China tested a space vehicle in July, not a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile as reported by the Financial Times, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday.

The science is painfully clear: to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius -- given that we’re already at 1.1C -- means slashing carbon pollution in half by 2030, and to zero by mid-century.

A microscope Charles Darwin gave his son Leonard and which has remained in the family for nearly 200 years is headed for auction in December, and is expected to fetch up to $480,000.

Hundreds of pro-military Sudanese protesters rallied for a second day yesterday, aggravating what Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok called the “worst and most dangerous crisis” of the country’s precarious transition.

Russia yesterday reported a new record for coronavirus infections for a fourth day in a row, a day after the worst-affected country in Europe set a new death toll high.

Queen Elizabeth II’s grandson Prince William will bestow his inaugural “Earthshot” environmental prize at a gala ceremony yesterday, after a buildup marked by royal displeasure at world leaders’ inaction on climate change.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday condemned as “inexcusable” a deadly crackdown by Paris police on a 1961

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday said Turkey was in talks with the United States to buy F-16 fighters after it was kicked off the F-35 programme for purchasing a Russian missile defence system.

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The Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia operated at full capacity yesterday, with worshippers praying shoulder-to-shoulder for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.

Iran is to resume nuclear negotiations with world powers on October 21 that were suspended in June, an Iranian lawmaker said

Britain’s interior minister yesterday said MPs’ security would be beefed up, after a lawmaker was stabbed to death as he held a public meeting with constituents, in the second such attack in five years.

At least 21 people were killed in flooding caused by heavy rains and landslides in hilly areas of southern Indian state of Kerala as rescue workers recovered more bodies from the debris yesterday.

Last week, various attacks were carried out, for example, Norway, Afghanistan, England, which caused many dead and wounded.

The Saudi-led military coalition supporting Yemen’s government yesterday said it had killed at least 165 Huthi rebels in strikes south of Marib, as the battle for the strategic city rages.

A Russian MiG-31 fighter jet has been scrambled to escort a U.S. B-1B strategic bomber over the Sea of Japan, TASS news agency reported on Sunday citing the Russian military, just days after an incident with a U.S. naval destroyer in the same region.

The Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia operated at full capacity on Sunday (Oct 17), with worshippers praying shoulder-to-shoulder for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.

As many as 17 American Christian missionaries and their families, including children, were kidnapped on Saturday by gang members in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince, U.S. media reported.

The World Trade Organization said Friday its member nations had again failed to agree to suspend intellectual property rights for

The Islamic State group yesterday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a Shia mosque in the southern Afghan city of