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.

Kerala’s High Court has kept an FIR order in force in a case involving former chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan, his daughter Veena and son-in-law P.A. Mohammed Riyas.

A two-judge bench declined to pause the order while it considers whether to let them appeal, and reserved its decision on that request.

The accused say they were not heard before a single judge directed the state’s Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau to register a case.

The dispute concerns payments from Kochi-based minerals company CMRL to Veena’s now-defunct firm Exalogic, which an income-tax panel said totalled ₹1.72 crore over three years despite no services being provided.

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.

Traders on Kalshi, a prediction market, expect US inflation to remain high even if it has already peaked this year.

They forecast that September consumer prices rose 3.6% from a year earlier, up from 3.4% in August.

That September figure is due Wednesday, and the forecast matches economists’ estimate cited in the reports.

The inflation contracts are settled using official data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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.

England have left Mikey Lewis out of their men’s Rugby League World Cup opener against Tonga in Perth.

The Hull KR half-back is one of three non-playing reserves, despite making England’s tournament squad ahead of 2025 Super League Man of Steel Jake Connor.

Harry Smith will partner captain George Williams in the halves.

AJ Brimson was chosen at full-back ahead of Jack Welsby, who is on the bench.

IDFA will open its 39th edition with “White Tiger Column”, a documentary about young recruits in Myanmar’s resistance movement.

The film follows the volunteers through 45 days of training at a jungle camp as they prepare to fight for their freedom.

Directed by Robert Mentov, Dwight Jantzi and Bryan Dickie, it will have its world premiere at the festival.

The festival runs in Amsterdam from Nov.

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.