The National University of Singapore (NUS) and the telecom group Singtel has launched a joint cyber security laboratory, with the aim of protecting consumers against security threats, data leaks and other online attacks.

The battle for control of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo intensified on October 23 with air strikes, ground offensives and shelling, the morning after a resurgence in fighting ended a Russian ceasefire, a monitor and rebel groups said.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump a "sore loser" on October 23 because of his refusal at their debate last week to commit to accepting the results of the Nov. 8 election.

The most senior US diplomat for Asia has arrived in the Philippines and will meet the country's foreign minister on October 24 amid confusion over the status of ties between the two long-time allies, said the US Embassy in Manila.

VOV.VN - The 72-hour ceasefire in Yemen brokered by the UN has collapsed due to continuous fighting between Arab coalition and the Houthi forces. The impoverished country of the Arabian Peninsula is getting bogged down in months-long political crisis. 

Kurdish fighters said they had taken the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from Islamic State on October 23 as coalition forces pressed their offensive against the jihadists' last stronghold in Iraq.

The United States remains the "closest friend" of the Philippines but Manila wants to break away from a "mindset of dependency and subservience" and forge closer ties with other nations, the Philippine foreign minister said on October 22.

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promised on October 22 to foil a proposed deal for AT&T to buy Time Warner if he wins the Nov. 8 election, arguing it was an example of a "power structure" rigged against both him and voters.

Fierce fighting and air strikes broke the third day of a four-day unilateral Russian ceasefire in the divided Syrian city of Aleppo on October 22, a monitor said.

Syria's army and Russia's air force halted their bombardment of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on October 21, a monitoring group said, on the second of four consecutive daytime unilateral ceasefires in the city that have been rejected by insurgents.