Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to shift funds designated for civilian purposes to military spending to meet any threats from Iran, a government official said yesterday.
American singer John Legend has rewritten the classic Christmas song 'Baby, It's Cold Outside' to focus its lyrics on consent in the wake of the MeToo movement.
Kurdish YPG forces have still not fully withdrawn from a strip of land in northeast Syria which Turkey has insisted they must abandon, according to Ankara's defence minister Hulusi Akar.
Wind-driven wildfires burned largely uncontrolled in tinder- dry California yesterday, as firefighters battled blazes threatening thousands of homes in a race against time with even stronger gusts expected later.
A British backpacker has had his foot bitten off, and another has been left with severe leg injuries following a shark attack off the Queensland coast in Australia.
A bride-to-be who left her fiancé's stag party in the lurch at the airport has been given a suspended sentence for theft and fraud after pocketing the £11,160 (€12,950) kitty for their trip to Spain.
Hong Kong authorities disqualified prominent pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong yesterday from standing in upcoming district elections, a move likely to sow discord among anti-government demonstrators as an illegal Halloween march looms.
