US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that the United States will "not allow" China to isolate Taiwan, after her visit to the self-ruled island infuriated Beijing.

Three ships carrying a total of 58,041 tonnes of corn have been authorised to leave Ukrainian ports on Friday as part of a deal to unblock grain exports, as a Russian offensive forced Ukraine to cede territory in the east.

Parts of Australia’s beleaguered Great Barrier Reef now have the highest levels of coral cover seen in decades, a government report said yesterday, suggesting the aquatic wonder could survive given the chance.

Australia enshrined deeper cuts to carbon emissions in new legislation yesterday, aiming to shed its decade-long reputation as a fossil-fuel-addicted climate laggard.

The war in Ukraine is the most dangerous moment for Europe since World War Two, and Russia must not be allowed to win, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday, as Kyiv had been forced to cede some territory in the east in the face of a Russian offensive.

Negotiators kicked off a fresh round of talks over Iran’s nuclear programme in Vienna yesterday, seeking to salvage the agreement on Tehran’s atomic

The Kremlin yesterday called for restraint from both sides after Azerbaijan said its forces had crushed an Armenian attack near the disputed enclave of

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her South Korean counterpart yesterday vowed to support deterrence against North Korea and achieve its denuclearisation.

A Russian court sentenced U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner to nine years in prison on Thursday after finding her guilty of deliberately bringing cannabis-infused vape cartridges into Russia, a ruling that U.S. President Joe Biden called "unacceptable."

US Senators delivered near-unanimous bipartisan approval to NATO membership for Finland and Sweden Wednesday, calling expansion of the Western defensive bloc a “slam-dunk” for US national security and a day of reckoning for Russian President Vladimir Putin over his invasion of Ukraine.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met top South Korean political leaders on Thursday, a day after she concluded her high-profile visit to Taiwan by renewing Washington’s “ironclad” commitment to defending democracy on the self-governing island despite vehement protests from China.

Suspected drones flew over outlying Taiwanese islands and hackers attacked its defence ministry website, authorities in Taipei said on Thursday, a day after a visit by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi that outraged China.

Two-thirds of Australia's Great Barrier Reef showed the largest amount of coral cover in 36 years, but the reef remains vulnerable to increasingly frequent mass bleaching, an official long term monitoring programme reported on Thursday.

The James Webb Space Telescope has peered through time and huge amounts of dust to capture a new image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing the spinning ring of colour in unprecedented clarity, Nasa and the European Space Agency said Tuesday.

The first shipment of grain from Ukraine since the Kremlin’s invasion five months ago passed inspection and sailed through Istanbul yesterday under a landmark deal designed to help alleviate a global food crisis sparked by the war.

An Iranian whistleblower who published damaging revelations about the family of the speaker of parliament in April has been sentenced to two years’ jail for publishing false information, Iranian media reported yesterday.

The UK parliament yesterday closed its TikTok account after MPs expressed concern over the social media app’s ownership by Chinese parent firm ByteDance.

President Joe Biden has continued to test positive for Covid-19, his White House doctor said Tuesday, and is experiencing a return of at least one symptom, described as a “loose cough.” After previously suggesting that Biden was symptom free since coming down with a “rebound” case of Covid,

Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) yesterday expressed concern over rising tensions concerning Taiwan, an official from chair country Cambodia said.

When US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi touched down in Taiwan on Tuesday night, China was ready with its response.