Twitter owner Elon Musk hinted late Saturday night that he may ditch the social media network’s blue cartoon bird branding -- and soon -- for an edgier logo based on an “everything app” he has long alluded to called only X.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that while Ukraine has reconquered half the territory that Russia initially seized in its invasion, Kyiv faced a “a very hard fight” to win back more.

At least 12 people were killed and up to 40 more are missing following a flash flood caused by torrential rain in central Afghanistan, a government spokesman said Sunday

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underwent surgery to implant a pacemaker on Sunday ahead of a debate in parliament on a controversial judicial overhaul bill that has brought tens of thousands of protesters to the streets.

Around 30,000 people were moved to safety on the Greek island of Rhodes where a wildfire burned on Saturday, while people in the southern United States struggled under a record-breaking heatwave

Algeria has applied to join the BRICS group and submitted a request to become a shareholder member of BRICS Bank with an amount of USD 1.5 billion, Ennahar TV quoted Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune as saying.

The death toll from a landslide in India’s western state of Maharashtra rose to 26 yesterday, a disaster relief official said, with dozens still feared trapped under layers of mud and slush two days after the incident.

At least 16 civilians have been killed by rocket fire that hit their houses in war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region, a local lawyers’ union said yesterday.

Stunning drone footage has revealed details of the Batagaika crater, a one kilometre long gash in Russia’s Far East that forms the world’s biggest permafrost crater.

President Joe Biden evoked AI’s “enormous” risk and promise Friday at a White House meeting with tech leaders who committed to guarding against everything from cyber-attacks to fraud as the sector revolutionises society.

A drone attack on an ammunition depot in Crimea prompted authorities to evacuate a five km radius and briefly suspend road traffic on the bridge linking the peninsula to Russia, the region’s Moscow-installed governor said yesterday.

Scientists have observed a white dwarf star - a hot stellar remnant that is among the densest objects in the cosmos - that they have nicknamed Janus owing to the fact it has the peculiar distinction of being composed of hydrogen on one side and helium on the other.

Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said yesterday, in what the army described as a “car ramming attempt” near Nablus.

With record-breaking heatwaves stretching across the northern hemisphere and climate-related natural disasters sweeping across the globe, scientists have warned that the world has entered “an uncharted territory” due to accelerating global warming.  

Brazil’s leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday signed a decree to limit civilian access to firearms, seeking to undo a boom of gun ownership under his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.

Malaysia's government halted a music festival in the capital Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, a day after the frontman of British pop rock band The 1975 kissed a male bandmate onstage and criticised the country's anti-LGBT laws

Tony Bennett, the last in a generation of classic American crooners whose ceaselessly cheery spirit bridged generations to make him a hitmaker across seven decades, died Friday in New York. He was 96

North Korea fired "several cruise missiles" into the Yellow Sea between China and the Korean peninsula on Saturday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said

Admiral Lisa Franchetti has 38 years of experience in the US Navy and is the current vice chief of operations. However, her nomination goes against the recommendation of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin

A government taskforce in The Gambia announced Friday that four cough syrups imported from India were responsible for the deaths of at least 70 children from kidney failure last year