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Southern China storms kill four, force mass evacua...
Four people are dead and 10 others missing following storms that battered southern China, state media said Monday, with tens of th...
'Tomb Raider' owner Embracer splits into three com...
Sweden's Embracer, owner of the "Tomb Raider" franchise, announced Monday it would split into three separate companies in a major...
Indian prodigy, 17, makes chess history
A 17-year-old from India will become the youngest player to challenge for the World Chess Championship crown after winning a major...
Ecuador leader hails apparent approval of extradit...
An early exit poll on Sunday showed overwhelming Ecuadoran voter support for the extradition of mafia bosses to US prisons and oth...
French basilica displays rediscovered Raphael pain...
Visitors queued up at a southern French basilica Sunday to see a rediscovered painting by Italian renaissance painter Raphael.
'War against women': Iran ramps up crackdown as re...
Executions of convicts, arrests of dissidents and a resurgence in patrols enforcing the obligatory wearing of hijabs: Iran is step...
Trump postpones first rally since trial began, due...
Donald Trump called off a rally on Saturday, the Republican candidate's first campaign event since his criminal trial in New York...
Kenya pays military homage to army chief killed in...
With a 19-gun cannon salute and a religious ceremony Kenya on Saturday paid a military tribute to its army chief who died in a hel...
Elon Musk's X fights Australian watchdog over chur...
Elon Musk's X said Saturday it will fight an Australian watchdog's order to take down content related to the brutal stabbing of a...
'Early-stage' AI begins to make waves at China sex...
Among the rows of vibrators, rubber torsos and leather harnesses at a Chinese sex toys exhibition in Shanghai this weekend, the be...
Glowering, threats and Al Capone: what faces the T...
Terrorists, mafia bosses -- and Donald Trump. The common thread? When they go on trial, the jurors have such a tough task that the...
Trump jury set for opening statements
Donald Trump's unprecedented criminal trial is set for opening statements next week after final jury selection ended Friday, leavi...
Haiti sees surge of deaths amid instability crisis...
A soaring wave of gang violence in Haiti left 1,660 people dead and some 850 injured in the first three months of 2024, a UN repor...
Second Ecuadoran mayor killed ahead of anti-crime...
The mayor of a mining town in violence-riddled Ecuador was shot dead Friday, the second such killing in days ahead of a weekend re...
Man self-immolates outside Trump trial as jury sel...
A man set himself on fire Friday outside the courthouse where at almost the same moment, full jury selection was completed in the...
French police detain intruder at Iranian consulate...
French authorities Friday detained a man suspected of entering the Iranian consulate in Paris and falsely claiming to be armed wit...
Situation 'unstable' at Copenhagen landmark after...
Three days after a fire which ravaged Copenhagen's historic former stock exchange broke out, emergency services said Friday that t...
Kyrgyzstan's TikTok block builds censorship fears
In her photography studio in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Aku Sharsheeva, tried unsuccessfully to connect to TikTok this week.
Court aims to wrap Trump jury selection ahead of o...
The judge in Donald Trump's criminal trial hoped to wrap up jury selection Friday before opening arguments start next week in the...
Migrant rescuers vindicated after Italy court drop...
An Italian court threw out charges Friday against crew members of migrant rescue ships, ending a controversial case seven years af...
Remote Indonesia volcano erupts again after thousa...
A remote Indonesian volcano sent a tower of ash spewing into the sky Friday, after nearly half a dozen eruptions earlier this week...
Indonesia on alert for more eruptions from remote...
Indonesian authorities were on alert Friday for more eruptions from a remote island volcano that forced thousands to evacuate this...
Three Filipinos dead in UAE floods: officials
Three workers from the Philippines have died in heavy flooding in the United Arab Emirates, Filipino officials announced, as the d...
Kenya mourns defence chief killed in helicopter cr...
Kenya began three days of mourning on Friday after its defence chief and nine other senior military officers were killed in a heli...
Indonesia on alert for more eruptions at remote vo...
Indonesian authorities were on alert Friday for more eruptions from a remote island volcano that forced thousands to evacuate this...
Migrant rescuers seek vindication after lengthy It...
After seven years of investigations, crew members from migrant rescue ships accused by Italy of helping human traffickers in the M...
Kenya military chopper crash kills defence chief
Kenya's defence chief and nine other top brass died on Thursday in a military helicopter crash in a remote area of the country, Pr...
'We have our jury': panel selected for Trump crimi...
A panel of 12 jurors was sworn in on Thursday to sit in judgment of Donald Trump at the unprecedented criminal trial of a former U...
Thousands of Bosnian Serbs rally against UN resolu...
Several thousand Bosnian Serbs protested Thursday in Banja Luka against a potential UN resolution to declare July 11 an internatio...
Husband of ex-Scottish leader charged over alleged...
The husband of former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon was on Thursday re-arrested and charged over alleged embezzlement as part of...
Hugs or bullets? How Mexico presidential rivals ai...
Attack violent crime at its roots or go to war with powerful drug cartels? Mexican presidential candidates are offering contrastin...
Kenya military helicopter crash kills defence chie...
Kenya's defence chief and nine other top brass died on Thursday in a military helicopter crash in a remote area of the country, Pr...