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  1 Dead, 2 Injured In Poland's Second School Attack In Two Days

  A 37-year-old woman who worked as a caretaker had died in the attack, which took place at around 0700 GMT in Leszczydol-Nowiny.

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  Nobel Prize In Chemistry 2026 Awarded To Henri B Kagan, Kenso Soai

  The chemistry Nobel, always the third prize to be awarded during Nobel week, followed those for medicine and physics announced on Monday and Tuesday.

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  Gene-Editing, Sleep And Appetite Experts Eye 2026 Nobel Chemistry Prize

  This year, data analytics firm Clarivate predicted that research into the hunger-regulating hormone GLP-1 was a contender for the Nobel Prize in Medicine, but the award went to neuroscientists.

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  Tear Gas Fired As Over 260,000 Rally Seeking Education Funding In France

  Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the police response had been proportionate in "almost all cases" and that the protests had at times turned into riots, requiring police intervention.

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  India Sends 3-Part Peace Plan To End Russia-Ukraine War. What's In It

  India's three-part ceasefire plan seeks to halt attacks on energy facilities and other infrastructure, keep grain and energy flowing through Black Sea ports and end strikes on commercial shipping passing through the strategic waterway, diplomatic sources said.

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  Explosions Heard In Kyiv As Russia Increases Airstrikes On Energy Infrastructure

  Kyiv has been under increased attack as winter approaches, with Russian air strikes targeting energy infrastructure, rail and road transport.

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  Ukraine Drone Attack Sets Fire On Oil Tanker With 23 Indian Crew Members

  Russia and Ukraine have been heavily targeting commercial shipping around the Black Sea since the start of the conflict in 2022.

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  Francis Halzen Wins Physics Nobel For Astrophysical Neutrinos' Discovery

  Last year, three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by MRI machines and laid the groundwork for better cellphones and faster computers.

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  Britain May Expel Israeli Diplomats If Jerusalem Consulate Closes: Report

  The 30-day deadline for Britain to close the consulate ends on Thursday, which will impact around 30 British diplomats who work there, along with their family members, the sources said.

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  Germany's Far-Right AfD On Path To Take Over State Assembly For 1st Time

  The AfD took nearly 44 per cent of the vote last month in the state, located in the former communist East Germany, easily beating the centre-right CDU of unpopular Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

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  Explained: How Is The Nobel Peace Prize Decided?

  Some 287 candidates have been nominated, including 208 individuals and 79 organisations.

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  Chinese, Caribbean Women Among Contenders For Nobel Literature Prize

  There is no public shortlist for the Nobel, and with the deliberations of the Swedish Academy that awards the prize and the list of nominees remaining sealed for 50 years, Stockholm's literary circles engage in frantic guessing ahead of the announcement.

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  "Unacceptable": India On Sailor Injured In Russia Attack On Ship In Black Sea

  India has reacted to reports of a Russian attack on a cargo vessel, saying the aggression is "completely unacceptable."

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  "Rohan" Carved On Minor's Chest: Indian Man Behind Global Paedophile Ring

  The case first came into light in 2020, as part of an initiative by the US National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children to combat child sexual abuse. The organisation discovered online images of a 12-year-old girl with her chest exposed.

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  Russia Says 'Situation Under Control' After Plague Death Reports

  Reports on Friday that a 28-year-old woman named Darya Shipilova, who had been working for the anti-plague institute in Siberia's Irkutsk region, had died of plague sparked alarm.

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  15-Year-Old Picks Up Grenade During French Protest, Has Hand Blown Off

  A police union source said the student in the northern town of Lens appeared to have picked up a sting-ball grenade fired by riot police

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  Hundreds Of Schools Stay Closed In France Amid Raging Student Protests

  Between 400 and 500 high schools are expected to remain completely or partially closed on Monday in France, out of a total of 3,700, Education Minister Edouard Geffray said on Sunday evening.

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  Nobel Medicine Prize Goes To 3 Scientists For Research Into Brain Activity

  Karl Deisseroth, 54, Peter Hegemann, 71, and Georg Nagel, 73, have carried out research into light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. They are based at universities in Germany and the United States.

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  Spain PM Calls Early Election After Housing Crisis Defeat

  Spain has been operating under its 2023 budget, the last national spending plan passed by Sanchez's government, for several years.

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  US Withdraws All Bomber Planes From UK Airbase Amid Security Concerns

  A statement from a Pentagon official said "we can acknowledge now that all US bombers that were deployed to RAF Fairford have re-deployed to their home stations in the United States."