UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday opened the world’s largest diplomatic gathering with a stark warning of growing chaos and confusion as the rules-based global order comes under threat of breaking down.

President Donald Trump yesterday called for Iran’s isolation while welcoming another former adversary, North Korea, in from the cold in an unabashedly boastful speech to the United Nations General Assembly which provoked laughter from fellow leaders.

Inmates and personnel of the Quezon City jail were tested for drugs yesterday as part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s ongoing war on drugs.

A Philippine lawmaker fiercely critical of President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war was arrested yesterday on charges for which he had been granted amnesty, a move condemned by watchdogs as persecution of the government’s opponents.

Pakistani businessmen whose wives and children are trapped in China’s restive Xinjiang are travelling to Beijing to lobby their embassy, in hopes that the south Asian nation’s new government will pressure its ally for their release.

Doing the country proud, two Pakistani women have been selected by Facebook for its first Community Leadership Programme.

Momina Mustehsan became a singing sensation after making her debut at Coke Studio 9 with Afreen Afreen, that featured her alongside Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.

Lahore-based performing arts group Ajoka Theatre will be holding its first theatre festival dedicated to its founder and artistic director, Madeeha Gohar, who died earlier this year.

The 58 migrants aboard the Aquarius rescue ship will be taken to Malta and from there to France, Germany, Portugal, and Spain, after a deal was reached to defuse the latest row over the fate of people rescued in the Mediterranean.

Sweden’s centre-right opposition and the far-right ousted Prime Minister Stefan Lofven in a vote of no-confidence yesterday, as the left and right blocs wrangle over who can form a new government after neither won a majority in September 9 elections.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered an unexpected blow to her authority yesterday when her conservatives cast out long-standing ally Volker Kauder as head of the parliamentary party, reflecting rising discontent with her 13-year-old leadership.

India added 601 new billionaires since 2014, with Reliance Industries Ltd chairman Mukesh Ambani topping the ‘Barclays Hurun India Rich List-2018’ for the seventh consecutive year with an estimated wealth of Rs3.71tn.