Police in Hong Kong said a homemade bomb was detonated on Sunday amid violent protests. The device was hidden in a bush and was triggered by a mobile phone as a police vehicle passed nearby in the Mong Kok district of Kowloon. The bomb caused no damage or injuries. Meanwhile, HK leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday ruled out making any concessions to pro-democracy protesters.

The death toll resulting from the typhoon that hit Japan has climbed to 66 on Tuesday. Rescuers slogged through mud and debris in an increasingly grim search for the missing, estimated at 15. Typhoon Hagibis, which smashed into central and eastern Japan, has left more than 200 people injured. About 133,000 households remain without water while 22,000 lacked electricity.

Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate arrived in Pakistan on Monday, beginning a five-day visit aimed at boosting ties and addressing challenges such as climate change. The visit to Pakistan is a first by members of the British royal family in more than a decade.

The parents of a British teen killed in a car crash involving a US diplomat’s wife vowed on Monday to keep fighting for justice. Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, parents of Harry, are in New York on a visit intended to put pressure on the Trump administration to have Anne Sacoolas sent back to face British investigators. Sacoolas was driving on the wrong side of the road when the accident happened.

Three staffers at a North Carolina assisted-living facility have been accused of running a ’fight club’ in which they encouraged the elderly residents to get into a physical altercation. Marilyn McKey, 32, Tonacia Tyson, 20, and Taneshia Jordan, 26, were each charged with assaulting disabled persons in connection with the abuse at the Danby House in Winston-Salem. The three even filmed the fight.

A one-year-old girl died Monday after her parents accidentally left her inside the family’s car. The cops said the parents left the girl in the Jeep sometime in the morning and went about their day. The police found the girl unconscious when they arrived at the scene. An investigation is ongoing to decide whether to charge the parents. This is the 50th case of a child dying in a hot car this year.

A man in Northern California has been arrested on suspicion of killing four people after he showed up at a police station with a body in his car. Authorities say the man walked into the lobby of the police department and confessed to the killings at his apartment in Roseville. The names of the suspect in custody and the victims have not been released.

In an interview with The Sunday Times, mother-daughter duo Hillary and Chelsea Clinton disagreed on the matter of transgender self-identification. When asked if someone with a beard and a penis can ever be a woman, Chelsea replied emphatically, ’Yes’. The journalist wrote that Hillary, instead, looked ’uneasy’ and blamed generational gaps for being less accepting.

The white Fort Worth police officer accused of shooting a black woman inside her home over the weekend, killing her, has been jailed on a murder charge. Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was gunned down early Saturday after police were summoned to her Fort Worth home to conduct a welfare check by a neighbor who reported seeing Jefferson’s front door open.

Mark Zuckerberg is facing a backlash after admitting that he secretly met with conservative politicians. Politico reported that Zuckerberg held ’off the record’ discussions as he met with conservative talkshow hosts, journalists and at least one Republican lawmaker. The website said the dinners began in July as Zuckerberg sought to ’cultivate friends on the right’.

In an interview, former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter said he used ’poor judgment’ in serving on the board of a Ukrainian gas company. ’I did nothing wrong at all’, he added. The interview was the first time Hunter had responded to questions about his foreign business ties. He did acknowledge that he would ’probably not’ have been asked to serve on the board if his father was not VP.

The fourth Democratic presidential debate is set to take place Tuesday with 12 candidates appearing at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio. Fundraising and polling qualification thresholds threaten four of the candidates not making the Nov. debate. These include Julián Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Amy Klobuchar and Beto O’Rourke.

In a testimony before Congress, Fiona Hill, President Trump’s former top Russia adviser, raised concerns about Rudy Giuliani’s role in US foreign policy toward Ukraine. Hill told lawmakers on Monday that she saw ’wrongdoing’ in the US foreign policy and tried to report it to officials including the National Security Council’s attorney.

Rudy Giuliani said Monday that he was paid $500,000 for work he did for a company co-founded by the Ukrainian-American businessman arrested last week on campaign finance charges. Giuliani said he was hired to consult on Fraud Guarantee’s technologies and provide legal advice on regulatory matters. Prosecutors are ’examining Giuliani’s interactions’ with Lev Parnas and another businessman.

The House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry against President Trump turns on Tuesday to George Kent, a career diplomat. Kent, a deputy assistant secretary of state, responsible for US policy toward six former Soviet republics including Ukraine, is scheduled to appear behind closed doors.

The US Energy Information Administration, in its latest short-term energy outlook, has cut its forecast of oil production by the end of 2020 for the fourth straight month. It now expects output to rise by just 370,000 bpd over the course of next year. This is the slowest growth in four years. At the same time, the number of rigs drilling for oil in the US has fallen in each of the last 10 months.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is further downgrading its outlook for the world economy, predicting that growth this year will be the weakest since 2008. The new forecast predicts global growth of 3% this year, down 0.2 percentage point from its previous forecast in July. For the US this year, the IMF projects a 2.4% gain, down from 2.9% in 2018.

UnitedHealth Group raised its 2019 earnings forecast for the third time this year. UnitedHealth raised its full-year adjusted earnings forecast to between $14.90 to $15 per share, from an earlier forecast of between $14.70 and $14.90.

The Grayscale Digital Large Cap fund has received the approval to trade publicly under the ticker GDLCF. The fund, made up of some of the most liquid digital coins, will be now available to retail buyers. Until recently, the fund was only offered to accredited investors, with shares issued based on demand.

Forex trading platform FXCM Group has launched a basket of five cryptocurrencies aimed at retail investors. Called CryptoMajor, the basket product includes Bitcoin (BTC), XRP, Litecoin (LTC), Bitcoin cash (BCH) and Ethereum (ETH).

Mastercard, Visa, eBay and Stripe decided to pull out of the Libra Association, dealing a body blow to Facebook’s Cryptocurrency project. Stripe and Visa cited the need to focus on their own core operations, but said that they were open to come back if regulatory headwinds cleared.