The United Arab Emirates opened an embassy in Israel Wednesday, housed in Tel Aviv's new stock exchange building, in the latest normalisation move under a deal brokered by Washington last year. The venue in the heart of Israel's financial district...

The Taliban said Wednesday they had captured the strategic border crossing of Spin Boldak along the frontier with Pakistan, continuing sweeping gains made since foreign forces stepped up their withdrawal from Afghanistan. The interior ministry insi...

Three weeks after Britney Spears sensationally called for an end to her "abusive" guardianship, the pop singer's legal battle returns to court Wednesday in Los Angeles. Spears gave explosive testimony on June 23 in which she pleaded with a Californ...

"Wesh, "wesh", "wads", "ska", "fol"... the hunt was on for that elusive word in French that would ratchet up the bonus points and unlock the top prize. Dozens of Scrabble players jousted in leafy schoolgrounds late last month in Senegal's capital, ...

An ocean liner on a "cruise to nowhere" was forced to make an earlier-than-scheduled return to Singapore Wednesday after a coronavirus case was detected on board, reports said. The cruises -- starting and ending in Singapore, with no stops -- were ...

Wearing a face mask and social distancing were a part of Magdalena Moskal's life long before the coronavirus pandemic hit. The 36-year-old Madrid resident had a double lung transplant in 2008 to tackle her cystic fibrosis, a genetic disorder in whi...

Wildlife rescuers in New Zealand were scrambling to keep a stranded baby orca alive Wednesday, as volunteers scoured waters off Wellington to find the calf's mother. The killer whale, a male aged four to six months, washed ashore on rocks just nort...

Vladimir Guerrero Jr crushed a monster home run and Japanese star Shohei Ohtani pitched a scoreless inning to help extend the American League's All-Star Game winning streak with a 5-2 win over the National League in Denver on Tuesday. Los Angeles A...

Asian markets were mostly lower on Wednesday as a surprise surge in US inflation raised investor concerns over the direction of Federal Reserve policy. They took their cue from Wall Street, where stocks retreated from records after data showed the ...

Have a beef with beef? A burgeoning veggie burger industry is using artificial intelligence to propose alternatives. Swiss group Firmenich, one of the world's leading flavour manufacturers, says recreating the sensation of beef relies not only on f...

Nine more people have been confirmed dead in the collapse of a budget hotel in eastern China, bringing the final toll to 17, as state media on Wednesday announced the end of search and recovery efforts. Six others were earlier rescued from the rubb...

The EU unveils a plan Wednesday to meet its bold green pledge of carbon neutrality by 2050, at the risk of triggering an epic political clash over electric cars and fuel prices. The dozen draft legal texts are intended to transform the European eco...

Asian champions Qatar were held to a 3-3 draw by Panama in their opening CONCACAF Gold Cup Group D game on Tuesday. Qatar, playing in the championship for teams from North America, Central America and the Caribbean as part of their preparations for...

Top US Senate Democrats agreed late Tuesday on a $3.5 trillion package to implement President Joe Biden's vast plans to fund climate initiatives, health insurance and human infrastructure programs like child care, social welfare and housing. The hu...

Married to a much older man in Afghanistan, Wati -- who thinks she is around 30 years old -- is pregnant for a fifth time in four years, including two miscarriages. She has travelled by car to a government-run maternity clinic in a poor and rural v...