WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is due to plead guilty this week to violating U.S. espionage law, in a deal that will end his imprisonment in Britain and allow him to return home to Australia, ending a 14-year legal odyssey

Problems with Boeing's Starliner capsule, still docked at the International Space Station (ISS), have upended the original plans for its return of its two astronauts to Earth, as last-minute fixes and tests draw out a mission crucial to the future of Boeing's BA.N space division

High concentrations of tiny particles released when aviation jet fuel is burnt pose a health risk to 52 million people living around Europe's busiest airports, NGO Transport & Environment warned Tuesday

Hundreds of multinational corporations on Tuesday urged Japan to triple its capacity to generate renewable power by 2035, as the heavily coal-dependent country updates its energy policy

Assange, 52, has agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified US national defence document

A cyberattack on Indonesia’s national data centre compromised hundreds of government offices and caused long delays at the capital’s main airport, with the hacker demanding an $8 million ransom, officials said yesterday.

Democracy is not a crime and autocracy is the real “evil”, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said yesterday after China threatened to impose the death penalty in extreme cases for “diehard” Taiwan independence separatists.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday appealed to an emboldened opposition for “consensus”, as parliament opened following an election setback that forced him into a coalition government for the first time in a decade.

Teenagers across the Gaza Strip should have been taking their final exams this month, a last hurdle before university and lifelong dreams, but the Israeli offensive in the Palestinian territory has crushed those hopes.

The Kremlin yesterday directly blamed the United States for an attack on Crimea with US-supplied ATACMS missiles that killed at least four people and injured 151, and Moscow formally warned the US ambassador that retaliation would follow.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday sought Chinese support to solve the Rohingya crisis quickly.

An Israeli air strike at a medical clinic in Gaza City killed the director of Gaza’s Ambulance and Emergency Department, the enclave’s health ministry said yesterday, while Israel’s military said the strike had killed a senior Hamas armed commander.

The death toll from a series of brazen attacks on churches and synagogues in Russia’s mainly Muslim region of Dagestan rose to 20 yesterday after gunmen went on the rampage in coordinated attacks in two of the republic’s most important cities.

US prosecutors are recommending to senior Justice Department officials that criminal charges be brought against Boeing BA.N after finding the planemaker violated a settlement related to two fatal crashes, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

French far-right leader Jordan Bardella said yesterday his party was ready to govern as he pledged to curb immigration and tackle cost-of-living issues ahead of the country’s most divisive election in decades.

A first batch of 5,000 conscripts called up by Myanmar’s junta will begin duty at the end of this month, military sources told AFP yesterday, as the generals struggle to crush opposition to their coup.

Twenty-two people were killed in a massive fire at a South Korean lithium battery plant yesterday, most of them Chinese nationals, in one of the country’s worst factory disasters in years.

US prosecutors are recommending to senior Justice Department officials that criminal charges be brought against Boeing after finding the planemaker violated a settlement related to two fatal crashes, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters

Russia today summoned the US ambassador to the foreign ministry over what it said was Washington's "responsibility" for a Ukrainian strike on Crimea that killed four people, including two children

A fire broke out at a lithium battery manufacturing plant in South Korea on Monday, fire officials said, and Yonhap news agency reported that some 20 bodies had been found inside the factory