Net income leapt 90 percent year-on-year for the world's biggest oil producer, which clocked its second straight quarterly record after announcing $39.5 billion for Q1. "While global market volatility and economic uncertainty remain, events during ...

Net income leapt 90 percent year-on-year for the world's biggest oil producer, which clocked its second straight quarterly record after announcing $39.5 billion for Q1. "While global market volatility and economic uncertainty remain, events during ...

At the same time every day, the river's almost century-old dam is opened and water rushes under the bridge, to the sound of music by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It is a popular attraction especially for Russian tourists. Even Catherine the Grea...

The Zaporizhzhia plant in southeastern Ukraine has been occupied by Russian forces since March, and Kyiv has accused Moscow of basing hundreds of soldiers and storing arms there. During his televised address on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodym...

Poland's Eighth-seeded Hurkacz needed two hours to claim a 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 victory over his Norwegian opponent, who had dropped just one set all week. But his workload was minor compared to that of unseeded Spaniard Carreno Busta, who needed three ho...

More than 10 million openings went unfilled in June, according to government data, while fewer than six million people were seeking work, even as employers desperately try to boost hiring amid a frenzy of consumer spending. "We have a lot of jobs...

A soldier racing through a frontline town in a drab pickup truck may take a direct hit only to be saved by a miracle. An elderly woman slumbering in her apartment is tossed across her bedroom -- spared from the havoc next door by a cracked partitio...

The machine was lumbering through a pasture outside the village of Maidan -- around 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the frontline with Russian forces -- when it struck a mine, according to farmer Pavlo Kudimov. One front wheel was wrenched off and th...

The former guerilla and his partner have steadily increased their grip on power since he returned to the nation's top office in 2007, particularly via constitutional reforms that removed presidential term limits. This style of government "concentra...

The reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden, Iraq's swamplands have been battered by three years of drought and low rainfall, as well as reduced water flows along rivers and tributaries originating in neighbouring Turkey and Iran. Vast expanses...

Duniu is just one of a growing number of animals being signed up for traditional medicine in China -- care their masters say is less invasive and comes with fewer side effects than conventional treatments. In one Beijing practice, pets of all shape...

That's a potential takeaway from the scandal embroiling Donald Trump over his alleged hoarding of secret government documents almost two years after losing reelection to Joe Biden. If Trump was previously considered likely to announce a 2024 comeba...

Makers of consoles, accessories, and software for gaming are experiencing the same kind of post-pandemic effect as tech titans who saw business boom while Covid-19 fears kept people close to home. The squeeze has been exacerbated by steep inflation...

But after just two games in charge, the Dutchman is getting a crash course in United's new reality. The 20-time English champions have now lost seven consecutive away league games for the first time since 1936. That run included similar thrashings...

Israel's emergency medical services, the Magen David Adom (MDA), called the incident a "terror attack in the Old City". An AFP reporter noted heightened security around the scene, not far from Jerusalem's Western Wall, Jews' holiest prayer site. P...