"70% of Tigray is under ENDF (Ethiopian National Defence Force)," Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's national security adviser Redwan Hussein posted on Twitter. "Aid is flowing like no other times," he said, adding that trucks of food and medicine had bee...

Output contracted 0.2 percent in the July-September period, following a modest rise in the second quarter, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a statement. The Bank of England last week said the UK economy was set to also contract in ...

The two met prior to Biden taking office in January 2021 and have spoken by phone a number of times since then, but the Covid-19 pandemic and Xi's subsequent aversion to foreign travel have prevented them from meeting in person. Foreign ministry sp...

Output shrank 0.2 percent in the July-September period, following a modest rise in the second quarter, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said in a statement. The Bank of England last week said the UK economy was set to also contract in the ...

The investment behemoth has made huge bets to find and grow new tech ventures around the world -- making its earnings vulnerable to fickle market forces, and leading to dizzying highs and lows in recent years. China's crackdown on its tech sector h...

"I have started to systematically carry out these loggings, sort of in advance," he said. Like many other Finns, Jappila fears that the EU's upcoming biodiversity strategy, which aims to protect 30 percent of the EU's land area, will make his fores...

Born and raised in the picturesque city, the Emmy nominated actor, is a well-known face here. "My wife will be happy," gleams a caretaker at the central Company's Gardens park as he takes a selfie with the star. With navy blue eyes, high cheekbo...

The World Health Organization, which says climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity, has called for the issue to be "front and centre" in negotiations at the COP27 summit being held in Egypt. But quantifying the overall imp...

The successful auction in New York, where five works fetched more than $100 million each, was a sign that the art market continues to grow despite global economic uncertainty in the wake of the Ukraine war. The record figure for an art auction had ...

Favourites England will face the hosts and holders in the final in front of a sell-out 40,000 crowd at Auckland's famed Eden Park. It will be the biggest attendance in history for a women's rugby match and is the second time that this World Cup has...

Medibank, Australia's largest private health insurer, recently confirmed that hackers had accessed the data of 9.7 million current and former customers, including medical records related to drug abuse and pregnancy terminations. Telecom company Op...

The country is the last major economy welded to a strategy of stamping out virus flare-ups as they occur, through a combination of snap lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines. Top leaders had pledged to stick "unswervingly" to the policy, ...

Conceived by technology giant Alibaba, the informal holiday's title riffs on a tongue-in-cheek celebration of singlehood inspired by the four ones -- "11/11" -- that denote its date of November 11. It has grown to encompass much of China's retail s...

In a further sign of easing, the National Health Commission said it was abolishing the requirement to identify and isolate "secondary close contacts". In a notice published on state-run CCTV, the government said the powerful seven-man Politburo Sta...

After 44 matches spanning nearly a month, the cavernous Melbourne Cricket Ground will host the deciding game to determine who joins the West Indies as the only two-time winners since the tournament's inception in 2007. Pakistan tasted victory in 20...