Net profit hit $9.3 billion in the three months to June -- a threefold increase from the same period last year, the company said in a results statement. That contrasted sharply with a $20.4-billion loss in the first quarter, when it took a vast wri...

A 17-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces during a late Monday raid in the flashpoint West Bank district of Jenin. The army said it had operated alongside police, who arrested "two wanted terror suspects." A Palestinian security sou...

The security law was imposed by Beijing after huge democracy protests and has largely snuffed out dissent in the city. About 100 people have been charged under the law with the vast majority denied bail, held for months -- some more than a year -- ...

"Now it is time for me to try something different," said Feng, who will turn 33 on Friday, in a statement posted on her official Instagram page. The announcement comes a year after her last competitive appearance, at the Tokyo Olympics, where Feng ...

The vote is heavy with consequences for Kansans themselves, who will decide whether to remove the right to an abortion from the traditionally conservative state's constitution. But it is also being seen as a test case for abortion rights nationwide...

Areas seized by Moscow since its invasion in February have been abruptly cut off from the rest of the country and communication with those left behind is often patchy. Several people living in three regions captured by the Kremlin gave grim account...

Beijing views Taiwan as its territory and has indicated through repeated warnings that it would view the visit as a major provocation. Pelosi landed at a Malaysian air force base ahead of meetings with the prime minister and the speaker of the lowe...

World number 12 Kasatkina won 11 of the last 12 games to win 1-6, 6-2, 6-0 in Rybakina's debut match since winning her first major title. Kasatkina will next play American Taylor Townsend, who eliminated Australian Storm Sanders 6-1, 6-4 at the US ...

Federal judge Federico Villena did however order seven of the 19 to be retained in Argentina, the reports said, including four Iranians and three Venezuelans. According to the ruling disclosed by the press, the judge considered that there were stil...

The world's most-populous country has been grappling with a looming demographic crisis as it faces a rapidly ageing workforce, slowing economy and its weakest population growth in decades. And although officials relaxed the nation's strict "one-chi...

Activists argue Iran is in the throes of an intensified crackdown affecting all sectors of society from trade union activists, to campaigners against the enforced wearing of the headscarf for women, to religious minorities. The repression comes one...

Traders were already skittish after a string of data showed economies beginning to take a hit from surging inflation and central bank interest rate hikes aimed at taming prices. A possible meeting between Pelosi and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen...

But the US government had not given up its pursuit of one of the planners of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the heir to Osama bin Laden. After years of tracking him down, US armed forces fired two Hellfire missiles from a drone flying above the...

The 25-year-old wrestler with the stage name "P'Suchart" was one of almost 20 individuals slapping, slamming and smacking one another at SETUP Thailand Pro Wrestling. The part-sport, part-show has been slowly gaining popularity in the country and c...

Having pledged to help especially the poor, the ultraconservative cleric now faces runaway consumer prices that have sparked protests. Raisi was elected in June last year in a ballot for which less than half of voters turned up, after his major riv...