A Norway court on Tuesday rejected a request for parole from neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik 10 years after he was convicted of killing 77 people in the country’s deadliest peacetime attack.

Ankara yesterday accused Greece of allowing 12 migrants to die in the winter cold after stripping them of their clothes and then pushing them back across the Turkish border.

The United States will send a warship and fighter jets to help defend the United Arab Emirates, officials said on Wednesday, after a series of

The European Commission yesterday defied protests from green campaigners and dissent in its own ranks to give a sustainable finance label to investments in both gas and nuclear power.

At least 40 people were killed when machete-wielding militiamen attacked a site for displaced people in strife-torn eastern DR Congo, a monitoring group and local sources said yesterday.

US President Joe Biden has approved sending additional forces to eastern Europe, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday, as Washington reinforces its allies against what it describes as a Russian threat to invade Ukraine.

At least 60 people were killed in a militia attack on Wednesday morning at a displaced persons' camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the head of a local humanitarian group and a witness said.

The owners of a New Mexico home were doubly surprised over the weekend to find a burglar in their house with an AR-15 gun, and then to have him apologize, give them money and leave embarrassed.

Many of the names believed to have been put forth this year have been in the running for several years, including Pope Francis, Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, and David Attenborough, who has been nominated together with UN biodiversity experts. Being nominated for a prize is however in no way a sign of approval by the Nobel committee.

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the US and its western allies on Tuesday of ignoring Russia’s security concerns and deliberately creating a scenario designed to lure Russia into war.

Increased instability in Myanmar since a military coup a year ago has seen a surge in narcotics production there and trafficking into Southeast

Russia’s embassy in Washington yesterday said that Moscow will not back down in the face of US sanctions threats over Ukraine, ahead of a phone call between the top US and Russian diplomats.

Amnesty International yesterday accused Israel of subjecting Palestinians to a system of apartheid founded on policies of “segregation, dispossession and exclusion” that it said amounted to crimes against humanity.

A single flash of lightning in the United States nearly two years ago cut across the sky for nearly 770 kilometres, setting a new world record, the United Nations said yesterday.

The heaviest flooding to hit Ecuador in two decades has killed at least 18 people in Quito, washing away cars, damaging homes and sweeping away volleyball players and spectators on a sports field, officials said yesterday.

A pregnant New Zealand journalist who claimed to have nowhere to go but Afghanistan will be allowed to return home, after officials granted her

Researchers estimate there are significantly more species of trees on Earth than currently known, with more than 9,200 species yet to be

Discarded syringes, used test kits and old vaccine bottles from the Covid-19 pandemic have piled up to create tens of thousands of tonnes of

Iran has executed two gay men who were convicted on charges of sodomy and spent six years on death row, a rights group reported.

The World Health Organization says overuse of gloves, “moon suits” and the use of billions of masks and vaccination syringes to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus have spurred a huge glut of health care waste worldwide.