President Vladimir Putin has ordered Wagner fighters to sign an oath of allegiance to the Russian state after a deadly plane crash believed to have killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, the volatile chief of the mercenary group.

Nasa and SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft blasted off on Saturday carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station.

Pope Francis yesterday denounced “disinformation” and fake news spread in an effort to influence public opinion as journalism’s principal offence.

Japan’s fisheries agency yesterday said fish tested in waters around the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant did not contain detectable levels of the radioactive isotope tritium, Kyodo news service reported.

The descendants of former British prime minister William Gladstone apologised for their family's slaveholding past in Guyana on Friday, and urged the United Kingdom to discuss reparations in the Caribbean.

The Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) is investigating property agents who might have facilitated property transactions relating to Singapore's recent money laundering case that involved about $1 billion in assets

Russian authorities announced on Friday that they had recovered 10 bodies from the scene of a plane crash presumed to have killed the chief of the mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin

At least 10 people were killed and more than 20 injured as a fire broke out in a train compartment of a train parked at Madurai Railway Station in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu early today

Wildfires in Canada's Northwest Territories on Friday forced the evacuation of the entire town of Hay River, a community of about 4,000 people on the Great Slave Lake, authorities said.

Niger's military rulers, who seized control of the government in July, gave the French ambassador 48 hours to leave the country, Niamey's foreign ministry said in a statement Friday.

Taiwan's defence ministry said on Saturday morning that over the past 24 hours it had detected 20 Chinese air force planes entering the island's air defence zone, including a combat drone the flew along Taiwan's Pacific east coast.

Hawaii officials released the names of 338 people still missing more than two weeks after the deadliest US wildfire in more than a century swept through the resort town of Lahaina.

War and hunger threaten to “consume” Sudan where hundreds of thousands of malnourished children are at risk of dying, as fighting between rival generals rages on, the United Nations warned yesterday.

The world’s major tech titans must crack down on illegal content and keep European users safe online from yesterday, when far-reaching EU rules force digital firms to fall into line.

The Kremlin yesterday rejected rumours it had ordered the death of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, presumed to have died in a plane crash two months after leading a mutiny in Russia.

Dozens of African media figures yesterday called on the new military regime in Niger to respect press freedoms after a series of incidents.

The Kremlin said yesterday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had no plans to attend the G20 summit in India in September in person.

Russia said yesterday Ukraine had fired a missile towards Moscow and attacked Crimea with 42 drones, in what would be one of the biggest known coordinated Ukrainian air attacks to date on Russian-held territory.

When a British economist coined the BRIC acronym two decades ago to denote Brazil, Russia, India and China, he didn’t have in mind an alliance that would seek to challenge Western dominance in global affairs.

Former US president Donald Trump was arrested at a Georgia jail Thursday on racketeering and conspiracy charges and released on a $200,000 bond after having a historic mug shot taken.