Last year was the planet’s hottest on record by a substantial margin and likely the world’s warmest in the last 100,000 years, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said yesterday.

A woman was killed in Ukrainian shelling of Russia’s Kursk region and drones struck a fuel facility in the neighbouring region of Orlyov, the two regions’ governors said yesterday, amid an escalation of cross-border attacks.

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.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken today urged Israel's leaders to avoid civilian harm in Gaza and maintain a path towards the creation of Palestinian state, at meetings with Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet

French leader Emmanuel Macron today 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

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

A historic private mission to land on the Moon faced near-certain failure Monday after the spacecraft suffered a "critical loss" of fuel, dealing a major blow to America's hopes of placing its first robot on the lunar surface in five decades

US authorities detained a person near the White House on Monday who crashed a vehicle into an exterior gate of the presidential mansion complex, the Secret Service said

United said Monday it had "found instances that appear to relate to installation issues in the door plug -- for example, bolts that needed additional tightening."

Xi, who began his second decade as China's top leader in 2022 in a break with longstanding political norms, has waged a fierce campaign against corruption since taking power.

Some voters are expected to have trekked for days to cast their ballots in the landlocked mountain nation of about 800,000 people, similar in area to Switzerland.

President Daniel Noboa, in office since November, announced a 60-day mobilization of soldiers in Ecuador's streets and prisons as a manhunt was under way for gangster Jose Adolfo Macias, alias "Fito."

The 5,000-word guest column published in the paper's opinion pages suggests the wildly popular singer is sending veiled signals to her fans that she is queer, despite identifying publicly as straight.

At least 249 Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza in 24 hours, the enclave’s health ministry said yesterday, as WHO cancelled delivery of medical supplies to north of Gaza after failing to receive security guarantees.

Russia sent dozens of missiles across Ukraine early yesterday, killing at least four civilians and hitting residential areas and commercial sites in its latest combined air attack, Ukrainian authorities said.

At least 25 people have been killed after a tourist bus collided with a truck in Bahia state in northeastern Brazil, state firefighters said yesterday.

A bomb blast in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border killed five police officers on polio vaccination guard duty and wounded more than 20 yesterday, the latest in a series of attacks by militants ahead of the February 8 national elections.

In a fresh gunbattle, armed militants reportedly carried out an ambush against Indian security personnel of the state at Moreh, the town in Manipur’s Tengnoupal district bordering Myanmar, after sundown on Sunday.

Hundreds of patients and staff are reported to be missing from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, which is struggling to cope amid intense air strikes across the enclave.

Legend Franz Beckenbauer, who left a unique imprint on German football as player, captain and coach, has died at the age of 78, the German football association said Monday.