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.

Recreational marijuana store opens with a line in Northampton, Massachusetts. The state joins the US federal capital Washington and 9 other states in legalizing cannabis for recreational use.

Canada is just days away from legalizing cannabis and becoming only the second country in the world to do so on October 17, following Uruguay, which led the way in December 2013.

55-year-old retiree Zhang Yongli and dozens of neighbours liven up a Shanghai park by doing the jitterbug, part of a public dance craze that has become China's national pastime.

Immunologists James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan talk to the press after winning the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research into how the body's natural defences can fight cancer.

The Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin has died at the age of 76 in her home in Detroit. The current pastor at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan, where Franklin's father was the reverend, remembers the legendary singer.