Iranian authorities have whipped a woman 74 times for “violating public morals” and fined her for not covering her head, the judiciary said.

Top US and European diplomats yesterday sought ways to keep the Gaza offensive from spreading further in the Middle East, but three months after the start of the conflict, more bloodshed underlined the difficulties they face.

A woman in her 90s trapped for five days under rubble caused by a huge earthquake in central Japan was rescued against the odds, but snow and storms were further complicating relief efforts on Sunday

China announced sanctions on Sunday against five US defence firms in response to their involvement in arms sales to self-ruled Taiwan, which Beijing claims as part of its territory

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Sunday that an Israeli air strike killed two journalists in the Palestinian territory

Israel said it had "dismantled" Hamas's military leadership in northern Gaza as its war against the Palestinian group entered a fourth month Sunday, with fears mounting that the conflict could spread into neighbouring Lebanon

US President Joe Biden launched his harshest attack yet on Donald Trump as he kickstarted his 2024 reelection campaign Friday, accusing the Republican of echoing Nazi Germany and posing a threat to democracy.

The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a ruling by Colorado’s highest court that would keep him off the presidential primary ballot in the western state.

OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft were sued on Friday in Manhattan federal court by a pair of nonfiction authors who say

On the right side of its body, the bird flaunted the typical blue plumage and black head of the male Green Honeycreeper. On the left, it was a beautiful grass green.

Communications intercepts collected by the United States confirmed that Islamic State’s (IS) Afghanistan-based branch carried out twin bombings in Iran that killed nearly 100 people, two sources familiar with the intelligence told Reuters on Friday.

A white US police officer was sentenced to 14 months in prison Friday over the 2019 death of a young Black man who was put in a police chokehold and injected with ketamine.

The West Bank has experienced an “unmatched surge” in the number of new Israeli settlements since the start of the war in Gaza, an Israel-based NGO has said.

Russia yesterday announced its forces shot down four Ukrainian missiles over Moscow-annexed Crimea overnight.

Alaska Airlines ALK.N will temporarily ground its fleet of 65 Boeing 737 MAX 9 BA.N aircraft after a cabin panel blowout forced a jetliner loaded with passengers to make an emergency landing on Friday,

A Myanmar rebel alliance has gained control of a key town along the country’s volatile northern border with China after weeks of fierce fighting with junta troops, the alliance and the junta said.

North Korea’s military fired over 60 artillery rounds near Yeonpyeong Island yesterday, Seoul’s military said, a day after both sides staged live-fire drills in the same area near their contested maritime border.

Lebanon’s Iranian-backed Hezbollah group yesterday said it had fired rockets at Israel and its arch-foe said it had struck a “terrorist cell” in retaliation, as top US and EU diplomats visited the region to seek ways to halt spillover from the war.

The Indian Space Research Organisation’s inaugural solar mission, Aditya-L1, has reached its destination within the anticipated four-month timeframe, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday. 

Canada said on Friday an aircraft was sent this week to Jamaica to address a maintenance issue with the plane that took PM Justin Trudeau on a visit to Caribbean, enabling him to fly back home.