1. Alisson Becker of Brazil became the World's most expensive goalkeeper while transferring clubs from Italy's Roma to England's Liverpool for a world record £56 million. The 25-year-old Brazilian has beaten Ederson Moraes (£34.7 million, Benfica to Manchester City).
2. Facebook is working on a new satellite project, named Athena, that will provide broadband internet connections to rural and underserved areas. The company aims to launch a satellite in early 2019.
3. Pakistan on Monday strongly condemned the terrorist attack at the Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul resulting in loss of several innocent lives and injuring many others.
4. Two people, including the gunman, are dead and 13 wounded in Toronto after a shooting Sunday in the busy Greektown neighborhood, adding to concern about gun violence in Canada's largest city
5. Mesut Ozil said Sunday he was quitting the German national football team, citing 'racism' in the criticism of him after the side's World Cup debacle. Ozil, who has Turkish roots, had been under fire since posing for a controversial photograph with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in May which sparked questions about his loyalty to Germany's squad ahead of the tournament in Russia.
6. A Sri Lankan Test cricketer Dhanushka Gunathilaka has been suspended after a Norwegian woman accused his friend of raping her in a hotel room where he was present, an official said Monday.
7. Daredevil Andrzej Bargiel has become the first person to ski down the world's second-highest mountain, the Polish national said Sunday. Bargiel whizzed down from the summit of Pakistan's 8,611-metre (28,251-feet) K2 to the mountain's base camp after reaching the peak with around 30 others on Saturday.
8. Japan has reopened three beaches in regions devastated by the 2011 tsunami and resulting Fukushima nuclear disaster after years of reconstruction efforts. On March 11, 2011, a devastating 9.1-magnitude quake struck under the Pacific Ocean, and the resulting tsunami caused widespread damage and claimed thousands of lives.
9. Team AUJ of the National University of Sciences and Technology, which is the first all-female team to take part in the Formula Student competition, was specially recognised at the event. The team finished at 73rd position in the race car design competition.
10. Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar on Monday announced Justice Tahira Safdar as the first ever woman chief justice of a Pakistani high court.
11. The Lahore High Court on Monday dismissed Awami Muslim League (AML) leader Sheikh Rashid’s petition challenging the decision of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to postpone elections in NA-60 constituency.
12. New Zealand became the first men's side to win consecutive Rugby World Cup Sevens titles as they beat England 33-12 in the final on Sunday.
13. Nearly 215,000 people suffer from disabilities in Pakistan, however, only nine percent (19,800) are eligible to vote in the upcoming General Election 2018, according to the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
14. Bulgaria reported on Thursday another case of the highly contagious Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) “ovine rinderpest” close to the border with Turkey.
15. Before the July 2018 elections, Pakistanis voted in eleven national contests. This count includes the presidential election held in late December 1964.