September2024

Asian markets mostly rose Friday and the yen sat around nine-month highs after another healthy day on Wall Street as investors gear up for an expected US interest rate cut next week. More data suggesting the...

Severe flooding across West and Central Africa has hit an estimated 4 million people so far this year, many of them children, displacing at least 500,000 people and destroying more than 300,000 homes. The flooding ranges...

In Beijing on Friday, Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun told an international assembly of military officials that “negotiation” was the only way to resolve disputes like the battles in Gaza and Ukraine. “Encouraging peace and negotiation...

Europe’s main stock markets rallied at the start of trading on Thursday following strong gains in Tokyo and on Wall Street thanks to big uplifts for tech shares. Investors were awaiting an expected cut in eurozone...

With inflation slowing and the economic outlook darkening, the European Central Bank is expected to cut interest rates again Thursday but is unlikely to give much away about its next moves. After raising rates at a...

After two previous sightings this year, the head of the facility announced on Friday that a fresh Javan rhino baby had been discovered in an Indonesian national park, adding to the optimism surrounding one of the...

The Adani Group of India has refuted any involvement in an investigation into securities fraud and money laundering that resulted in the freezing of over $310 million in cash that was concealed in Swiss bank accounts....

Looters are packing statuettes and pieces of old palaces onto lorries, sneaking them out of the war-torn nation, and selling them online, stealing Sudan’s valuable archeological legacy from museums. Tens of thousands of people have died...

“Shogun” is tipped to become the first ever non-English-language winner of the Emmy for best drama — the most prestigious prize at the small-screen equivalent of the Oscars — at a glitzy ceremony on Sunday. At...

For the first time, North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, was pictured viewing the country’s uranium enrichment facility on Friday, the same day he demanded the addition of more centrifuges to increase the country’s nuclear arsenal....