After an international mission to China turned up more questions than answers about the pandemic origins, the WHO is evaluating how to move forward through a diplomatic quagmire to solve the mystery. Determining how the virus that causes Covid-19 f...

German lawmakers probing the collapse of payments firm Wirecard are this week grilling top ministers and even Chancellor Angela Merkel as a parliamentary inquiry into the massive fraud reaches a dramatic climax. Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, who ha...

Climate change has caused ocean levels on Panama's Atlantic Coast to rise by almost 10 inches. It is threatening the ancestral island homelands of the Guna tribe and many are resigned to leaving for the mainland as the waters wash in.

Sinkholes wide enough to swallow a bus dot the drought-stricken breadbasket of the Turkish plains, worrying farmers as they spread and creep closer to residential homes. "The drought situation is getting worse," said farmer Tahsin Gundogdu, whose h...

Football's most powerful clubs faced mounting calls for reprisals over the European Super League fiasco on Thursday, as the rebel competition's boss insisted it was merely "on standby" despite nine teams pulling out. Super League chief Florentino P...

The head of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts knows a thing or two about the relentless intensification of climate change -- his agency just released a report showing that the pace of global warming is accelerating. But Jean-No...

Europe endured record heat and rainfall last year while temperatures in Arctic Siberia soared off the charts, the European Union's climate monitoring service reported Thursday. The continent in 2020 was nearly half a degree Celsius hotter than the ...

In the old town of Lamu, a historic Swahili trading outpost, a motorbike taxi weaves through a crush of donkeys, market hawkers and wooden handcarts. A decade ago, there were only two vehicles on the sleepy island: a motorcycle for the electricity ...

Israel's Deni Avdija is expected to be out for the remainder of the season after suffering a broken ankle in the Washington Wizards 118-114 win over the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday. Avdija, who was the ninth overall pick in the 2020 NBA entr...

Indonesia deployed warships Thursday in the hunt for a navy submarine that went missing with 53 crew aboard off the coast of Bali, as other nations sent vessels to help with the search.

A weekend summit on the Myanmar coup crisis will be a test for ASEAN's credibility and unity, a senior Thai official said Thursday, amid an escalating death toll and violence across its western border. Security forces in Myanmar have killed at leas...

China's Belt and Road Initiative deals are "used for propaganda", a top Australian official said Thursday as he defended Canberra's decision to scrap a state government's deals with Beijing. Australia on Wednesday overruled Victoria state's decisio...

India posted a global record of almost 315,000 new Covid infections on Thursday as hospitals in New Delhi sent out desperate warnings that patients could die without fresh oxygen supplies. India's long-underfunded health system is being stretched t...

As Poonam Sinha fought for her life, her distraught son found himself fending off black marketeers for coronavirus drugs after the Indian hospital treating her ran out of supplies. Dire medicine and oxygen shortages as India battles a ferocious new...

A Syrian surface-to-air missile exploded in southern Israel on Thursday, the Israeli military said, in an incident that triggered warning sirens in an area near the secretive Dimona nuclear reactor.