after clashes killed over 30 people and ended Tripoli’s monthslong stretch of relative calm.

A New Mexico man has been arrested and charged with trying to provide material support to ISIS and shutting down an online platform that could have tied two other men to similar charges.

The death toll from an accident when a truck drove off a dike and slammed into a community barbecue in a village south of Rotterdam rose to six Sunday and police said a further seven people are in hospital, including one in critical condition.

Pope Francis will create 20 new cardinals picked from the four corners of the world, most of whom could one day end up choosing the pontiff’s successor.

Rival armed groups exchanged gunfire in the Libyan capital yesterday, killing at least one person and raising fears of all-out conflict in a country embroiled in a grave political crisis.

UN member states ended two weeks of negotiations without a treaty to protect biodiversity in the high seas, an agreement that would have addressed growing environmental and economic challenges.

A US judge on Friday recommended that victims of the Sept 11, 2001, attacks not be allowed to seize billions of dollars of assets belonging to Afghanistan’s central bank to satisfy court judgments they obtained against the Taliban.

Russia has blocked the adoption of a joint declaration on the United Nations’ nuclear disarmament treaty, which criticised Moscow’s military takeover of Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine.