Russian President Vladimir Putin has laid out plans for Moscow to develop mid-range missiles banned under a Cold War treaty with the United States if Washington abandons the deal.

French “yellow vest” protesters occupied highway toll booths, setting a number on fire and causing transport chaos in parts of the country just days before the Christmas holidays getaway.

Russian lawmakers have approved draft legislation that would make it a jailable offence to call on teenagers to attend unauthorised street protests, a move Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said yesterday was designed to frustrate his own activity.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX halted yesterday’s launch of a long-delayed navigation satellite for the US military, postponing for at least a day the space transportation company’s first designated national security mission for the United States.

US President Donald Trump has ordered the creation of “Space Command”, a new organisational structure within the Pentagon that will have overall control of military space operations.

President Donald Trump’s former national security chief has received a delay in sentencing for lying over Russian contacts, after a judge threatened him with stiff jail time and said: “You sold your country out.”

This girl is on fire,” tweeted Miss Universe 2015 Pia Wurtzbach on Monday, as she led other celebrities, politicians, and netizens on Twitterverse in congratulating Catriona Gray for bringing back the crown to the Philippines.

Police arrested a couple allegedly working as illegal arms dealers for terrorist groups and rogue politicians in a buy-bust operation in Valenzuela City on Sunday night.

A group of constitutionalists and framers of the 1987 Constitution have petitioned the Supreme Court to declare the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), which grants wider autonomy to Mindanao, illegal and unconstitutional.

Islamabad police have registered a first investigation report (FIR) against five persons, including the security guards of Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif, for assaulting a Samaa TV cameraman on Monday.

A rape victim who was charged with attempted murder in El Salvador after giving birth to her abuser’s baby has been found not guilty and freed from jail.

A huge fire blazed through 600 wooden homes built on stilts next to a river in Brazil’s Amazon region overnight, decimating a poor area of the city of Manaus but causing no deaths, authorities said yesterday.