Workers at the “Big Three” US auto manufacturers went on strike yesterday in a first-ever coordinated action to demand pay raises, testing the resilience of the US economy and threatening President Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election momentum.

The Kremlin yesterday said no agreements have been signed during North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s ongoing visit to Russia.

The AI models that power chatbots and other applications still have difficulty distinguishing between nonsense and natural language, according to a study released on Thursday.

Suspicion over the unexplained weeks-long absence of Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu deepened yesterday, as leading western newspapers reported he was subject to a probe and a top US diplomat questioned whether he was under house arrest.

President Joe Biden said yesterday that the United States would support Iranians a year after the death of Mahsa Amini sparked mass protests, and announced fresh sanctions against “egregious human rights abusers”.

Rescuers sifted through mud and rubble yesterday in their search for people missing from the tsunami-sized flash flood that swept the Libyan port city of Derna.

The main border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan reopened to pedestrians and vehicles yesterday, more than a week after it was closed following a gun battle between frontier guards.

Iran has warned the European Union that its decision to maintain sanctions on the Islamic republic beyond a deadline set in a landmark nuclear deal was “illegal”.

The Kremlin today said no agreements have been signed during North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's ongoing visit to Russia

Beijing said today it was sanctioning two US defence companies, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, over their roles in supplying arms to Taiwan

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited a Russian military aviation factory today following his summit with President Vladimir Putin, as the two countries ostracised by the West seek deeper ties

The United Nations is urgently seeking more than $71 million to assist those most in need after deadly flash floods swept Libya over the weekend.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived at a Russian industrial city to visit a military aviation factory today, Russian agencies reported, following his summit with President Vladimir Putin

US President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden was criminally charged on Thursday, after efforts to reach a plea deal failed, leading to the first ever prosecution of a sitting president's child

Artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT diagnosed patients rushed to emergency at least as well as doctors and in some cases outperformed them, Dutch researchers have found, saying AI could “revolutionise the medical field”.

Nasa yesterday said it has named a new director of research into what the government calls “unidentified anomalous phenomenon,” or UAP, while the US space agency’s chief said an expert panel that urged more fact-finding on the matter found no evidence of an extraterrestrial origin for these objects.

The first phase of Ram Temple in India’s town of Ayodhya will be completed in December and will open to devotees in January, an official said yesterday.

Dozens of Chinese warplanes and 10 navy ships were detected around Taiwan, authorities in Taipei said yesterday after warning that Beijing was conducting air and sea drills in the Western Pacific.

Whatever practical cooperation emerges from this week’s summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, their deepening relationship is aimed at sending their rivals a warning, analysts said.

The Earth’s life-support systems are facing greater risks and uncertainties than ever before, with most major safety limits already crossed as a result of planet-wide human interventions, according to a scientific study released on Wednesday.