The United States and Japan have announced stepped-up security cooperation in the face of shared worries about China, and Washington strongly endorsed a major military buildup Tokyo announced last month.

Jeff Beck, the influential, genre-bending English guitarist who rose to fame with The Yardbirds before embarking on a solo career, has died at the age of 78, his family announced on social media on Wednesday.

Ukraine said yesterday its forces were fighting to retain control of Soledar in the eastern Donetsk region but cautioned it was coming up against “difficult” resistance from Russian troops.

The World Health Organization has issued an alert warning against the use of two Indian cough syrups blamed for the deaths of at least 20 children in Uzbekistan.

Palestinian man was shot dead in the early hours of Thursday during overnight Israeli raids in Qalandia refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.

The United States and Japan plan to boost military and security cooperation as their top national security officials held talks on Wednesday.

The cost-of-living crisis will be the biggest global risk over the next two years, a survey by the World Economic Forum warned yesterday ahead of its Davos meeting next week.

A major cyclone is set to hit the US state of California with up to seven inches (18 centimeters) of rain yesterday, the National Weather Service said,

Russian and Ukrainian forces were engaged in intense fighting yesterday over the town of Soledar in eastern Ukraine -- a stepping stone in Moscow’s push to capture the entire Donbas region -- with the Russians appearing to have the upper hand.

The UN rights chief yesterday warned that a new US border enforcement plan risks undermining the basic foundations of international human rights and refugee law.

An estimated five million children under the age of five died in 2021, the United Nations said Tuesday,

Canada has issued a travel ban on former Sri Lankan presidents -- and brothers -- Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa for human

The US Federal Aviation Authority yesterday ordered a temporary halt to all domestic flight departures, after a major system outage that disrupted air traffic across the country.

China has renewed its longstanding threat to attack Taiwan and warned that foreign politicians who interact with the self-governing island are “playing with fire”.

The world’s oceans, which have absorbed most of the excess heat caused by humanity’s carbon pollution, continued to see record-breaking temperatures last year, according to research published yesterday.

The cost-of-living crisis is the biggest global risk over the next two years, the World Economic Forum warned Wednesday in a survey preceding its annual Davos meetings of global elites.

US flights were delayed and airports told passengers to check with their airlines for updates on Wednesday as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage.

An estimated 5 million children died before their fifth birthday and another 2.1 million children and youth aged between 5-24 years lost their lives in 2021, according to the latest estimates released by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME).

Ukrainian forces are facing waves of assaults by Russian forces on the small salt-mining town of Soledar, Kyiv officials said yesterday, as Moscow strives to make its first breakthrough in the east in months.

The US Navy said yesterday it had seized more than 2,000 assault rifles smuggled on a fishing boat along a maritime route from Iran to Yemen.