Mixed day for global stocks as Saudi announcement lifts oil prices
Oil prices advanced Monday after key producer Saudi Arabia slashed output by a million barrels in a bid to prop up prices, while Wall Street stocks retreated from multi-month peaks.
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Canada braces for possible worst wildfire season ever
Canada is facing a dire wildfire situation through the coming months, officials warned on Monday after vast swaths of forests and grasslands from its Pacific to Atlantic coasts have been scorched.
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Millot double helps keep Stuttgart in Bundesliga
Stuttgart secured their Bundesliga status with a 3-1 victory at Hamburg (6-1 aggregate) in Monday's relegation playoff return leg, ensuring another season in the second division for the fallen giants.
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Germany returns 'stolen' dinosaur fossil to Brazil
A fossil from a rare dinosaur that roamed South America 110 million years ago has been returned to Brazil from Germany, ending a diplomatic spat triggered by charges that researchers stole it.
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Rune, Haddad Maia win French Open epics as Swiatek enjoys brief encounter
Holger Rune and Beatriz Haddad Maia triumphed in marathon French Open epics which took almost eight hours to complete on Monday while Iga Swiatek required just 31 minutes to move into the quarter-finals.
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Zelensky hails advances as Russia says offensive repelled
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday praised his troops for advances claimed near the devastated city of Bakhmut, while Russia said it had repelled a large-scale attack.
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'Double bounce? That's life', says Rune after French Open flashpoint
World number six Holger Rune reached a second successive French Open quarter-final on Monday in a rollercoaster five-set win over Francisco Cerundolo, shrugging off a controversial incident in the match as "that's life".
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Wayward US plane's pilot was slumped over, apparently unconscious: report
US aviation officials on Monday were investigating the fatal crash of an "unresponsive" private plane that strayed over the nation's capital and prompted the scrambling of F-16 fighter jets.
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Apple unveils Vision Pro, its first mixed reality headset
Apple on Monday unveiled its first-ever virtual reality headset challenging Facebook-owner Meta in a market that has yet to tempt users beyond videogamers and tech geeks.
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World's oldest-known burial site found in S.Africa: scientists
Palaeontologists in South Africa said Monday they have found the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distant relative of humans previously thought incapable of complex behaviour.
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