Taiwan on Wednesday raised its coronavirus alert level, tightening social distancing measures as it battled a widening outbreak. The Level 3 alert was imposed on the entire island with entertainment venues, libraries, sports facilities and communit...

The young widow of an ageing Japanese real estate mogul was charged Wednesday with murdering the self-described "Don Juan" just months into their marriage, local media said. Kosuke Nozaki, who boasted in his autobiography of spending millions of do...

A steady trickle of migrants were attempting to cross by water into Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta on Wednesday, after a record 8,000 people managed to make the crossing this week. With Spain vowing to "restore order" along the border afte...

The Israeli embassy in Beijing has accused China's state broadcaster of "blatant anti-Semitism" in a report on US policy during the ongoing deadly violence in the Palestinian Territories and Israel. A presenter on CGTN, the English-language arm of ...

Australia's cricketers will play their first ever Test match against Afghanistan in Hobart later this year ahead of hosting the Ashes against England, officials announced Thursday. "We are also incredibly excited to welcome Afghanistan to our shore...

British inflation has soared to the highest level since the early stages of the pandemic, official data showed Wednesday, stoking fears of a global inflationary spike as economies reopen. The Consumer Prices Index rate hit 1.5 percent in April, att...

Most athletes and team members staying at Tokyo's Olympic village will be vaccinated by the Games, IOC chief Thomas Bach said Wednesday, as organisers try to calm fears about staging the event as coronavirus cases surge in Japan. With less than 10 ...

Two decades ago, Soumya Swaminathan watched her HIV-infected patients suffer often horrific and unnecessary deaths. There was a treatment for their disease, but they simply could not afford it. The World Health Organization's chief scientist told A...

Spencer Turnbull threw the fifth no-hitter of the Major League Baseball season on Tuesday, striking out nine batters as the Detroit Tigers shut out the Seattle Mariners 5-0. The 28-year-old Turnbull clinched the first no-hitter of his career in the...

The jihadist Islamic State group remains a "potent" force in Afghanistan and was responsible for a recent attack that killed dozens of schoolgirls, Washington's top envoy to Kabul told AFP. But Charge d'Affaires Ross Wilson chiefly blamed the Talib...

Eighty-nine people remained missing in India and hundreds of thousands were without power on Wednesday in the wake of a major cyclone, adding to the country's woes as it suffered a record number of Covid-19 deaths. Slamming the western coast late T...

In darkened tunnels once stuffed with weapons, there are now hundreds of blue barrels filled with anchovies resting in litres of brine, a surreal repurposing of Albania's Cold War past. Murals, statues, architectural oddities and historical relics ...

Researchers in Australia want to transform single-use Covid masks into road material. In the United States, the protective gear is recycled into benches. And in France, they are reborn as floor carpets for cars. Used to curb the spread of Covid-19,...

Bitcoin plunged below $40,000 for the first time in more than three months Wednesday after China said cryptocurrencies would not be allowed in transactions and warned investors against speculative trading in them. The comments sent the unit diving ...

Shivering on a cool night on the border between Belarus and Lithuania, a 19-year-old Belarusian has just fled his homeland through a forest, dodging regime border guards along the way. He is one of dozens of Belarusians to have walked across this E...