Risk specialists see extreme weather and misinformation as most likely to trigger a global crisis in the next couple of years, a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey released yesterday said.

A massive winter storm moving across the eastern half of the US on Tuesday knocked out power to about 811,000 homes and businesses in 12 states ahead of a brutal freeze expected to blanket the region starting this weekend.

A Taliban official has said several girls and women were detained recently in Kabul for not covering themselves properly, after reports circulated of a crackdown in Kabul.

Gunmen with explosives stormed a TV station on-air in Ecuador on Tuesday during a wave of violence around the nation that prompted President Daniel Noboa to name 22 gangs as terrorist organizations to be hunted by the military.

The global unemployment rate will increase slightly in 2024, the United Nations said yesterday as it raised concerns about stagnant productivity, worsening inequalities and inflation biting into disposable income

Bhutanese voters have elected Tshering Tobgay to become prime minister for a second time after his party won nearly two-thirds of seats, the election commission said in results released Wednesday

Ecuador's president gave orders Tuesday to "neutralize" criminal gangs after gunmen opened fire in a TV studio and bandits threatened random executions on a second day of terror in the violence-riddled country.

Boeing (BA.N) CEO Dave Calhoun acknowledged errors by the US planemaker as more than 170 jets remained grounded for a fourth day, telling staff the company would ensure an accident like the mid-air Alaska Airlines panel blowout "can never happen again.

Ecuador faced a string of violent incidents on Tuesday, including the on-air invasion of a TV station by gunmen, as President Daniel Noboa named 22 gangs as terrorist organizations and military targets

A US air strike on a rocket launcher late on Monday foiled an attack on Ain al-Asad air base, which hosts US and other international forces in western Iraq, two Iraqi army sources said.

Former prime minister Tshering Tobgay’s party won Bhutan’s election yesterday, media reported, after polls dominated by economic threats challenging the Himalayan kingdom’s longstanding policy of prioritising “Gross National Happiness” over growth.

French leader Emmanuel Macron yesterday picked Gabriel Attal as prime minister in a bid to give new momentum to his presidency, with the 34-year-old becoming France’s youngest and first openly gay head of government.

Italian prosecutors said yesterday they were investigating a junior culture minister over allegations a painting he owned and exhibited had been stolen and modified to hide its origins -- claims he denies.

Bottled water is up to a hundred times worse than previously thought when it comes to the number of tiny plastic bits it contains, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said Monday.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on his latest mission to rein in the Gaza offensive, told Israeli leaders yesterday there was still a chance of winning acceptance from their Arab neighbours, if they create a path to a viable Palestinian state.

Donald Trump warned yesterday that he could prosecute Joe Biden if he returns to the White House, as Washington appeals court judges expressed skepticism at the former US president’s claims that he is immune from criminal charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election.

Taiwan’s government issued an island-wide alert yesterday, saying a Chinese satellite had flown over its southern airspace, which Taiwan’s foreign minister described as part of a pattern of harassment days before a pivotal election.

Now that’s what you call airplane mode -- an iPhone that plummeted 16,000 feet (5,000 metres) from an Alaska Airlines flight landed without a single crack in the screen and even a battery still half-charged.

Thailand’s cabinet endorsed a bill aimed at tackling the kingdom’s poor air quality yesterday, clearing the way for parliament to start debating the draft legislation.

At least 6,618 migrants died or disappeared while trying to reach Spain by sea in 2023, when record numbers headed for the Canary Islands, a migrants rights group said yesterday.