Swedish Prosecution Authority says investigators have found traces of explosives at the site of the damaged Nord Stream gas pipelines, confirming sabotage had taken place.
United States basketball star Brittney Griner has been transferred to a penal colony about 500 km (300 miles) southeast of Moscow to serve nine years behind bars in Russia after being convicted on drug charges.
Leaders from Asia-Pacific economies have gathered for a summit as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ministerial meeting kicks off in Bangkok, Thailand.
North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Friday that landed in the sea roughly 200 kilometres west of the Japanese island of Oshima Oshima in Hokkaido.
Myanmar's military-controlled government has released a former British ambassador, an Australian economic adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a Japanese filmmaker as part of a broad prisoner amnesty.
NATO and Poland say the missile that hit Poland was probably a stray fired by Ukraine's air defences and not a Russian strike, easing global concern that the war in Ukraine could spill across the border.
Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has offered to host the 2025 edition of UN climate summit, COP30, and to put the venue in the Amazon rainforest, rather than the more populous coastal region.
Britain issued its first spaceport licence on Wednesday to Spaceport Cornwall, paving the way for the country's maiden satellite launch later this year.