Nobel Peace laureate Navi Pillay urged the United States to defend human rights and return to what she called its traditional role as a global leader.

Pillay made her comments in The Hague, where she is a judge at the International Court of Justice.

The United States announced sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court hours after Pillay was named the Peace Prize winner.

She said the timing was troubling and showed that efforts to target international criminal justice had been developing for some time.

ABC journalist Michael Slezak may face disciplinary action after writing an opinion piece for the Australian Financial Review.

Slezak is also federal president of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, the union representing journalists and other media workers.

His piece opposed proposed limits on public information about company directors by Australia’s corporate regulator, ASIC.

ABC news director Simon Robinson and news executive Lee Glendinning met with Slezak to discuss whether the piece breached the broadcaster’s rules on outside work and public comment.

Drones struck two cargo ships off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast overnight on October 13.

One ship sank, and five crew members were rescued, while 11 others remained missing as search efforts continued.

The other ship, the Ukrainian-owned Chelsea 3, was hit by three drones, and all 15 crew members were evacuated; five had minor injuries.

The attacks came a week after two other commercial ships were hit in Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone, with one sinking and its crew presumed dead.

Pemex reported 9.18 billion pesos in losses from physical fuel theft in the second quarter of this year, its worst such losses since 2018.

The theft involves fuel taken directly from the company’s pipelines and tanker trucks in Mexico.

Pemex also acknowledged fuel smuggling through imports that appear legal but use false paperwork or other methods to avoid taxes and rules.

The company said authorities seized about 61 million litres of fuel in 2025, a 297% increase from 2024.

Apple announced a new Apple TV 4K at a smart home-focused event on Oct.

13.

The streaming box looks much like its predecessor, last updated in 2022, but has an A19 chip and Wi-Fi 7 support.

Built-in microphones let users talk to Siri hands-free, without speaking into the remote or a HomePod.

Milan winger Alexis Saelemaekers had surgery on his right ankle in Amsterdam on October 13.

The operation involved cleaning the joint and stabilising it, and the club said it went well.

Saelemaekers had persistent pain and reduced ankle stability, and the ankle had already been operated on in 2024.

He was injured during training on September 29, and his expected absence is about four to five months.

Thélyson Orélien denies that AI wrote any sentence of his novel, “C’était ça ou mourir.”

The Canadian-Haitian writer says he used tools for research but wrote the book himself.

He apologized and accepted responsibility for plagiarizing texts by established authors after moving to Canada.

He says he began writing the novel in Quebec in 2017 and finished a first draft in 2019.

Researchers say muscle and liver cells can retain signs of past exercise even after someone stops training.

In studies using mice, animals that exercised, took a break and trained again grew larger muscles than mice with no training history.

Their muscle cells also matched energy production to demand more effectively, and this ability remained during inactivity.

The researchers say liver cells also store exercise memories and release enzymes that help supply fuel to working muscles.