The US announced yesterday a new, large deployment of forces to Saudi Arabia to help bolster the kingdom's defences following the September 14 attack on its oil facilities, which Washington and Riyadh have blamed on Iran.
Turkey stepped up its air and artillery strikes on Kurdish militia in northeast Syria yesterday, escalating an offensive that has drawn warnings of humanitarian catastrophe and turned Republican lawmakers against US President Donald Trump.
US President Donald Trump levelled some of his most personal attacks yet against Joe Biden and his family at his first campaign rally since House Democrats launched their impeachment inquiry.
Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space 54 years ago, has died in Moscow aged 85.
A 19-year-old Northern Ireland woman was hospitalised after being stabbed in a terrorist attack at Manchester's Arndale Shopping Centre.
An Iranian-owned oil tanker was struck, probably by missiles, in the Red Sea off Saudi Arabia's coast, Iranian media said, an incident that if confirmed will stoke tension in a region rattled by attacks on tankers and oil sites since May.
Hundreds of mask-wearing pro-democracy protesters marched through Hong Kong's central business district yesterday, occupying a main thoroughfare and disrupting traffic as the Chinese-ruled city braced for another weekend of unrest.
