India's Mars Orbiter Mission, nicknamed Mangalyaan, launched on 5 November 2013 from Sriharikota and reached Martian orbit on 24 September 2014. It made India the first Asian nation to reach Mars and the fourth space agency to do so, after the Soviet programme, NASA and the European Space Agency. The mission was built as a technology demonstrator, so it tested how to plan and run an interplanetary mission with a small budget and an indigenous propulsion system. It carried five scientific instruments and studied the Martian atmosphere. The probe lost contact with Earth in 2022 after a long eclipse it was not designed to survive, and ISRO declared it dead the next day.

Israeli reports also say the cabinet directed the military to prepare for a possible new attack on Iran.

Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.