Russian air defence systems shot down a cruise missile near the city of Kerch, Moscow-installed Crimea Governor Sergei Aksyonov wrote on the Telegram messaging app yesterday.

The “Ivory Man”, whose remains were found in an opulent tomb in Spain in 2008, is believed to have been the most powerful and influential person of his ancient society nearly 5,000 years ago.

A US drone strike has killed an Islamic State group leader in Syria after Russian warplanes harassed MQ-9 drones over the war-torn country, the US Central Command said yesterday.

At least 10 Tunisian migrants were missing and one died after their boat sank off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a judicial official said yesterday.

A regional correspondent for leading Mexican newspaper La Jornada was found slain on Saturday, shortly after he went missing in the western state of Nayarit, prosecutors said.

With the effects of climate change mounting, Amazon basin countries met in Colombia for a summit Saturday to strategize on how to save the world’s biggest rainforest.

Syria on Saturday announced it was cancelling the BBC’s accreditation over what it called “misleading reports”, a rare move against an international media outlet in the war-torn country.

North Korea yesterday slammed the UN nuclear watchdog for approving Japan’s plan to discharge treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Syria on Saturday announced it was cancelling the BBC’s accreditation over what it called “misleading reports”, a rare move against an international media outlet in the war-torn country

All six people aboard a small jet died when the aircraft crashed and burned in a field near an airport near Los Angeles on Saturday, local and federal authorities said

At least 10 people have died in the heavy rains and landslides pummeling Abidjan, Ivory Coast officials told AFP.

President Joe Biden announced Friday that the United States has fully destroyed its decades-old stockpiles of chemical weapons, a milestone hailed as completing the elimination around the world of all known stores of the agents of mass death.

The migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking saved 46 people in distress off the coast of Libya on Friday who were trying to reach Europe in a fibreglass boat, the humanitarian NGO said on Twitter.

Humanitarian organisations on Friday condemned plans by the United States to supply controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine, citing the long-lasting danger posed by the weapons which leave behind unexploded bomblets.

Robots presented at an AI forum said on Friday they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems, and would not steal humans’ jobs or rebel against us.

President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday secured Turkey’s crucial backing for Ukraine’s Nato aspirations after winning a US pledge for cluster munitions.

Two police officers and four attackers were killed yesterday when gunmen and suicide bombers stormed a police station in the mostly Sunni city of Zahedan in Iran’s restive southeast, state television reported.

Two police officers and four attackers were killed when gunmen and suicide bombers stormed a police station in Iran's restive southeast on Saturday

Like landmines, widely-banned cluster munitions often pose a deadly threat years after being deployed. Now the US will send cluster bombs to Ukraine to support the country's counter-offensive against Russia

The United Nations condemned the civilian cost inflicted by Russia's war in Ukraine as the fighting passed the 500-day mark with no end to the conflict in sight