Afghanistan hunger hits record: 15.9 million face acute food insecurity, 19.2 million by winter
Afghanistan hunger has hit record levels, with 15.9 million people in acute food insecurity, the IPC says. WFP and FAO warn 19.2 million may be hit by April.
WHO Ukraine warehouses hit four times since July, destroying $1.5 million of medicines
WHO Ukraine warehouses were hit in four strikes since July, destroying over $1.5 million of medicines, as attacks on health care top…
Kenya Ebola: second case confirmed in relative of first patient, WHO says no community spread
Kenya Ebola update: a 39-year-old relative of the first patient tests positive for Bundibugyo virus in quarantine. WHO says there is no…
WHO: lead poisoning causes over 3.5 million deaths a year, yet half of countries lack paint limits
Lead poisoning is linked to over 3.5 million deaths a year, WHO says, and fewer than half of countries have binding limits…
COP17 biodiversity report: fewer than half of national nature targets on track, Guterres warns
COP17 biodiversity report: fewer than half of national nature targets are on track, and only 26% of land would be protected by…
World Social Report 2026: UN warns AI and green energy shifts could leave millions behind
World Social Report 2026 from UN DESA warns that AI, digital and green energy shifts could deepen inequality, and urges reskilling and…
UN report on neurotechnology warns brain data from gadgets could be used against people in court
Neurotechnology is outpacing human rights laws, a UN report warns, as brain data from gaming or wellness headsets could end up as…
Artemis II heat shield: NASA finds just 9 char-loss spots against 103 on Artemis I
Artemis II heat shield worked as expected, NASA's analysis finds, with only nine spots of char loss compared with 103 on Artemis…
El Nino 2026: NASA satellites track what may be the strongest El Nino since 1950
El Nino 2026 could be the strongest since 1950, with NOAA giving an 83% chance. NASA satellites show a hotter, higher and…
Hurricane Isaias: NASA night images show lights going out across Florida Panhandle, then returning
Hurricane Isaias knocked out power along the Florida Panhandle, NASA night-light images show. Lights faded in Pensacola and Destin and recovered by…
Haiti sanctions renewed for a year as UN Security Council targets the flow of guns to gangs
Haiti sanctions renewed for one year: the UN Security Council keeps its arms embargo, travel ban and asset freeze as gang violence…
DR Congo cholera cases top 125,000 as the country also battles an Ebola outbreak, WHO warns
DR Congo cholera: WHO reports more than 125,000 suspected cases and 3,644 deaths since January 2025, as an Ebola outbreak strains the…
Yemen fighting cuts off food aid to 800,000 people as WFP warns of catastrophe in Taiz
Yemen fighting has cut off WFP aid to about 800,000 people, with 600,000 in Taiz out of reach, as the agency warns…
WHO Eastern Mediterranean meeting: Tedros says 117 million people in the region need aid
WHO Eastern Mediterranean committee in Cairo: Tedros says 117 million people need aid and noncommunicable diseases cause two-thirds of deaths in the…
Gaza winter: UN steps up preparations as attacks continue and aid stays restricted
Gaza winter is close: OCHA says fuel, tarpaulins and winter clothing are not enough as strikes go on and access stays restricted…
Anil Menon spacewalk: NASA to preview the last two ISS solar array installs on 20 October
Anil Menon spacewalk: NASA will brief on US spacewalks 100 and 101 on 20 October, when Menon and Joshua Kutryk fit the…
Artemis III update: NASA to brief on its Moon timeline and next year’s test flight on 23 October
Artemis III update: NASA will brief on 23 October on its plan to fly four astronauts in low Earth orbit next year…
NASA Moon battery: solid-state SPEARS cells built to survive the lunar South Pole cold
NASA Moon battery: SPEARS solid-state cells worked down to minus 80 C in tests and survived 100 C to minus 170 C,…
Treble Clef in space: NASA’s Chandra finds a black hole outburst and cluster crash behind the shape
Treble Clef radio shape explained: NASA's Chandra and eROSITA show a black hole outburst and a galaxy cluster collision created the musical-looking…
Hurricane Simon weakens to 75 mph off Mexico as Baja California Sur told to stay alert
Hurricane Simon weakens to 75 mph off Mexico's Pacific coast; NHC says Baja California Sur should monitor it, days after it passed…
UN budget 2027: Guterres proposes slimmer $3.3 billion plan, says need for UN ‘never greater’
UN budget 2027: Guterres proposes $3.3 billion, $40.8 million less than 2026, with UN80 job moves to Nairobi and a call on…
Kharkiv attack kills four, injures 41 as Russian missiles also hit Kyiv, UN says
Kharkiv attack: a Russian strike destroys a residential building, killing four and injuring 41, while Kyiv is hit by ballistic missiles, the…
800 million young people face a future without jobs, UNDP warns as it launches two new initiatives
800 million young people in developing countries may find no jobs in 15 years, UNDP chief Alexander De Croo warns, launching two…
Disaster housing losses hit $228 billion a year, UN says on Disaster Risk Reduction Day
Disaster housing losses reach $228 billion a year, the UN says on Disaster Risk Reduction Day. Homes make up 43% of direct…
CRS-35 launch: SpaceX Dragon carries final ISS solar arrays and 6,300 pounds of cargo
CRS-35 launched on 13 October with 6,300 pounds of cargo and the final ISS roll-out solar arrays. Dragon docks on 15 October.…
Christina Koch named NASA acting deputy chief engineer, ends her spaceflight career
Christina Koch becomes NASA's acting deputy chief engineer from 1 November and will no longer fly. The Artemis II astronaut and ISS…
Griffin-1 Moon lander clears shake, roar and vacuum tests at NASA JPL ahead of launch
Griffin-1, Voyager Technologies' Moon lander, passed vibration, 153-decibel acoustic and thermal vacuum tests at NASA JPL ahead of a Falcon Heavy launch.
Sentinel-3C sends first images of Italy and Greenland two weeks after launch
Sentinel-3C, the new Copernicus satellite, sends its first images of Italy, the Arctic and the Caribbean plus Greenland ice height data two…
West African migrants reaching Europe fall 59%, but routes are deadlier, IOM says
West African migrants reaching Europe by sea fell 59% in the first half of 2026, IOM says, but deaths barely dropped as…
Farthest fast radio burst traced to a tiny dwarf galaxy by Webb, hinting at a magnetar origin
Farthest fast radio burst, FRB 20240304B, traced by NASA's Webb to a small star-forming dwarf galaxy 3 billion years after the big…
UN pandemic declaration adopted 153-3 as US, Israel, Argentina vote against
UN pandemic declaration adopted 153-3 after consensus failed, with the US, Israel and Argentina voting no. WHO urges a deal on the…
Multidimensional Poverty Index 2026: poor rise to 1.2 billion, first increase since 2010
Multidimensional Poverty Index 2026: 1.2 billion people are poor, 51.5 million more than last year and the first rise since 2010. Half…
UNHCR funding cuts: Barham Salih warns refugee protection is buckling
UNHCR funding cuts: Barham Salih says the agency has $3bn of the $8.5bn it needs as 117 million are displaced, and 8,000…
Sudan famine risk grows in Darfur and Kordofan as drought deepens war crisis
Sudan famine risk is rising in Darfur and Kordofan, the IPC warns, with child malnutrition at 38% in two Jebel Marra camps…
Colombia peace deal under strain as armed groups nearly double, UN tells Security Council
Colombia peace deal: UN envoy Miroslav Jenca tells the Security Council armed groups grew from 15,000 to 28,000 and 501 ex-combatants were…
Syria Security Council briefing: UN and Damascus discuss elections, OPCW progress
Syria Security Council briefing: UN and Damascus discuss elections, the OPCW verifies 42 chemical bombs destroyed, and 5.5 million remain displaced.
Perseverance driving record: NASA rover beats Opportunity with 28.10 miles on Mars
Perseverance driving record: NASA's Mars rover hit 28.10 miles on 11 October, beating Opportunity's 28.06 miles in 5.5 years instead of almost…
Sophie Adenot back in Europe after record 237-day ISS mission
Sophie Adenot is back in Europe after 237 days on the ISS, a European record for the longest single spaceflight. She landed…
Ukraine energy ceasefire: Zelensky says Russia hit six energy sites after Trump’s truce
Ukraine energy ceasefire latest: Zelensky says Russia hit six energy sites, injuring 33, hours after Trump's truce. The EU says Russia has…
NGC 1275 black hole flared in X-rays, then fired radio jets about 300 days later
NGC 1275 black hole: NASA Swift data show the Perseus Cluster giant flared in X-rays, then fired radio jets about 300 days…
Riyadh airport attack: toll rises to 13 as new projectile hits Terminal 4
Riyadh airport attack: toll from Saturday's Houthi strike rises to 13 after an Indian national died; a new projectile hit Terminal 4…
Djibouti shipwreck: death toll rises to 139 with 84 still missing, says IOM
Djibouti shipwreck: IOM says at least 139 migrants, including 15 children, died when a boat carrying 305 people capsized near Guehere; 84…
Ethiopia Tigray fighting: Guterres ‘gravely concerned’ as reports of Eritrean troops grow
Ethiopia Tigray fighting: UN chief Guterres urges an immediate end to renewed clashes in Tigray, Afar and Amhara and voices concern over…
Sudan Blue Nile drone strike kills at least 40, mostly women and girls
Sudan Blue Nile drone strike: the UN says at least 40 people, mostly women and girls, were killed near the Ethiopian border;…
Global trade record: world trade hits $35 trillion in 2025, says UNCTAD
Global trade record: UNCTAD says world trade reached $35 trillion in 2025, but export controls and investment screening are shutting developing countries…
Taiwan Eswatini agreement: Lai and King Mswati III witness legal assistance pact
Taiwan Eswatini agreement: President Lai Ching-te and King Mswati III witness signing of a mutual legal assistance pact in criminal matters, Taiwan's…
Livestream execution plan would breach torture ban, UN rights office warns US
Livestream execution: the UN human rights office says broadcasting the planned firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan would be a…
Mekong Delta saltwater farming: Vietnam’s rice bowl learns to live with the sea
Mekong Delta saltwater farming: UN University researchers study how Vietnamese farmers adapt to sea-level rise, dams and El Niño that threaten rice…
Cote d’Ivoire dam eases herder-farmer clashes in Torla village
Cote d'Ivoire dam: a rehabilitated agropastoral dam in Torla, backed by IOM and the UN Peacebuilding Fund, is reducing dry-season clashes between…
Gaza women entrepreneurs keep small businesses alive amid war damage, UNDP says
Gaza women entrepreneurs: UNDP profiles women in Khan Younis and elsewhere running poultry, cheese and other small businesses despite destroyed homes and…
Riyadh airport attack kills 12 and injures over 300, Saudi authorities say
Riyadh airport attack: Saudi civil aviation authorities say 12 people were killed and 309 injured at King Khalid International Airport; flights were…
Trump Houthi strikes decision: US may join Saudi campaign, says President
Trump Houthi strikes: after the Riyadh airport attack, Donald Trump says the US may join Saudi strikes on Yemen's Houthis and will…
Putin Trump call: Kremlin says Ukraine talks unlikely to resume soon
Putin Trump call: Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov says drone attacks on Moscow during elections make immediate trilateral talks unlikely; Russia to supply…
Zaporizhzhia attack kills 20 a day after US eases Russian diesel sanctions
Zaporizhzhia attack: Russian glide bombs hit homes, killing 20 including three children; Zelenskyy calls it Moscow's 'thanks' for the diesel deal.
Hurricane Isaias weakens over Alabama but flash flood risk persists
Hurricane Isaias, the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season, hit Florida as a Category 2 and is now post-tropical, with up…
Panama earthquake of magnitude 7.7 rocks country, USGS says
Panama earthquake: USGS says a magnitude 7.7 quake struck 12 km west-southwest of Pitaloza Arriba at a depth of 12.6 km, followed…
Ebola outbreak in DRC spreads as Kenya confirms imported case
Ebola outbreak in DRC: WHO reports 8,728 confirmed Bundibugyo cases and 4,205 deaths in 64 health zones; Kenya confirms its first imported…
Gaza ceasefire anniversary: a year on, key promises remain unmet
Gaza ceasefire anniversary: a year after the 2025 truce, over 1,400 Palestinians have been killed, rebuilding has not begun and Hamas has…
Taiwan National Day speech: Lai says defence spending aims to deter war
Taiwan National Day speech: President Lai Ching-te says Taiwan will uphold peace but not surrender freedom; China condemns the address as separatist.
UAE tanker fire rescue: 22 crew saved as Iran claims Hormuz mine strike
UAE tanker fire rescue: the UAE National Guard saved 22 Asian crew from a burning tanker; separately Iran's IRGC claims a supertanker…
US sanctions on ICC target the court itself; ICC calls it assault on rule of law
Sweeping US sanctions on ICC operations were announced by the Trump administration on Friday. The BBC reported that the measures target the…
Nobel Peace Prize 2026 awarded to South African jurist Navi Pillay
The Nobel Peace Prize 2026 has been awarded to Navanethem 'Navi' Pillay. The Norwegian Nobel Committee cited her efforts to promote peace…
Donetsk counteroffensive: Ukraine says it has retaken up to 176 sq km near Lyman
Ukraine's Donetsk counteroffensive has pushed Russian forces back around Lyman, Al Jazeera reported. Ukraine's 3rd Army Corps commander Andrii Biletskyi said 'Operation…
Trump Iran pledge: no US attack before 3 November midterm elections
In a Trump Iran pledge on Thursday, the US president said Washington will not attack Iran before the midterm elections. Reuters reported…
Gulf tanker attacks spread beyond Hormuz as supertanker is hit off UAE
Gulf tanker attacks are spreading beyond the Strait of Hormuz. A vessel was struck by an unknown projectile off the UAE on…
France school protests: PM Lecornu vows action plan as 375 schools shut
France school protests resumed on 8 October with 375 schools fully or partly shut. PM Sebastien Lecornu has ordered ministers to draw…
Maduro torture charges: US accuses Venezuela’s ex-leader and wife of torturing detainees, including Americans
Maduro torture charges: US prosecutors accuse Venezuela's ex-president and wife Cilia Flores of conspiring to torture detainees, including US citizens.
Anne Carson Nobel Prize: Canadian poet wins the 2026 literature award
Anne Carson Nobel Prize: the Swedish Academy named the 76-year-old Canadian poet and classicist the 2026 literature laureate for her bold, inventive…
Kramatorsk bus attack: Russian glide bomb kills at least 30, Zelensky vows response
Kramatorsk bus attack: a Russian glide bomb hit two buses in eastern Ukraine on 8 October, killing at least 30. Zelensky said…
Saudi airport attacks: India tells nationals to stay indoors as Riyadh flights are cancelled
Saudi airport attacks by Houthis killed 3, injured 36. India condemns it, tells nationals to stay indoors; Air India and IndiGo cancel…
US pulls all B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford after suspected plot
The United States has withdrawn all of its B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford, the British air base north-west of London, a week…
Ukraine says its strikes have hit half of Russia’s oil refining capacity
Ukraine's defence ministry said on Monday, 5 October 2026, that long-range Ukrainian strikes have taken out more than half of Russia's oil…
Yemen government forces retake Mocha as Houthis claim Riyadh strike
Saudi-backed Yemen government forces said on Monday, 5 October 2026, that they had pushed the Iran-backed Houthis off the coast around the…
Jaishankar meets US Indo-Pacific commander Samuel Paparo
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar held Indo-Pacific security talks on Sunday, 4 October 2026, with Admiral Samuel J. Paparo, commander of the…
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon for long-running work
Google announced its new frontier model, Gemini 4 Argon, in a dpa report timed at 02:00 on 5 October 2026. dpa said…
Artificial intelligence buildout faces a revenue test
Never has so much cash flowed into a new technology as is pouring into artificial intelligence, eclipsing sums spent on railways or…
PTI Imran Khan march begins after Pakistan talks fail
Supporters of jailed former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan set off on a protest march from the country's northwest after talks with…
Strait of Hormuz stays shut until seven conditions met
Iran's parliament speaker said the Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until seven conditions in a June interim agreement with the United…