"Yesterday I met the king ... and I sought his permission to dissolve the parliament. And the king agreed to my request to dissolve parliament today," Ismail Sabri Yaakob said in a televised address to the nation. "I hope the people will use their ...

A brief rally across trading floors last week gave way to gloom as investors grow increasingly worried that central bank efforts to tame runaway prices will plunge the global economy into recession. Adding to the stress is the upcoming corporate ea...

Marie-Claire Chevalier was 16 when a boy the same age attacked her and made her pregnant. Her mother, an employee of the Paris public transport authority, helped her find a backstreet abortion. But her rapist informed on her and she was ordered to ...

The 25-year-old Dutchman became the second youngest double world champion on Sunday, after Sebastian Vettel, when Ferrari's Charles Leclerc was given a time penalty relegating him to third place at Suzuka. The news emerged as Verstappen was giving ...

Agarwal has enjoyed an illustrious career since gaining her wings in 2004, including her inauguration last year, with an all-woman crew, of the longest non-stop Indian commercial flight. After helming the 17-hour San Francisco to Bangalore route, A...

The 70-year-old and his neighbours are among thousands in the country who will be rendered destitute this year as surging waters and eroding lands reshape the landscape -- a phenomenon made worse by climate change. One day in September, the waterwa...

Family and friends in the capital Riyadh told her the gruelling form of exercise –- a test of strength and coordination involving acrobatic movements on a vertical pole –- was "so wrong". Pole dancing as a form of exercise has been tainted by i...

The self-ruled democracy's 23 million people live under the constant threat of invasion by China's Communist Party, and Moscow's war in Ukraine has deepened fears that Beijing might attempt something similar with the island. In her speech, Presiden...

Victims' families and some aviation experts say the pilots were insufficiently trained to handle a loss of speed readings caused by crucial equipment freezing over in a storm. Flight AF 447 from Rio de Janeiro plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in the...

Most shallow water corals, battered and bleached white by repeated marine heatwaves, are "unlikely to last the century," the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said this year. That threatens a devastating loss for the hundreds of millions of...

"For all the devastation that we're doing to her, she's not going to sit still, our planet Mother Earth will punish us," Daley says. Daley's hometown of Churchill is an isolated settlement at the edge of the Hudson Bay where global warming unfolds ...

The prospect is no longer science fiction as global warming gathers pace, posing an unprecedented challenge to the international community, and threatening entire peoples with the loss of their land and identity. "This is the biggest tragedy that a...

An estimated 85 people were taking the overloaded boat on Friday when flooding of the Niger River caused it to tip over. "The boat reportedly carrying 85 persons capsized following rising floods in Ogbaru area of the state, with emergency services...

The Padres defeated the Mets 2-1 in their best-of-three National League wildcard playoff series to secure a spot against the Los Angeles Dodgers in a best-of-five division series that begins Tuesday in Los Angeles. "Excited. Ready to get it going,"...

Aaron Finch's men enjoy the advantage of being the only winners of cricket's shortest format to have a crack at defending the title on home territory since the T20 World Cup started in 2007. With a star-studded line-up spearheaded by David Warner, ...