Police said it was the "largest" ever crackdown on phone theft in the British capital

A busy California airport had no air traffic controllers on Monday evening, the state's governor said, as the effects of a US government shutdown rippled across the country.

The death toll from an Indonesian school collapse rose to 63 yesterday, officials said, as workers pulled more remains from the rubble of the building that collapsed last week.

The US government shutdown entered its second week yesterday, with no sign of a deal between President Donald Trump’s Republicans and Democrats to end the crisis.

Cambodia’s powerful former leader Hun Sen on Monday blasted a social media video of a man shooting at his image during a carnival in Thailand, amid simmering tensions over the nations’ disputed border.

Australian police charged a 60-year-old man Monday after he allegedly opened fire on a busy Sydney street, wounding 16 people in a chaotic attack.

Delegations from Israel and Hamas began indirect negotiations in Egypt yesterday that the US hopes will bring a halt to the violence in Gaza, facing contentious issues such as demands that Israel pull out of the enclave and Hamas to disarm.

A US-Japanese trio yesterday won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for research into how the immune system is kept in check by identifying its “security guards”, the Nobel jury said.

France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his govern-ment resigned yesterday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived administration in modern French history and deepening the country’s political crisis.

Israel yesterday said it deported 171 more activists who were detained while taking part in an aid flotilla bound for Gaza, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg.

Rescuers in Nepal and India yesterday scrambled to deliver emergency aid after days of torrential rain triggered landslides and floods that have killed more than 70 people, officials said.

Gold prices touched an all-time high on Monday, soaring above the $3,900-per-ounce level, as investors flocked to safe-haven bullion amid the US government shutdown, broader economic uncertainty, and prospects of further Federal Reserve rate cuts.

A rift within Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition is emerging as a flashpoint in efforts to end the war in Gaza, threatening to derail a US push to reshape the political landscape of the Middle East.

The other party to the trial, a father and son, were also shot

UN health agency says e-cigarettes are fueling a new wave of nicotine addiction

Court finds Janjaweed commander guilty of rape, murder and torture during 2003–2004 atrocities

Mediators from Egypt and Qatar push forward US-backed proposal

ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric said in a statement

Talks were set to begin as the war reaches its two-year mark with the majority of 2.2 million Gazans homeless and hungry in a sea of rubble

This is more than a quarter of our entire workforce, its chief says