China's National Anthem Law came into effect October 1 to ensure appropriate performance of the song. Violators can be detained for up to 15 days, even be held criminally liable.
According to the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the United States has a channel to directly communicate with North Korea, which it uses to find out what North Korea wants to discuss.
The Catalan regional government announced that it would permit voters to vote at any open polling station in the region, if their defined polling district was closed.
On Sunday, the Polish government cut retirement age to 65 for men and 60 for women despite a common European trend to consistently increase the pension age due to the increase in life expectancy.
On Saturday, the Polish Parliament has set up an investigative committee whose goal is to calculate the amount of reparations that Germany still owns for Poland's occupation during the World War II.
According to a poll result announced on Saturday, the Brazilian Ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's support increased to 35%, up from 30% in June.
In a meeting with the White House officials this week, members of the Puerto Rican Financial Oversight and Management Board asked for more financial aid to resolve the post-hurricane humanitarian crisis.
On Saturday, the Foreign Ministry of Thailand said that it was "closely following the situation in the Rakhine State with concern" and noted that it would provide aid to Bangladesh and Myanmar.
On Saturday, the White House ordered to put Venezuela, Iran and four other nations to a blacklist of states that failed to suppress human trafficking. The decision was aimed to even more strongly isolate these countries from the US.
The CBI survey showed that the UK economic growth cooled in the three-month period to September, though companies remained upbeat on their near-term outlook.
The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stated that a constructive and strong US-Chine ties are important to the stability and prosperity of the world.
The White House stated it ordered Venezuela, Iran and four African countries to be added to a US list of nations accused of human trafficking failings, isolating them from the US.
South Korea government's data revealed that the country's exports to the main trading partners including US, EU and China all marked double-digit yearly growth over the course of September.
Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson began citing Rudyard Kipling's Mandalay poem when visiting Myanmar's most famous Buddhist temple on Saturday but was interrupted by the UK's ambassador to the country.
On Saturday, the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reported that the US was directly communicating with Pyongyang, trying to find a solution to the conflict.
A top figure of the Austrian Social Democratic Party Georg Niedermuehlbichler is to resign over smear online campaign against the country's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz.
Air France confirmed on Saturday that the flight AF066 Paris-Los Angeles was forced to divert to Canada due to ‘serious damage' to one of its engines.
Kyrgyzstan's GKNB state security service detained on Saturday an opposition lawmaker for alleged planning of riots and a coup ahead of presidential election.
Thousands of people marched the streets of Dublin, Ireland, on Saturday in an effort to protest the country's strict abortion laws.
Anti-globalisation demonstrators collided with police in Turin, Italy, this Saturday in an effort to reach the location of the G7 meeting.
The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Saturday that the Unites States was making enquiries through direct channels about North Korea's willingness to start a dialogue.
Spanish police had blocked off more than a half of all Catalonian school that had been earmarked as polling stations for an illegal independence referendum.
Dozens of anti-fascists and neo-Nazis were arrested during the extreme right-wing NMR march in Gothenburg, Sweden since they have clashed with the police.
The EC stated that it has declined to rank which cities would host European banking authorities and drugs regulator after Brexit, relying on member states' decision.