Fresh from a humiliating climbdown on cutting income tax for the richest, Truss and Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng were set to hurriedly bring forward a major debt-reducing budget plan announcement, the Financial Times and others reporte...

The agency that manages Ecuador's prisons, SNAI, gave the death toll in a statement which also said 21 people were injured in the clashes between inmates. It had earlier announced that tactical units conducted operations to regain control of the fa...

While the Reserve Bank of Australia's 0.25 percentage point hike took the cash rate to a nine-year high of 2.60 percent, the increase was half what had been forecast as it joins others around the world in trying to rein in runaway inflation. In a s...

Paine quit as Test skipper last November on the eve of the Ashes campaign against England when lewd text messages he sent to a female colleague in 2017 were about to be made public. The bombshell announcement was followed a week later by Paine taki...

With China's neighbours now rushing to keep pace, Xi's next five-year term is likely to see a quickening Asia-Pacific arms race. From South Korea developing a blue-water navy to Australia buying nuclear-powered submarines, weapons shopping has surg...

Now, 10 years into President Xi Jinping's rule, community organisations such as Charles's have been dismantled and hopes of a rebirth crushed. Charles has fled China and several of his activist friends are in jail. "After 2015, the whole of civil ...

He has even jumped the fence of China's restrictive residency rules to move from eastern Shandong province to the capital, near the middle-class neighbourhood of Shangdi. "Things are going pretty well," the fresh-faced thirty-something says with a ...

In the past two years, the 18-member Academy has bestowed the prestigious prize on US poet Louise Gluck and Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah, two writers whose work had not been widely translated and was not known to the broad public -- or even so...

As public anger grew over the tragedy, police moved to punish those responsible for the crush in the city of Malang that witnesses say started when officers fired tear gas into packed stands to quell a pitch invasion. Arema FC fans set up a makeshi...

Governments around the world have pledged to reduce emissions of methane (CH4) -- which absorbs 80 times more solar radiation over short periods than carbon dioxide -- in their battle to curb global warming. Human-induced sources of the powerful g...

Beyond their intended use as a transport token, the tickets with their trademark magnetic strip have inspired artists, filmmakers and singers, served as emergency notepads and, most of all, bookmarks. "As the metro ticket disappears, so does a part...

Puerto Williams on Navarino island, which is separated from the South American mainland by the Beagle Channel, is the world's southern-most town. Far from the pollution that blights major urban and industrial centers, it is a paradise that provides...

That is no mean feat, given that the Ethereum blockchain was burning through about as much electricity as New Zealand. Sceptics had expected glitches with the upgrade, known as "the merge", but it ended up being a "rather boring event", according t...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is due to announce the winner at 11:45 am (0945 GMT). Last year, the academy honoured Syukuro Manabe, of Japan and the United States, and German Klaus Hasselmann for their research on climate models, while Ital...

The rally in equities was matched by more gains in sterling as traders welcomed the government's decision to scrap a planned cut in the top rate of income tax. Oil also continued to rise on expectations OPEC and other major producers will slash out...