A man was arrested in Paris yesterday after jumping off the Eiffel Tower with a parachute, police and the monument’s operator said

The Ukrainian military yesterday claimed more success in its counter-offensive against Russian forces on the southeastern front, a day after announcing the liberation of a village that had served as a Russian strongpoint.

More than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying mostly Senegalese migrants capsized off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean.

India today took an important step to try and become the first country to land a spacecraft on the moon’s south pole when the lander module of its third unmanned lunar mission successfully separated from the propulsion module in its final lunar journey

Ten people were charged yesterday after police conducted simultaneous raids across Singapore as part of an investigation into money laundering and forgery offences

The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday said there was a complete ban on activities of political parties in Afghanistan

South Korea's Ministry of Education on Wednesday unveiled a five-year plan aimed at attracting 300,000 international students to tackle the nation's rapidly declining school-age population and to strengthen the competitiveness of local universities already reeling from enrollment shortages

More than 60 people are believed to have died after a migrant boat from Senegal was found off West Africa's Cape Verde islands, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Wednesday

The World Health Organization holds its first summit on traditional medicine on Thursday, with warnings that treatments rooted in natural products can be effective alternative healthcare only if scientifically proven

Kyiv said yesterday that a civilian cargo vessel had exited its southern port of Odesa despite warnings from Russia that its navy could target any ships using Ukraine’s Black Sea export hubs.

A Swedish-led excavation on Cyprus has unearthed a wealth of artefacts suggesting an ancient port city in Larnaca on the south coast was the region’s key Bronze Age trading post, an official said yesterday.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has decreed a 100-percent pay rise for civil servants and pensioners while fuel subsidies were lifted in a country ravaged by 12 years of war.

World Trade Organization experts ruled yesterday that tariffs imposed by China on billions worth of US imports in retaliation for Washington’s steel and aluminium tariffs violated international trade rules.

Tripoli’s worst armed clashes in a year have killed 55 people and wounded 146, Libyan media reported yesterday, as a truce took hold.

The United States yesterday imposed sanctions on three entities it accused of being tied to arms deals between North Korea and Russia as Washington cracked down on those seeking to support Russia’s war in Ukraine.

In one of the biggest anti-money laundering operations, the Singapore Police Force rounded up a group of foreigners who had amassed about S$1 billion worth of assets there.

India's third unmanned mission to the moon Chandrayaan-3 today successfully underwent a final lunar orbit-bound orbit maneouvre, bringing it much nearer to the lunar surface, the national space agency said

Gun battles between two leading armed groups in the Libyan capital Tripoli have killed 27 people and wounded 106, a toll update from the Emergency Medicine Centre said Wednesday

Asian markets were well in the red, with Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul and Sydney all down more than 1.0 percent. Shanghai, Taipei, Singapore, Bangkok and Jakarta also retreated

Donald Trump is likely to claim that his right to free speech and genuine concerns about voter fraud protect him from charges that he pressured Georgia officials to change the results of the 2020 election in his favor