The lockdown has kept Shanghai's 25 million residents mostly at home, forcing manufacturers to halt operations, and has made China's GDP growth target of around 5.5 percent look increasingly difficult to achieve. Covid outbreaks across the country ...

Known as the Day of the Sun in the nuclear-armed North, the April 15 birthday of the late Kim Il Sung -- grandfather of current leader Kim Jong Un -- is one of the most important dates in Pyongyang's political calendar. There has been a steady drum...

Israeli police said that before dawn on Friday "dozens of masked men" marched into Al-Aqsa chanting and setting off fireworks before crowds hurled stones towards the Western Wall -- considered the holiest site where Jews can pray. The Palestinian R...

Kim's five birdies included three in her last six holes as she pulled three strokes clear of Australia's Sarah Kemp in search of a fifth LPGA tour title. "First of all, I'm satisfied," said Kim, a 26-year-old whose resume includes a major title at ...

Vereha, 34, is a co-founder of non-profit organisation Code4Romania that launched a platform called "dopomoha", the Ukrainian word for "help". "The pressure is enormous, because things can change from one hour to another," especially when the flow ...

The Kosovo couple have hidden their relationship for eight years. Whenever they meet in public, common friends are invited in order not to raise suspicion. They also hesitate to even post on social media at the same time. "It's difficult to live a...

Shanghai, a city of 25 million and China's economic engine room, has become the heart of the country's biggest outbreak since the peak of the first virus wave in Wuhan over two years ago, rattling the country's adherence to a strict zero-Covid polic...

"Seven injured people were taken to hospital to be treated for upper body injuries," a member of the Palestinian Red Crescent told AFP. Witnesses said that Palestinian protestors threw stones at Israeli security forces, who fired rubber bullets at...

Scores of men -- their faces covered -- walked barefoot as they flogged themselves with bamboo whips under a blazing sun near the capital Manila, while others carried wooden crosses as they were beaten, in a ritual frowned upon by the Church. Roy B...

Pointing towards a charred nine-storey building, the retired construction worker with bright red hair says: "There are burnt corpses in there." "All these buildings were built by my generation. And now they have bombed everything," says 78-year-old...

Central banks in several major economies including the United States, Canada and Britain have already started raising interest rates to contain prices, but the European Central Bank on Thursday kept its stimulus plans and rates unchanged. That sent...

Biologists studied over 7,000 recordings from 411 pigs, from the brief squeaks of satisfaction at feeding time to the desperate cries at slaughter, before classifying them into 19 different categories. "We show that it's possible basically to figur...

Irregular rainfall, rising temperatures and intensive pumping have overtaxed the world's lowest freshwater lake, which for decades has served as the Jewish state's main sweetwater reservoir. Israel now plans to tackle the challenge by reversing the...

South Koreans will be required to wear masks indoors "for a considerable time ahead," authorities said, adding that they may lift the requirement to mask outdoors in two weeks' time, if cases continue to fall. "The midnight business curfew and a 10...

For Rola Amer and Sara Safwat, their curls were once a career-hindering nuisance. Now part of an aesthetic liberation movement sweeping Egypt in recent years, they own a curly hair salon that caters to women and men like them. Amer used to spend ho...