We plan to present the Paris climate agreement to our parliament’s approval next month...Unlike the past, this time no one has the right to say: I am powerful, I do not pay the bill. Because climate change treats mankind quite fairly. 

Scientists have discovered another clue to the origins of the virus that causes Covid-19, with bats living in caves in Laos found to be carrying a similar pathogen that experts suggest could potentially infect humans directly.

Iran’s new ultraconservative president voiced support Tuesday in his international debut for reviving a nuclear accord even as he berated the United States, hailing what he described as its failures.

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near Melbourne on Wednesday, Geoscience Australia said, one of the country's biggest quakes on record, causing damage to buildings in the country's second largest city and sending tremors throughout neighbouring states.

US President Joe Biden yesterday pledged cooperation with allies through “a decisive decade for our world” in his first address to the United Nations.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hung onto power on Monday as his main rival conceded defeat. Trudeau said he had won a clear mandate to govern although he fell short of his goal for a majority win.

Sweden’s tax authority has rejected a couple’s request to name their newly born son “Vladimir Putin,” arguing the name was inappropriate.

Britain’s defence ministry has apologised after it accidentally revealed the email addresses of more than 250 Afghan interpreters seeking to move to the UK.

President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday vowed to “act jointly” in the Indo-Pacific region, the French presidency said, as a row with Australia and the US intensifies.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged leaders of the world’s major economies including the United States to deliver on their commitments toward a $100 billion per year climate fund with less than six weeks to go before a UN climate summit.

Sudan’s fragile transitional government said it foiled an attempted coup early yesterday involving military officers and civilians linked to the ousted regime of longtime President Omar al-Bashir.

Canadians gave Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party a victory in Monday’s parliamentary elections, but his gamble to win a majority of seats failed and nearly mirrored the result of two years ago.

Two students were wounded in a shooting at a Virginia high school Monday afternoon, police said.

Pfizer and BioNTech yesterday said trial results showed their coronavirus vaccine was safe and produced a robust immune response in children aged five to 11, adding that they would seek regulatory approval shortly. The vaccine would be administered at a lower dosage than for people over 12, they said.

1939 - In Romania, Prime Minister Armand Calinescu was murdered by the fascist Iron Guard.

A gunman opened fire on a university campus in central Russia yesterday and killed six people before being detained, investigators said, in the country’s second mass shooting this year to target students.

A vaccine summit being hosted by US President Joe Biden must come up with a plan this week to transfer 100 million stockpiled Covid-19 vaccines to poorer countries before they reach their expiry date, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said.

North Korea yesterday warned that the United States risked a dangerous nuclear arms race by providing submarine technology to Australia, criticising its “double standards” and vowing counter-measures.

Russia’s ruling United Russia party, which supports President Vladimir Putin, won an emphatic parliamentary majority after its most vociferous critics were prevented from contesting an election that opponents said was marred by large-scale fraud.

An Italian prisoner shot at fellow inmates through the bars of their cell with a weapon believed to have been smuggled in by drone, a prison union said yesterday.