Five Arab Israelis were killed Wednesday in a shooting in northern Israel, police said, the latest fatalities in a crime wave hitting the country's Arab minority

Researchers in Japan have confirmed microplastics are present in clouds, where they are likely affecting the climate in ways that aren't yet fully understood

US astronaut Frank Rubio, who broke the record for the longest continuous space flight by an American, and two Russian cosmonauts landed in the steppe of Kazakhstan on Wednesday after more than a year on the International Space Station (ISS)

Small, artificially intelligent boxes tied to tree trunks in the Brazilian Amazon are the latest weapon in the arsenal of scientists and environmentalists battling destructive jungle invaders.

A fire ripped through a packed wedding hall in northern Iraq late on Tuesday, killing more than 100 people in a Christian town that had survived Islamic State occupation as authorities announced an investigation into the blaze.

India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Tuesday that India has told Canada it was open to looking into any “specific” or “relevant” information it provides on the killing of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar.

A bomb blast in northern Myanmar killed two people and wounded more than a dozen yesterday, a military source and a member of a local rescue organisation told AFP.

The United States said Tuesday it would halt assistance to Gabon after the military took charge last month.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) yesterday began hearing a case brought by six Portuguese youths against 32 nations for not doing enough to stop global warming, the latest bid to secure climate justice through the courts.

A New York judge found Donald Trump and his family business fraudulently inflated the value of his properties and other assets, in a major defeat for the former US president that could severely hamper his ability to do business in the state.

Ukrainian officials said yesterday said they had evacuated all children from several towns and villages near the front line in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, a focal point of Kyiv’s counteroffensive.

Bankrupt Sri Lanka's economic recovery was "not yet assured", the International Monetary Fund warned today, after the first review of its $2.9 billion bailout aimed at repairing the island nation's ruined finances

At least 113 people were killed and more than 150 injured when a fire broke out during a wedding at an event hall in the northern Iraqi town of Hamdaniyah

Court finds Trump liable for fraud in New York civil case

India yesterday told the United Nations “political convenience” cannot be the basis for a response to terrorism or extremism, and called on the global community to respect the rules-based order and the UN Charter.

Army chiefs and senior officers from 30 countries including the United States met in India yesterday to discuss threats facing the Asia-Pacific region, in the face of concern at an increasingly assertive China.

President Joe Biden yesterday joined a picket line with striking autoworkers in Michigan, backing their call for a 40 percent pay raise and telling them they deserve a “lot more” than they are getting.

Thousands more Armenian refugees fled Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday as officials in Azerbaijan’s war-scarred separatist statelet raised the death toll from a fuel blast to 20.

Myanmar’s military escalated its use of mass killings, air and artillery strikes in the past year as it struggles to crush resistance to its coup, the UN’s rights office said yesterday.

Saudi Arabia yesterday sent its first delegation in three decades to the occupied West Bank to reassure Palestinians that it will defend their cause even as it forges closer ties with Israel.