The Syrian army is gaining the fight in Daesh's last pocket in central Syria on Saturday, right after taking Uqairabat village on Friday.
Russia reported on Saturday that the President Vladimir Putin would not be present at the United Nations General Assembly in New York this month.
Vietnam's property developer Vingroup launched a car factory project worth $1-1.5B during its first phase, the company announced on Saturday.
According to motorist advocacy group AAA, average gasoline prices in the US increased to $2.59 a gallon this Saturday following Hurricane Harvey.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration informed on Saturday that Australia and East Timor had reached an important agreement in terms maritime border, thus solving a decade-old dispute.
Pakistani Muslims gathered in prayer grounds and mosques to celebrate the second largest Islamic festival Eid al-Adha on Saturday.
The China Securities Regulatory Commission proposed a revision for the current order of managing stock exchanges to ensure orderly markets, local media informed on Saturday.
Vietnam had detected operational faults in the State Bank of Vietnam, including poor supervision and inability to prevent corruption, the country's government reported on Saturday.
Colombia's Revolutionary Alternative Common Force, formerly known as the FARC, intends to form a coalition for the country's general election in 2018.
The US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said that the new NAFTA should include a deal that more than 70% of North American vehicle content was built in the US, Mexico and Canada.
The UK is required to increase spending on new power plants, electric car charging points and grid networks to avoid power shortages after the ban on diesel and petrol cars.
The House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan urges the President Donald Trump to keep the DACA program that protects immigrants who entered the nation illegally as children.
The Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Brazilian counterpart Michel Temer agreed to further improve the strategic partnership between the two nations.
The US and South Korea agreed to revise a treaty which limits the number of missiles in the country after a meeting between the US President Donald Trump and his Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in.
The central State Bank of Vietnam poorly supervises credit institutions and is inefficient in preventing corruption, the government says.
The White House revealed on Friday that the US President Donald Trump was set to nominate the former NEC Deputy Director Kenneth Juster as the Ambassador to India.
Late on Friday, the US President Donald Trump nominated Robert Jackson, a law professor at the Columbia University, for a seat on the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
On Friday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the Pfizer's Mylotarg medicine for patients with the acute myeloid leukemia.
On Friday, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that Germany might "rethink" relations with Turkey after another two German citizens were detained in Antalya.
On Friday, the US Energy Secretary Rick Perry endorsed the release of 4.5M barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to cope with disruptions caused by the Hurricane Harvey.
On Friday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission decided to withdraw its fraud lawsuit against the New York Global Group's founder Benjamin Wey.
On Friday, crude oil prices lost 36 cents and settled down at $52.50 a barrel, as one-fourth of the US refining sector remained closed after the Hurricane Harvey.
On Friday, the US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan urged the US President Donald Trump not to cancel the DACA program that protects illegal underage immigrants.
Microsoft announced on Friday that it planned to introduce new features with Windows 10 update, so called "mixed reality" features in the October software release.