The launch comes as the United States counted votes in the midterm elections for the House and Senate, which Seoul's spy agency had previously warned would be a possible moment for Kim Jong Un to conduct a long-expected nuclear test. Seoul's milita...

The world's second-largest economy reported its first decline in exports since the early days of the pandemic last month, while factory activity and gate prices also fell. The ultra-wealthy have seen their fortunes shrink, too, with the Hurun China...

The company now expects an annual net profit of 155 billion yen ($1.06 billion), up 5.0 billion yen from an earlier target for the year to March 2023. It also hiked annual sales figures, but said it now expects to sell 3.7 million units in the busi...

The comb was found at the Tel Lachish site in 2017, but the letters were not noticed until earlier this year following further examination, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said in a statement. The artefact provides "direct evidence" of the use o...

Shares in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai edged up at the open as votes were counted in crucial US midterm elections that will shape the political fortunes of President Joe Biden. But they soon fell after official data from China showed the world's s...

Carly Morris was taken into custody on Monday and the whereabouts of the daughter, eight-year-old Tala, is unknown, said the Washington-based Freedom Initiative, which describes itself as advocating on behalf of people wrongfully detained in the Mid...

The strike, which began on Saturday, exacerbated the woes facing the troubled national carrier, which has vowed to "do everything possible to return to normalcy in the shortest time". Hours after a Nairobi court ordered the pilots to return to work...

Tedros, 57, hails from Tigray, the besieged northern region of Ethiopia gripped by fighting and misery for two years. Last week's ceasefire deal between Ethiopia's government and Tigrayan rebels raised hopes that the brutal conflict in Africa's sec...

The signal -- meaning "fire!" in Ukrainian -- sends a huge orange fireball spitting from a 130mm field gun and blows away the surrounding vegetation. In highly choreographed movements, five soldiers quickly remove the smoking hot empty cartridge an...

Griner, convicted for possession of a small quantity of cannabis oil, was transferred out of a detention center on November 4, her legal team said. She "is now on her way to a penal colony," lawyers Maria Blagovolina and Alexander Boykov said in a ...

"Normally, all the machines are running. Now all is dead silent," said the owner of the plant that makes bricks and concrete products about a half an hour's drive from the capital Chisinau. The 60-year-old decided to halt production early last mon...

It was the second conviction for Peter Gerard Scully, who is already serving a life sentence for an initial batch of charges involving the rape and trafficking of girls. The Philippines has become a global hotspot for child sex exploitation, helped...

With nearly 6,000 staff, SriLankan Airlines is the biggest and most expensive of the cash-haemorrhaging, sclerotic companies that have drained the budget and compounded the worst financial crisis in national history. According to treasury figures, ...

The world's two top-ranked teams will clash at the Adelaide Oval for a place in Sunday's final at the MCG against Pakistan or New Zealand. England are sweating on the availability of batsman Malan and pace spearhead Wood. "We will see how they pul...

But the name -- and others like it that some climbers see as racist or sexist dog whistles -- is raising hackles in Austria and elsewhere. "The usage of these names leads to a normalisation of right-wing extremist propaganda that is simply spread,"...