Stockholm announces British author Kazuo Ishiguro, best known for his novel "The Remains of the Day" , has won the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize. The 69-year-old author reacts to the news in London.

Half store, half museum, Apple is set to open its second location in the US capital within the historic Carnegie Library, just blocks from the White House and the Capitol building.

Thousands of Uber and Lyft drivers in the US turn off their apps and strike, protesting pay and working conditions at the big ride-hailing services. An estimated 10,000 New York drivers joined the strike.

Climate protesters from the 'Extinction Rebellion' movement disrupt service on London's Docklands Light Railway (DLR), with two clambering on the roof of a train at Canary Wharf station and one attaching himself to a carriage with superglue. Some 300 protesters have been arrested so far in three days of demonstrations.

The prestigious apartments of the Queen at the Palace of Versailles will reopen to the public after a three-year renovation.

A 40-metre indoor waterfall cascading through a steel and glass dome is unveiled at the heart of a vast complex in Singapore's main airport.