Press freedom is under attack in every corner of the globe, with journalists continually harassed, jailed and killed, UN officials and media outlets have warned.

A boy gunned down fellow pupils in a Belgrade school yesterday morning in a pre-planned attack, shooting dead eight plus a security guard and wounding seven others, Serbian officials said.

Some 258 million people needed emergency food aid last year because of conflict, economic shocks and climate disasters, a UN report said yesterday, a sharp rise from 193 million the previous year.

The World Bank’s 25-member executive board yesterday elected former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga to a five-year term as president, effective June 2, ushering in an Indian-born finance and development expert charged with revamping the lender to tackle climate change and other global crises.

Persistent fighting between Sudan’s rival generals undermined efforts to firm up a truce yesterday, as a senior UN official arrived for talks on providing relief to millions of trapped civilians.

The United Nations yesterday warned of a growing likelihood the weather phenomenon El Nino will develop in coming months, fuelling higher global temperatures and possibly new heat records.

Russia yesterday accused Ukraine of attacking the Kremlin with drones overnight in a failed bid to kill President Vladimir Putin, as Ukraine announced it had “nothing to do” with the attack on the Kremlin.

Journalism is being battered by propaganda and increasingly sophisticated fakes, aided by AI software and a failure of oversight from tech companies, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said yesterday.

Bangladesh has called for an immediate permanent ceasefire in Sudan and the start of the peace process

Russia accused Ukraine today of attacking the Kremlin with drones overnight in a failed bid to kill President Vladimir Putin, according to the state-run RIA news agency..The Kremlin said it considered the attack to be a "planned terrorist action" and reserved the right to retaliate, RIA re

A 14-year-old boy shot his teacher in a Belgrade classroom this morning before opening fire on other students and security guards, killing eight pupils and a security guard, Serbia's interior ministry said..Milan Milosevic, the father of one of the pupils at the Vladislav Ribnikar elementa

Hollywood film and television writers went on strike on Tuesday, shutting down late-night TV shows, and took their demands for higher pay to the doors of major studios in a labor dispute that hinges on how the streaming boom is changing show business

Police in London on Tuesday arrested a man allegedly armed with a knife and accused of throwing suspected shotgun cartridges into the grounds of Buckingham Palace

According to Unicef estimates, 640 million girls and women today were married when they were under 18. At present, an estimated 12 million girls are becoming child brides each year

The fighting in Sudan has caused more than 330,000 people to flee their homes within the country, with over 100,000 others escaping over the borders, the United Nations said yesterday.

A computer scientist often dubbed “the godfather of artificial intelligence” has quit his job at Google to speak out about the dangers of the technology, US media

“There is a ray of hope at last. I can’t express my feeling, my gratitude to the Bangladesh government. We went through hell in the last 15 days. We did not even think we could return home alive.”

A US government panel renewed calls Monday to blacklist India over religious freedom, saying that treatment of minorities has continued to worsen under

A global crackdown has halted a major “dark web” marketplace, with international police arresting 288 suspects and recovering more than 50 million euros

More than 20,000 Russian troops have died and another 80,000 were wounded in five months of fighting in eastern Ukraine, particularly in Bakhmut, a White House official said Monday.