Politics
Hashim Thaçi, Kosovo’s president, has resigned to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the war for independence from Serbia between 1998 and 1999.
Activism
More than 100 pilot whales that became stranded on a beach in Sri Lanka have been rescued and returned to sea.
world
A giant sculpture of a whale’s tail in the Netherlands managed to stop an overground metro train from plunging into the ground after it failed to stop at the end of the line.
Impact
New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has appointed a Māori woman as the country’s foreign minster for the first time in history.
Activism
Tens of thousands of people in Taiwan held the world’s biggest pride march since the COVID-19 pandemic began on Saturday, after the country reported more than 200 days without a local transmission of COVID-19.
Cute
Nathan Hrushkin, a 12-year-old boy, was out hiking with his dad in the Albertan Badlands in Alberta, Canada, in July when he spotted bones protruding from a rock that turned out to be a dinosaur skeleton which dates back 69 million years.
Cute
For the second year in a row, Taiwanese online shopping platform, Shopee, held a “down-to-earth” Halloween party, where attendees could only dress up as normal people
LGBTQ
The Taiwan military’s first same-sex weddings saw two women marry their wives in another landmark moment for LGBTQ rights in Asia.
Activism
Thousands of women have taken to the streets across Poland for days in a row following a ruling that bans abortion for almost all cases.
Activism
Some residents in Japan’s Nara have invented digestible, “deer-friendly” bags to help stop deer in Nara Park from eating plastic bags and food wrappers left behind from tourists.
Video
“Well, this is Iceland.”
Activism
The K-pop group encouraged young people not to lose hope despite the isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.