Apple Inc introduced the HomePod, a voice-controlled speaker that can make music suggestions and adjust home temperatures, taking aim at Amazon.com Inc's Alexa feature and Echo devices.

The husband of White House adviser Kellyanne Conway criticized President Donald Trump's tweets about the administration's temporary travel ban on Monday, saying they were undercutting the Justice Department's ability to defend his policies.

"Kissing the mucus and flesh of corals with self-lubricating lips was not what we were expecting," said marine biologist Víctor Huertas of James Cook University in Australia.

David Rank, the chargé d'affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, has left the State Department over the Trump administration's decision to quit the 2015 Paris agreement to fight climate change, a senior official said on Monday.

The Light Rail Transit Line 1 will be introducing a new timetable that will increase the number of its weekday trips, the Department of Transportation said Tuesday.

The remastered version of the 1967 album sold more than 75,000 units to take the No. 3 spot on the Billboard 200.

The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday charged a federal contractor with sending classified material to a news organization that sources identified to Reuters as The Intercept, marking one of the first concrete efforts by the Trump administration to crack down on leaks to the media.

The town of Sultan Kudarat in Maguindanao was declared in a state of calamity Monday after some 20,000 residents when overflowing rivers flooded 16 villages.

Y.O.U. competed against finalists from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Japan, U.S., Vietnam, and South Korea.

(UPDATE - 12:49 p.m.) Marines recovered some P52.2 million in cash and P23.7 million worth of stale cheques from a house in Barangay Mapandi, Marawi City that had been a strongpoint of extremist gunmen battling government forces over the past two weeks.

A soldier and three members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters were killed when gunmen attacked an Army detachment in Barangay Tukanalipao, Mamasapano in Maguindanao province Sunday morning, the military said.

The first witness was aggressively cross-examined by Cosby's lawyer in a preview of what the plaintiff can expect.

(UPDATE - 9:39 a.m.) Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Tuesday police were treating a deadly siege in the southern city of Melbourne as an "act of terrorism" after a claim by the Islamic State group that one of its fighters was the gunman responsible.

The sooner we recognize that there are histories apart from our own, the sooner we can learn from each other and build a nation less vulnerable to division - one that recognizes and respects the narratives of our people.

The Arab world's strongest powers cut ties with Qatar on Monday over alleged support for Islamists and Iran, re-opening a festering wound just two weeks after US President Donald Trump's demand for Muslim states to fight terrorism.