In the six years since the Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted in 2015, Madagascar has had only one decent rainy season, leaving more than a million people severely hungry in the southeast African island nation.

An original Apple computer, hand-built by company founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak 45 years ago, sold for $400,000 at auction in the United States on Tuesday.

Twenty-one people survived being buried under heavy debris when a two-storey building collapsed in eastern Turkey, the government said, with no fatalities reported as search operations ended early yesterday.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven yesterday tendered his resignation, a widely expected move paving the way for his designated successor Magdalena Andersson ahead of next year’s general election.

Russia’s prison service yesterday said it had dismissed 18 officials after a whistleblower leaked videos of rape and torture inside its facilities.

The United Nations said yesterday that Ethiopia had detained 72 drivers working for the World Food Programme (WFP) in the country’s conflict-torn north.

The European Union’s top diplomat was set to warn the bloc yesterday that it must agree an ambitious doctrine as the basis for joint military action abroad, including with a deployable crisis force, according to excerpts of a draft seen by Reuters.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was busy telling the nation about important revisions to Covid-19 restrictions when an unexpected voice cut in: “mummy”?

Taiwan’s government agencies face around five million cyber attacks and probes a day, an official said yesterday, as a report

A US judge Tuesday ordered White House records that could implicate former President Donald Trump in the January 6 attack on

Poland yesterday said it had seen a surge in attempts to breach its border and had pushed back hundreds of migrants to Belarus, after it accused Minsk and Moscow of trying to orchestrate a crisis on Europe’s borders.

Google yesterday lost an appeal against a 2.4-billion-euro ($2.8-billion) fine imposed by the European Union for abusing its search engine dominance -- a big win for the bloc’s anti-trust tussle with the tech titan.

1918 - The First World War ended at 11 am. The armistice was signed in a railway carriage at Compiegne, France, bringing to a close a conflict in which more than 10 million people died.

The Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom Tzipi Hotovely had to flee a London School of Economics event yesterday amid a large protest led by pro-Palestinian activists.

The US congressional committee probing the deadly Jan 6 assault on the Capitol issued subpoenas seeking documents and testimony from six more associates of former President Donald Trump, including top aides from his re-election campaign.

Oral antiviral pills from Merck & Co and Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE have been shown to significantly blunt the worst outcomes of Covid-19 if taken early enough, but doctors warn vaccine hesitant people not to confuse the benefit of the treatments with prevention afforded by vaccines.

When countries first signed up to the COP negotiations process more than 30 years ago, climate change was viewed as a future problem.

A US appeals court said Facebook can pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in its WhatsApp messaging app to install malware allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents.

Holed up in her lab, Brazilian atmospheric chemist Luciana Gatti crunches her numbers again and again, thinking there is a mistake.

The United States plans to invest in five to 10 large infrastructure projects around the world in January as part of a broader Group of Seven initiative to counter China's Belt and Road Initiative, a senior U.S. official said on Monday.