Russian strikes left hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians without power on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, ‌while Russian authorities reported major damage to an industrial site following Ukrainian drone attacks on the Nizhny Novgorod region.

In pics: autumn harvest in Vientiane, Laos

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Asian tour has come to an embarrassing end. One of the key objectives of his trip, according to Merz himself, was to build what he called a "global alliance of like-minded partners to defend rules-based trade."

The premiere of "Kung Fu Dream," a documentary highlighting China-Africa cultural and people-to-people exchanges, was held in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, on Friday, drawing an audience of nearly 300 people.

Bright orange marigolds, glowing candles and faces painted like the elegant skeletons known as catrinas fill the streets of Mexico every year during the country's Day of the Dead celebrations.

A targeted shooting inside a Spirit Halloween store in Northern California left a pregnant woman dead and six other people wounded, police said.

Long dubbed an "air-conditioned nation", Singapore is experimenting with cooling alternatives from chilled beams to "passive displacement" to curb its thirst for energy-guzzling air conditioning.

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted the Vanuatu Islands at 1147 GMT on Sunday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said.

As election results draw regional attention, some in Tehran argue that a change in Israel's political leadership would do little to alter the country's underlying policy toward Iran.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Sunday announced that Tehran had designated Britain's Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) as "terrorist and hostile" entities over the British government's anti-Iran actions over the past year.

On October 31, the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games opened, marking the first time the African continent has hosted an Olympic sporting event.

Bulgarians are going to the polls on Sunday to vote in the second round of the country's presidential election.

Bulgarians go to the polls on Sunday to vote in the second round of the country's elections for president and vice president.

A two-day meeting of the Group of 20 (G20) foreign ministers ended in Atlanta on Saturday without a joint communique, as participants failed to reach consensus on major global geopolitical and economic security issues amid the Ukraine crisis and the US-Iran conflict.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Saturday pledged to ensure the country's Constitutional Tribunal operated in accordance with the law, after President Karol Nawrocki accused the government of forcibly taking control of the court in an escalating political dispute over the judiciary.