Record heat is forecast around the world from the United States, where tens of millions are battling dangerously high temperatures, to Europe and Japan, in the latest example of the threat from global warming.

At least 22 people have died and 14 are missing after heavy rain caused flooding and landslides in South Korea, said officials yesterday, with thousands more ordered to evacuate their homes.

The liberal frontrunner to become Thailand’s next prime minister said yesterday he would withdraw his candidacy if parliament did not endorse him next week, after military-appointed lawmakers foiled his first attempt.

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol pledged yesterday to “expand the scale” of his country’s humanitarian and non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine, in his first visit to the war-torn country.

The government of India’s richest state Maharashtra, ruled by a Shiv Sena-BJP-NCP coalition, has formally awarded a project to redevelop the 259-hectare slum sprawl in Dharavi locality of the country’s financial capital Mumbai to an Adani Group firm

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Gujarat High Court ruling refusing to stay his conviction in a criminal defamation case over his remark "why all thieves have Modi surname"

Four Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Colombian Amazon have been released from a military hospital after a monthlong stay, authorities said Friday, adding that the siblings were doing "very well"

The Covid-19 pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis and the war in Ukraine have pushed 165 million people into poverty since 2020, the United Nations said Thursday, calling for a pause in debt repayments for developing countries.

Ukraine has received cluster bombs from the United States, munitions banned in more than 100 countries, but has pledged to only use them to dislodge concentrations of enemy soldiers.

The Tunisian coastguard said Thursday it had recovered the bodies of 13 migrants after a shipwreck off Sfax, the port where violent clashes erupted last week between migrants and residents.

India’s space agency yesterday launched a rocket that sent a spacecraft into orbit and toward a planned landing next month on the lunar south pole, an unprecedented feat that would advance India’s position as a major space power.

The WHO said yesterday it was now classifying aspartame, an artificial sweetener commonly used in soft drinks, as “possibly carcinogenic to humans” -- though the acceptable daily intake level remains unchanged.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened a new probe into alleged war crimes in Sudan, its chief prosecutor Karim Khan said Thursday, expressing major concern over escalating violence.

Foreign ministers of two dozen countries met in Indonesia yesterday with US-China rivalry, war in Ukraine and North Korean missiles dominating talks at Southeast Asia’s annual security-focused gathering.

Some 289 children are known to have died in the first half of 2023 while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, the United Nations said yesterday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was guest of honour during France's Bastille Day celebrations today, which are taking place under tight security two weeks after riots swept the country

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Southeast Asian ministers today that Washington and regional states must pressure Myanmar's ruling junta to put down its arms and return to democratic rule..Myanmar has been ravaged by deadly violence since a military coup ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's

"The end of AIDS" is still possible by 2030, the United Nations insisted Thursday, but cautioned that the world's deadliest pandemic could only be halted if leaders grasped the opportunity

The Covid-19 pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis and the war in Ukraine have pushed 165 million people into poverty since 2020, the United Nations said Thursday, calling for a pause in debt repayments for developing countries

The Associated Press is licensing a part of its archive of news stories to OpenAI under a deal that will explore generative AI's use in news, the companies said on Thursday, a move that could set the precedent for similar partnerships between the industries