The world must cease its “senseless and suicidal war against nature”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said, singling out developed nations and their gluttonous use of the planet’s resources.

EU countries and EU lawmakers are set to agree on a common charging port for mobile phones, tablets and headphones on June 7 when they meet to discuss a proposal that has been fiercely criticised by Apple, people familiar with the matter said.

Russia's Foreign Ministry said it was summoning the heads of US media outlets in Moscow to a meeting next Monday to notify them of tough measures in response to US restrictions against Russian media.

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were greeted with cheers and some jeers as they joined the royal family at a thanksgiving service on Friday for Queen Elizabeth, their first public appearance together in Britain since quitting royal duties

Turkey’s annual inflation rate jumped to a 24-year high of 73.5% in May, fueled by the war in Ukraine, rising energy prices and a tumbling lira — though the figure was slightly lower than economists had feared.

California regulators on Thursday gave a robotic taxi service the green light to begin charging passengers for driverless rides in San Francisco, a first in the state.

Amber Heard was “demonized” by ex-husband Johnny Depp’s legal team and excoriated on social media during a sensational defamation trial that ended with a jury ordering her to pay Depp $15 million, Heard’s lawyer said Thursday.

Japan recorded a record low number of births in 2021, prompting the biggest ever natural decline in the population, government data showed on Friday.

Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Thursday objected to a Democratic attempt to advance new limits on gun purchases as one Rebpublican legislator pulled out his handguns at a hearing to complain that they could be banned.

Britain celebrates the second day of Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee on Friday, with the highlight a service of thanksgiving attended by senior royals and politicians that the 96-year-old monarch herself will miss due to ongoing mobility issues.

At least two people were wounded when multiple gunshots were fired at people attending a funeral in the US state of Wisconsin on Thursday, police said.

Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to renew a two-month truce, the United Nations said yesterday, in an 11th-hour move on the day it was set to expire.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday that Russian troops control about one-fifth of his country, including the annexed Crimean peninsula and territory in the east held by Moscow-backed separatists since 2014.

The US government lifted restrictions Wednesday on air links to Cuba, one of the measures announced in May by President Joe Biden’s administration in a gesture of conciliation toward the Communist-run island.

Suspected rebels yesterday shot dead a bank manager in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said, the seventh in a spate of targeted killings in the disputed territory.

Israeli troops shot dead a teen in the West Bank yesterday, the Palestinian health ministry said, the fourth Palestinian killed in the

A gunman has killed at least four people at a hospital building in Tulsa, Oklahoma, police said -- the latest in a string of mass shootings across the United States in recent weeks.

A beaming Queen Elizabeth waved to cheering crowds massed outside Buckingham Palace yesterday as Britain kicked off four days of pomp, parties and parades to celebrate her record-breaking 70 years on the British throne.

Actor Johnny Depp won more than $10 million in damages on Wednesday, achieving a near-total victory in a defamation suit against ex-wife Amber Heard to cap a six-week trial featuring graphic testimony about the stars’ soured relationship.

Archaeologists have uncovered a roughly 1,300-year-old sculpture representing the head of a Mayan maize god in ruins in southeastern Mexico, the National Institute of Anthropology and History said.