The Smurfs teamed up with gaming production company Azerion to create a videogame that shows children the importance of taking care of the planet.
Turkey said Wednesday it would seek the extradition of 33 alleged Kurdish militants from Sweden and Finland under a deal to secure Ankara's support for the Nordic countries' NATO membership bids.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Hong Kong Thursday, prompting a massive security effort ahead of celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the city's handover to communist China.
Roofs coated with canopy-like solar panels and indoor spaces awash in sunlight: Google has bet big on in-person work with its sprawling new Silicon Valley offices.
The gruesome killing of a Hindu tailor has inflamed religious tensions in India and sparked a furious response on social media, including calls for reprisal attacks against the country's Muslim minority.
Cloaked in darkness and mystery, the creatures of the deep oceans exist in a world of unlikely profusion, surviving on scant food and under pressure that would crush human lungs.
For all its tough talk against Russia, the UK's government is failing to enforce its promises to clean up dirty foreign money, a hard-hitting report by MPs said Thursday.
A Mexican reporter was shot dead on Wednesday in the violence-plagued northeastern state of Tamaulipas -- the 12th journalist killed so far in a particularly bloody year for the country's press.
The ship was found split in half and lodged on a slope at the sea floor
China’s incremental relaxation of its gruelling zero-Covid policies could fuel a run-up that drives stocks into bull-market territory for the first time since early 2019. Beijing’s move to halve the quarantine period for inbound travellers may be a sign that the nation will gradually scrap the zero-Covid approach after a Communist Party leadership reshuffle due to take place in the autumn, according to Morgan Stanley. Meanwhile, DBS Group said that the relaxation reduces the risk of large-scale
Washington wants China to pressure Russia into ending the war in Ukraine, but that does not mean the US will be soft on Beijing when it comes to lifting trade sanctions or extending other economic benefits, a senior US national security official said on Tuesday. US President Joe Biden has kept in place tens of billions of US dollars’ worth of punitive trade sanctions on Chinese imports imposed by former president Donald Trump under a US-China trade war that started in 2018. Recently, however, th
Erik ten Hag's reputation may be enough to convince top players to join Manchester United, but it's still a long road back to glory, says Neil Humphreys.
Shares of the Chinese electric-car maker Nio plunged in New York, Singapore and Hong Kong trading after the short-seller Grizzly Research published a report claiming that the Shanghai-based start-up had inflated its revenue figures. Nio shares tumbled 11.4 per cent to HK$165.50 in Hong Kong on Wednesday, their biggest fall in almost two months, and sank 11.4 per cent in Singapore. The stock dropped 2.6 per cent overnight on the New York exchange. Nio used its Wuhan Weineng battery venture to “ju
India's Virat Kohli could line up beside Pakistan skipper Babar Azam in the same team next year with the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) planning to revive the Afro-Asia Cup. The 50-overs series was first played in 2005 before being discontinued after its next edition in 2007 as relations between India and Pakistan soured. Former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene led an Asia XI that also included players from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh in the last edition, beating an Africa side comprising cricketers from South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya 3-0.
In one of Saudi artist Ahmed Mater's best-known works, a silhouette of a gas pump morphs into a man holding a gun to his head –- a clear critique of oil's damaging influence.
The top Toto prize for the next draw on Thursday (30 June) has snowballed to $8 million, after it had not been won for the past three draws.
A panel of US medical experts on Tuesday called for Omicron-specific boosters this fall, as anticipation mounts that Covid vaccines will be needed on an ongoing seasonal basis, as is the case for influenza.
Hundreds of police were deployed in an Indian city on Wednesday following the murder of a Hindu tailor allegedly by two Muslim men after comments by a ruling party official about the Prophet Mohammed that have inflamed sectarian tensions.
Prime minister Fumio Kishida says government ‘will leave nothing to chance when it comes to power supply’
Texas residents gathered under a scorching sun Wednesday to mourn the 53 migrants who died this week after they were abandoned in a trailer in soaring temperatures, leaving tokens of flowers, candles and bottles of water.
For nearly 90 years, anyone in France needing to know what time it is down-to-the-second could ring up the Paris Observatory and get an automated, astronomy-based response.
