Hong Kong police on Thursday banned next month's vigil marking Beijing's deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown, a government official said, the second year in a row that authorities have refused permission. The Hong Kong Alliance, which has organised t...

The world may temporarily breach the 1.5-Celsius warming mark within the next five years, according to an updated assessment of global climate trends released Thursday. The World Meterological Organization and Britain's Met Office said there was a ...

Millions of Turks have been glued to their screens, watching a crime boss tell wild stories about international drug smuggling, murders and the murky ties between politicians and the mafia. But the gang boss starring in these videos is real, and hi...

At least 60 marathons and cross-country races have been cancelled or postponed in China after 21 runners died when extreme weather hit an ultramarathon last weekend, state media said Thursday. Long-distance running in booming in China but concern i...

Teenagers suing to block expansion of an Australian coal mine scored a "landmark" victory Thursday, with a judge agreeing the project would cause them climate-related harm. A group of eight high-schoolers -- backed by an activist octogenarian nun -...

Mali's interim president and premier have been released, a military official told AFP on Thursday, three days after they were detained and stripped of their powers in what appeared to be the country's second coup in nine months. 

Armenia said Thursday that Azerbaijan has detained six members of its military, the latest border incident between the countries, which went to war last year over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. 

The moon put on a show for many parts of the world Wednesday, as the first total lunar eclipse in more than two years coincided with a supermoon. 

Privacy organisations on Thursday complained to regulators in five European countries over the practices of Clearview AI, a company that has built a powerful facial recognition database using images "scraped" from the web. Clearview's use of images...

Five million people in Melbourne were ordered into a snap week-long lockdown Thursday, with officials blaming Australia's sluggish vaccine rollout and hotel quarantine failures for yet another virus outbreak in the country's second-biggest city. Fa...

Ben Simmons silenced the critics with a 22 point, nine rebound, eight assist performance as the Philadelphia 76ers routed the Washington Wizards 120-95 to grab a 2-0 playoff series lead on Wednesday. Joel Embiid also scored 22 points and grabbed se...

Two sleek new roads vanish into mountain tunnels high above a sleepy Montenegrin village, the unlikely endpoint of a billion-dollar project bankrolled by China that is threatening to derail the tiny country's economy. The government has already bur...

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed home from Jordan Thursday after a whistlestop Middle East tour on which he called for regional cooperation to consolidate a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza militants. Blinken met both Israeli and Palest...

Outside an old blue and white school in northeastern Spain dozens of farm workers wait their turn to be vaccinated against the coronavirus by a team of nurses. Spain, a key provider of fresh fruit and vegetables to the rest of Europe, is racing to ...