The National Games torch relay went ahead with much fanfare in Hong Kong. As Elvis Yu reports, it was held concurrently with similar relays in Guangzhou, Macau, and Shenzhen yesterday, one week before the National Games Opening Ceremony on November 9.

Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law has said more than 30 percent of the tickets for the National Games' Hong Kong events have been sold. Wallis Wang has more details:

Chief Executive John Lee has expressed the hope for a "more connected, innovative, and prosperous" Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit next year, as he wrapped up his Apec trip. Frank Yung reports from South Korea.

Financial Secretary Paul Chan says there's a lot of room for cooperation between Hong Kong and the Middle East in areas, such as finance and innovation and technology. As Damon Pang reports, it comes after Chan led a delegation to Saudi Arabia where they met business and political leaders:

Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong has said that Hong Kong needs to develop more facilities to house computing power in order to serve the Greater Bay Area and beyond. Wallis Wang reports:

British police say they have one lone suspect in custody in connection with a mass stabbing on a London-bound train on Saturday which put eleven people in hospital. A 32 year-old British man is now the only suspect after another man arrested earlier was released after officers concluded he was not involved in the attack. Five of the injured have been discharged from hospital, while police say two patients remain in a life-threatening condition. Jamie Clarke has more:

RTHK's UK correspondent Peter Anderson said passengers recalled chaotic scenes on the train at the time of the attack. He spoke to Carol Musgrave:

Israel has urged Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah in accordance with ceasefire terms agreed last year. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Hezbollah is seeking to rearm. He says Israel would exercise its right to self-defence under last year’s ceasefire accord, as Jamie Clarke reports:

Americans from several states and cities are heading to the polls on Tuesday, local time, to pick their legislators, local office representatives and mayors. The off-year elections are drawing quite a bit of attention, in part because they are sometimes seen as a referendum on the president and his party. Our US correspondent, Simon Marks tells Ben Tse why the polls are still important, even though they pale in comparison to the mid-terms next year:

Nigeria has suggested a meeting between its president and US counterpart Donald Trump, after the US leader threatened military action over what he described as a threat to Nigerian Christians by jihadists. A spokesman for president Bola Ahmed Tinubu said it would welcome US help in fighting Islamist insurgents as long as its territorial integrity is respected. Jamie Clarke reports:

A space expert says it's impressive that the Shenzhou-21 spaceship was able to break the time record for docking with the Tiangong space station. The Shenzhou-21 docked in the early hours of Saturday, just three and a half hours after its launch. The three Shenzhou-21 astronauts will carry out the handover mission alongside the Shenzhou-20 crew over the next few days. Professor Quentin Parker, the director of Laboratory for Space Research at the University of Hong Kong, also says he's excited about the nearly 30 experiments that will be conducted by the new team during their six-month mission in orbit. He spoke to Elvis Yu.

In sports...Kitchee have climbed to the top of the Hong Kong Premier League table after a 5-nil crushing of Kowloon City. North District, meanwhile, prevailed over Southern District 2-1 to sit second in the table behind Kitchee on goal difference. Our Asia football correspondent, Chris KL Lau, has more on this past weekend's action: