In a stunning display of strategic prowess, Ranindu Liyanage of Sri Lanka emerged victorious, claiming the prestigious International Master Title at the 29th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival Masters event.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) in India has arrested another accused in the India-Sri Lanka illegal drugs and arms trade case relating to the attempts to revive the terror group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

At least 13 people, including seven children, were killed in a crowd crush on Friday at a stadium in Madagascar's capital of Antananarivo.

Three-time World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) world champion Bray Wyatt has died at the age of 36.

Donald Trump turned himself in as expected on Thursday in Georgia to be charged with an election plot. That process - and the coming arraignment - may follow a script unlike his previous three arrests this year.

Ever since he led a mutinous march on Moscow in late June Yevgeny Prigozhin was described by Russia watchers as "a dead man walking".

Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed in Russia killing all 10 people on board, Russia's civil aviation authority says.

Japan will start releasing treated radioactive water from the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, despite opposition from its neighbours.

Seven people, including a six-year-old girl, were killed when a Russian missile struck a theatre in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv on Saturday morning, officials have said.