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Defence report calls on Japanese government to pay attention to US-China tensions over Taiwan with 'a sense of crisis'.

Death sentences in the small Gulf nation have risen more than 600 percent in the past decade, new report finds.

Investors can get some clues here on where Bitcoin, which has been stuck between $30,000-$40,000 for weeks, is headed.

US regulators issue new warning over rare neurological reaction for those getting one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Top doctors' body warns crowded tourist destinations and pilgrimages could become 'super spreaders' for a third wave.

Fire likely caused by an oxygen tank explosion at a hospital's COVID ward in Nasiriya kills at least 52 people.

Freddy Guevara's arrest came as unidentified armed men threatened opposition leader Juan Guaido in his carpark.

Widespread social unrest that followed the imprisonment of a former president is damaging businesses, key trade routes.

US aviation body says a new manufacturing quality issue needs fixing but poses no immediate threat to flight safety.

Teams combing through debris after budget hotel in the eastern city of Suzhou collapsed on Monday afternoon.

After student-run accounts erased, China's marginalised LGBTQ community fears worse to come.

Government to study troubled legacy of forced assimilation policies.

Charges against deposed Myanmar leader included corruption and that two were also levelled at a former minister.

Music industry says government must support music as it does sport amid draconian curbs on live music, dancing.

Protesters across Cuba shouted 'freedom' and 'we are not afraid' at rare protests on Sunday. Here's why.

Company filed to sell as much as $500m in shares after founder Richard Branson's successful flight to space on Sunday.

Civil society activists say holding vote amid deep political instability is not the way out of Haiti's current crisis.

The US FDA is expected to issue a new warning linking J&J's COVID-19 vaccine to Guillain-Barre syndrome.

Blaze at Nasiriya hospital's coronavirus ward is second to hit a COVID unit at an Iraqi hospital in three months.

Rights groups say Khalida Jarrar should be allowed to attend the funeral of her daughter Suha, 31.

As the party tries to stall a restrictive GOP voting bill, President Biden is set to address voting rights Tuesday.

TPLF on Monday said Tigrayan forces controlled Korem, a town 170 kilometres (105 miles) south of the capital Mekelle.

English arrogance combined with colonial history and denial are feeding schadenfreude across the world.

Hamdam app allows users to 'search for and choose their spouse'.

Shooting sprees in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia kill dozens during the weekend as US gun violence epidemic rages.

More than three-quarters of a billion people went hungry last year.

Photographs of more than 80 Muslim women put up for sale on an app are triggering outrage and calls for action.

Firefighters working in searing heat are struggling to contain the largest wildfire in California so far this year.

WHO chief says some countries are ordering millions of booster doses before others have vaccinated health workers.

US imposes restrictions on 100 Nicaraguan officials it says are involved in government crackdown and rights abuses.

Kenneth Mackenzie will assume authority from four-star General Scott Miller as US ends its 20-year war in Afghanistan.

As the virus evolves and new variants emerge, will the world need booster vaccines to get ahead of COVID?

TikTok owner ByteDance met with China officials earlier this year over data security, sources tell Bloomberg News.

The number of undernourished people rose to about 768 million, according to a multi-agency UN report.

With the failure of the law’s renewal, more Palestinians will begin the arduous process to obtain residency rights.

Musk to defend Tesla's 2016 acquisition of SolarCity against a shareholder lawsuit alleging conflicts of interest.

Two major research projects are under way to see if the US central bank should begin minting digital money.

Court reinstates Nepal's lower house and orders Sher Bahadur Deuba to be appointed as new prime minister.

Deployment of troops comes after six people killed in days of protests in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.

Restrictions in the nation’s biggest city fails to stop rising coronavirus cases.

US chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci has said it is too soon for the government to recommend a third booster shot.

Authorities said they detained a Haitian man, living in the US state of Florida, on Sunday.

A chill has settled over global finance since China announced closer scrutiny of offshore listings, crackdown of Didi.

This year’s Muslim pilgrimage is limited to 60,000 vaccinated citizens and residents of Saudi Arabia.

Thousands marched in Havana in one of Cuba's biggest ever anti-government demonstrations.

The group's leader, Mohamed Badie, was among those convicted on charges related to Egypt's 2011 uprising.

US move comes on anniversary of a tribunal ruling that says Beijing has no claims over the South China Sea.

My daughter's absence was like a wound, raw and weeping. Everything we did together reminded us of who we had lost.

Court sentences Bassem Awadallah, Sharif Hassan bin Zaid to 15 years in jail on charges of destabilising the monarchy.

Activists Sera Farista and Keitumetse Fatimata Moutloatse on their fight for climate justice and human rights.