Scientists behind game-changing cancer immunotherapies win Nobel medicine prize
American James Allison and Japanese Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine on Monday for game-changing discoveries about how to harness and manipulate the immune system to fight cancer.
Chaotic scenes in quake-hit Indonesia as bodies lie unclaimed
Police guarded banks in the Indonesian city of Palu on Monday as residents scrambled to flee and dozens of bodies lay unclaimed in a hospital three days after a major earthquake and tsunami.
Germany uncovers terrorist group which attacked foreigners in Chemnitz
German police detained six men on Monday suspected of forming a far-right militant organization which assaulted foreigners in the eastern city of Chemnitz and planning attacks on politicians and civil servants, the GBA federal prosecutor’s office said….
‘Don’t bully us’, Britain takes new combative tone to Brexit talks
Britain cannot be bullied, Brexit minister Dominic Raab said on Monday, sharpening the government’s criticism of the European Union for taunting Prime Minister Theresa May and souring difficult Brexit talks.
Santander says Brexit may have ‘significant’ impact on its results
Britain’s exit from the European Union will likely trigger a period of high uncertainty that may significantly impact Banco Santander’s business, the Spanish lender said in a filing to the U.S.’s Security and Exchange Commission.
We must prove EU wrong about the UK’s Brexit plans: Hammond
British finance minister Philip Hammond said on Monday the government would prove the European Union was wrong to dismiss Britain’s plans for Brexit as unworkable.
Russia summons South Korean ambassador over vessel held at port
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned South Korea’s ambassador in Moscow on Monday and demanded that Seoul allow a Russian vessel to leave South Korea’s port of Busan, the ministry said in a statement.
French watchdog calms UK asset manager fears over Brexit
Cooperation agreements for supervising cross-border asset managers will be in place before Britain leaves the European Union next March, France’s top markets regulator said on Monday.
Chinese bishops to attend Vatican synod for first time
Catholic bishops from China will for the first time attend a major Vatican meeting starting this week, the Vatican said on Monday, the first concrete sign of a thaw between the Holy See and Beijing following a landmark agreement.
U.N. rights expert urges Malaysia to end child marriage
Malaysia should ban child marriage immediately, a United Nations human rights expert said on Monday, stepping into a controversy that has raged since reports in July that a 44-year-old Malaysian man had married an 11-year-old Thai girl.
