Xi visited Hong Kong under strict security measures to mark the 25th anniversary of the city's handover from Britain in his first trip outside mainland China since the outbreak of the pandemic. Steven Ho, a 42-year-old member of Hong Kong's largest...

For many people, particularly from western European backgrounds, the idea of eating insects is still riddled with fear and inhibition. But they can be a valuable source of nutrition and farming them is not detrimental to the environment. South Afr...

Fossils dating back about six million years found in southwest China's Yunnan province included a greatly enlarged wrist bone called a radial sesamoid. It is the oldest known evidence of the modern giant panda's false thumb that allows it to grip a...

Heads of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are gathering to assess efforts to nail down timetables and other guarantees for restoring civilian rule in Mali, Guinea and Burkina Faso. Mali underwent coups in August 2020 and May 2...

"It's not easy doing business in Congo," he said. His family was forced to relocate the factory in the 1990s to survive bouts of mass looting. And nowadays, there are onerous taxes, customs duties, and problems retaining talented staff. His compa...

Even as the crypto sector suffers a rout with sales and values plunging and scams proliferating, celebrities continue to sign up to the craze for so-called Non-Fungible Tokens. Gone Ape The Bored Ape Yacht Club is the ground zero of NFT "collectable...

The dangerous reminders of the war raging nearby in Ukraine underscore Romania's determination to cut its reliance on Russian natural gas imports. With fears growing across the European Union that Moscow will cut gas shipments in retaliation for EU...

The 34-year-old ranked 128th in the world pulled level with Carlos Ortiz with a birdie at the 13th, then birdied the 15th, 16th and 17th to secure the win in the second event of the controversial Saudi-funded series, which has raised the hackles of ...

Of the 5,500 people living there, 1,400 -- aged from three months to 85 -- are participating this year in the once-a-decade staging of an elaborate "Passion Play" depicting the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Dating back to 1634, the tradit...

Farrell was in a defiant mood after Ireland's 42-19 loss to the ruthless All Blacks in Auckland on Saturday, three days after his second-string side succumbed 32-17 to the Maori All Blacks. He acknowledged the tourists will need to dig deep to reve...

Russia has intensified its restrictions on independent media since attacking its neighbor in February, with journalists under threat of prosecution for criticizing the invasion or for even referring to it as a war. The US government-backed Open Tec...

But at the clinic where she receives her treatment, Diaz has found a new "will to live" thanks to live tango and milonga performances. "This is more than medicine," Diaz told AFP from the Diaverum clinic in Montevideo. It is 9:00 am and Diaz is on...

Images of plastic pollution have become familiar: a turtle suffocated by a shopping bag, water bottles washed up on beaches, or the monstrous "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" of floating detritus. Millions of tonnes of plastic produced every year, lar...

For an importer, the surge in the greenback against the euro, yen or British pound is a plus, because it makes the products they buy cheaper. But for a US export company, products sold in dollars have become more expensive, which increases the risk...

Launch spots that lined the edge of the lake, located outside Las Vegas, have been abandoned, and a single ramp is now the only way to get a boat in the water. "We used to have more. So everyone's fighting to use one ramp... and still trying to fig...