Journalism is being battered by propaganda and increasingly sophisticated fakes, aided by AI software and a failure of oversight from tech companies, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said yesterday.

Heavy rain that triggered flooding and landslides in western and northern Rwanda has killed at least 109 people, the state-run broadcaster said yesterday, as authorities searched for survivors trapped in their homes. Muddy water flowed swiftly down an

Bangladesh has called for an immediate permanent ceasefire in Sudan and the start of the peace process

Russia accused Ukraine today of attacking the Kremlin with drones overnight in a failed bid to kill President Vladimir Putin, according to the state-run RIA news agency..The Kremlin said it considered the attack to be a "planned terrorist action" and reserved the right to retaliate, RIA re

A 14-year-old boy shot his teacher in a Belgrade classroom this morning before opening fire on other students and security guards, killing eight pupils and a security guard, Serbia's interior ministry said..Milan Milosevic, the father of one of the pupils at the Vladislav Ribnikar elementa

Hollywood film and television writers went on strike on Tuesday, shutting down late-night TV shows, and took their demands for higher pay to the doors of major studios in a labor dispute that hinges on how the streaming boom is changing show business

Police in London on Tuesday arrested a man allegedly armed with a knife and accused of throwing suspected shotgun cartridges into the grounds of Buckingham Palace

According to Unicef estimates, 640 million girls and women today were married when they were under 18. At present, an estimated 12 million girls are becoming child brides each year

A computer scientist often dubbed “the godfather of artificial intelligence” has quit his job at Google to speak out about the dangers of the technology, US media

“There is a ray of hope at last. I can’t express my feeling, my gratitude to the Bangladesh government. We went through hell in the last 15 days. We did not even think we could return home alive.”

A US government panel renewed calls Monday to blacklist India over religious freedom, saying that treatment of minorities has continued to worsen under

A global crackdown has halted a major “dark web” marketplace, with international police arresting 288 suspects and recovering more than 50 million euros

More than 20,000 Russian troops have died and another 80,000 were wounded in five months of fighting in eastern Ukraine, particularly in Bakhmut, a White House official said Monday.

President Joe Biden told his counterpart Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday that the US commitment to the defense of its ally was “ironclad,” including in the South China Sea where Manila is under pressure from China.

The fighting in Sudan has caused more than 330,000 people to flee their homes within the country, with over 100,000 others escaping over the borders, the United Nations said yesterday.

<p>Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang will visit Myanmar and India from May 2-5, China's Foreign Ministry said today.</p><p>Qin will be in India for a meeting of foreign ministers from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation grouping, the ministry added in a brief statement.</p>

The White House on Monday announced a May 11 end to Covid-19 vaccine requirements for travellers to the United States and for government employees across the world's biggest economy

Khader Adnan, who was affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, died in an Israeli prison today after an 87-day hunger strike, Israeli prison authorities said.

The United Nations has warned of an influx of refugees fleeing to Sudan's neighboring countries

Australia today proposed to tighten e-cigarette laws, including introducing new controls on import and packaging to stamp out vaping especially among kids, in the biggest crackdown on the tobacco industry in more than a decade..The federal government will take steps to ban all disposable v