Restaurant owner Antoine Haddad has been in business for over 35 years but says he is running out of hope as Lebanon struggles with one of the deepest financial crises of modern times.

The US Commerce Department added Israel's NSO Group, the firm that developed Pegasus, and Candiru to its trade blacklist, saying they sold spyware to foreign governments that used the equipment to target government officials, journalists and others.

The conservative-majority US Supreme Court is to hear a gun rights case yesterday that could lead to looser restrictions on carrying firearms in public.

1942 - British troops defeated the Germans under General Erwin Rommel at El Alamein in Egypt after a 12-day battle during World WarII.

A four-year-old Australian girl abducted from a campsite 18 days ago was discovered “alive and well” during a raid on a locked house yesterday, telling her shocked and elated rescuers: “My name is Cleo.”

It just is a gigantic issue and they walked away. How do you do that and claim to be able to have any leadership? Joe Biden on Xi Jinping’s absence from COP26

Negotiations to revive Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers will fail unless US President Joe Biden can guarantee that Washington will not again abandon the pact, the head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said yesterday.

Attention yesterday turned to how the world will pay for its plan to decarbonise and help vulnerable nations survive climate change, after a world leaders’ summit at COP26 that yielded a landmark methane slashing deal.

The UN rights chief yesterday slammed the extreme brutality characterising the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, following a joint UN-Ethiopian report warning of possible “crimes against humanity” by all sides.

Police smashed their way into a suburban house on Wednesday and rescued a 4-year-old girl whose disappearance from her family’s camping tent on Australia’s remote west coast more than two weeks ago both horrified and captivated the nation.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has been absent from the Group of 20 summit in Rome and this week’s global climate talks in Scotland, drawing criticism from US President Joe Biden and questions about China’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Britain and India introduced a plan on Tuesday to improve connections between the world's electricity power grids to accelerate the transition to greener energy.

The Saudi-led military coalition backing the government in Yemen yesterday said that 115 Huthi rebels were killed in air strikes around the strategic city of Marib.

644 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, second Muslim caliph, is killed in Medina by an enslaved Persian captive.

In her first public address since she leaked a trove of damaging documents about Facebook’s inner workings, whistleblower Frances Haugen urged her former boss, Mark Zuckerberg, to step down and allow change rather than devoting resources to a rebrand.

It is the hope of many that the legacy of this summit - written in history books yet to be printed - will describe you as the leaders who did not pass up the opportunity; and that you answered the call of those future generations. … But we are doing this not for ourselves but for our children and our children’s children.

A crucial UN conference heard calls on its first day for the world’s major economies to keep their promises of financial help to address the climate crisis.

Nearly all internationally available development financing is now committed to reducing or ending investment in coal-fired power after moves by China and the G20 to stop supporting new projects overseas, new research showed yesterday.

French President Emmanuel Macron has said he was postponing planned trade sanctions on Britain so that negotiators from both sides could work on new proposals to defuse their dispute over post-Brexit fishing rights.

Nearly 90 countries have joined a US- and EU-led effort to slash emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels, a pact aimed at tackling one of the main causes of climate change, a senior Biden administration official said.