President Joe Biden took a face-first tumble on Thursday after tripping over an obstacle on stage at the Air Force Academy in Colorado, but he appeared unhurt -- and joked about it later..Biden, 80, who had delivered the commencement address to graduates of the military academy, had just s

SpaceX's Starlink, the satellite communications service started by billionaire Elon Musk, now has a Department of Defense contract to buy those satellite services for Ukraine, the Pentagon said on Thursday.."We continue to work with a range of global partners to ensure Ukraine has the resi

India's leading opposition figure Rahul Gandhi denounced Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stranglehold on Indian society on Thursday but expressed confidence that the opposition can beat the ruling party in 2024 elections..Gandhi, who was speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, is

Nine people have died in clashes across Senegal, the interior minister said today, after a court sentenced firebrand opposition leader Ousmane Sonko to two years in jail..A conviction for "corrupting youth" may disqualify Sonko, President Macky Sall's fiercest opponent, from contesting nex

The US Senate voted in favor of a bipartisan deal to suspend the government's $31.4 trillion (€29.4 trillion) debt ceiling on Thursday..The Senate approved the bill with a vote of 63-36 in a race against time after months of partisan disagreements between Democrats and Republicans. .

Ethnic Serbs gathered again in a flashpoint town in north Kosovo yesterday at the site of clashes earlier this week with Nato-led forces, as Washington urged both Belgrade and Pristina to diffuse tensions.

A coalition of French environmental charities yesterday accused the French state of negligence in regulating the use of pesticides, in a landmark legal case.

US senators yesterday raced to pass a bipartisan debt limit deal approved overwhelmingly by the House of Representatives, with the worst-case scenario of an economy-cratering default seemingly avoided.

A huge operation targeting human traffickers across 44 countries has netted 212 suspects and identified almost 1,500 victims, many of them children, EU policing agency Europol said yesterday.

Saudi Arabia has charged a women’s rights activist detained since November over her social media posts with launching a “propaganda campaign”,

Iran has significantly increased its stockpile of enriched uranium in recent months, continuing its nuclear escalation, a confidential report by the UN nuclear watchdog on Wednesday seen by AFP said.

Countries across Asia have been hit by another round of extreme heat that has toppled seasonal temperature records throughout the region, raising concerns about their ability to adapt to a rapidly changing climate.

Shelling and aerial bombardments killed 18 civilians at a market in the capital of Sudan where fighting showed no signs of abating yesterday after the army abandoned truce talks.

Top diplomats from BRICS countries called for a "rebalancing" of the global order during talks in South Africa today, as the bloc seeks a larger voice in the international arena

Baby boys babble more than girls, according to a scientific paper out Wednesday that upends a common belief that females hold a language advantage over males early on in life

A divided US House of Representatives passed a bill to suspend the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling on Wednesday, with majority support from both Democrats and Republicans to overcome opposition led by hardline conservatives and avoid a catastrophic default

Sudan’s army suspended talks with a rival paramilitary force yesterday over a ceasefire and aid access, raising fears the six-week-old conflict will push Africa’s third largest nation deeper into a humanitarian crisis.

Five fighters from a pro-Syrian Palestinian militant group were killed in an accidental explosion at a base in eastern Lebanon, a Lebanese security source said yesterday.

Russia said Ukrainian artillery hit a Russian town for a third time this week and drones struck two oil refineries in an uptick in attacks on Russian territory as Ukraine prepares a Western-backed push to end Russia’s invasion.

A UN court sentenced two of late Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic’s spy chiefs to 15 years in jail on appeal yesterday in the last major Hague war crimes trial from the 1990s Bosnian conflict.