Nikoloz Basilashvili won his sixth straight match Tuesday, beating Denis Shapovalov 6-2, 6-2 in the first round of the Shanghai Masters.

The Latest on South Korea saying that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wants Pope Francis to visit (all times local):

Japanese police are investigating the death of a zookeeper killed in an apparent attack by a white tiger.

The voices of the witnesses are quiet. Their heads are projected on screens behind a chain-link fence in complete darkness at the site of a former monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Their topic: the most painful moments in the history of Czechoslovakia.

The Latest on Hurricane Michael (all times local):

Bulgarian prosecutors have opened an investigation into the suspected misuse of European Union funds, following the brutal slaying of a television reporter who highlighted possible government corruption.

Indonesia’s disaster agency says the death toll from the Sulawesi island earthquake and tsunami has climbed past 2,000.

China’s government has promised not to weaken its currency to boost exports and rejected U.S. concern about the sagging yuan as groundless and irresponsible.

A Dutch appeals court has upheld a landmark ruling that ordered the Dutch government to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25 percent by 2020 from benchmark 1990 levels.

A top United Nations official says Qatar is buying fuel to restart the only power plant in the beleaguered Gaza Strip.