Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finished first and second in the opening round of Brazil's presidential election. They'll meet in a runoff on Oct. 25.

Right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro surged to a surprise lead over incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the first round of Brazil’s presidential race, a result that if confirmed in final counts would rally markets and position him as the favorite in a runoff later this month.

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro wants to return a right-wing movement to power in Brazil, while leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is seeking a fourth

Brazilians are voting in a pivotal presidential election featuring incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro

Pedro Sánchez is gambling that anger over high rents and toward right-wing lawmakers who blocked legislation will galvanize support for his socialist party.

Sánchez says Spain will head to the polls on 29 November after recent defeats on measures aimed at addressing the country's housing crisis.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced early elections Monday after his government suffered a bruising legislative defeat last week on emergency measures related to the country’s housing crisis.

Pedro Sanchez's announcement comes after his series of measures to tackle the housing crisis was defeated in parliament on Friday.

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.

Scientists ⁠to Karl ⁠Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann ​and Georg Nagel won ‌the 2026 Nobel ‌Prize in ⁠Physiology ⁠or Medicine for "discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels ​and optogenetics," the award-giving body said on ​Monday.

The 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists – Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel – for their work developing a technique to decode the inner workings of the brain.

This year’s Nobel Prizes kick off with the awarding of the medicine prize at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm

The US Air Force has brought home its bombers stationed at a US-run military air base in England used to strike Iran following an investigation into a planned terror attack at the RAF Fairford base.

The United States has moved long-range bombers back to their American home stations after an unspecified new threat, according to a US official, days after the British government arrested a number of individuals in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to target the UK airbase where the planes had been stationed.

A statement says all bombers deployed to RAF Fairford have been "re-deployed to their home stations" in the US.

The withdrawal came amid security concerns around the base where several suspects were arrested last week in connection with a suspected plot.

The deployment of AI-enabled gun turrets comes as Ukraine struggles to defend against Russian jet-powered drones.

Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 205 drones of various types overnight. Ukraine's air defence destroyed or jammed 172 UAVs, while hits were recorded at 13 locations.

At least three people were killed and six injured in Russian drone strikes on the Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhzhya and Dnipro, regional military administrations said on Sunday. In the Zaporizhzhya

A projectile fired during a Russian attack on Ukraine hit a passenger bus and border control booth at the Palanca–Maiaki–Udobne crossing, injuring a Moldovan border guard.

The 39-year-old woman’s body was found in her hotel room and she appeared to have been strangled to death, the Kyodo News agency reported.

Japanese police said Sunday they have arrested a U.S. Marine for the alleged robbery and murder of a woman on Okinawa

A US Marine was arrested Sunday on suspicion of murder and robbery after a woman’s body was discovered in a hotel room in Japan. The country’s prime minister has lodged a rare protest to the US, called the alleged incident “extremely brutal and heinous.

According to Japanese police, 39-year-old Yagi Anna, a resident of Naha, was found dead inside a hotel room in the Okinawa Saturday morning.