Authorities have ordered residents of eight districts in Zhengzhou, in the central province of Henan, not to leave the area for the next five days, building barriers around "high-risk" apartment buildings and setting up checkpoints to restrict trave...

Emergency workers found the body of Ashika Nur Fauziah, also known as Cika, under rubble in the worst-hit district of Cianjur town, the epicentre of the quake that triggered landslides, collapsed roofs, walls and buried victims in mounds of earth on...

He was left to raise his two young brothers -- a gruelling battle against isolation, stigma and poverty. Gamede, now aged 28, points to pictures of his parents hanging on the wall in a low-lit boxy garage he calls home. "They were both HIV positiv...

"Clear off!" they shout from the shore, impatient to get their hooks back into the depths of the strait that runs through Istanbul. "I have been here since 6 am but a trawler came and dropped its nets. That blocked us completely," grumbled Mehmet D...

The French-Lebanese architect wants to see her industry transformed by drastically reducing the use of concrete -- a major CO2 contributor -- using more local materials and reusing existing buildings and materials. "We need to change our value syst...

"Selbstbildnis gelb-rosa" (Self-Portrait Yellow-Pink), widely considered a masterpiece and in private hands since it was painted in 1943, features the artist during his Dutch exile from Nazi Germany. It was initially a gift to his wife Mathilde, kn...

"We hope you won't disappoint," read the chilling text from a shady go-between of the Pakistan chapter of the Islamists, known as Tehreek–e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). A second message pinged on-screen: "Refusal to provide financial support will make...

Five of the group were fined HK$4,000 (US$500) for the crime of failing to properly register the fund as a society, while a sixth got a smaller fine. Cardinal Joseph Zen, one of Asia's highest-ranking Catholics, is among the scores of veteran activ...

Something of a gold standard, social media ads can be fine-tuned and tailored to individual users on a mass scale, and have been particularly lucrative for Meta's Facebook and Instagram, as well as Google. "Facebook pretty much set the standard for...

Bonafini, who died Sunday at age 93, helped found the women-led movement in 1977 in defiance of the country's former military dictatorship, demanding the truth about their missing children. Some 30,000 people were abducted and presumed killed by th...

The diminutive superstar with magic in his boots insisted he was in fine shape physically ahead of what he suggested would be his final tilt at World Cup success. After winning La Liga 10 times, the Ballon d'Or seven times, the Champions League fou...

Emergency workers found the body of Ashika Nur Fauziah, also known as Cika, under rubble in the worst-hit district of Cianjur town, epicentre of the quake that triggered landslides, collapsed roofs, walls and buried victims in mounds of earth Monday...

"Thriller" has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide since its release on November 30, 1982. It consecrated Jackson as the "King of Pop" and remains a musical lodestone. Even renewed allegations of paedophilia in the 2019 documentary "Leavin...

Some say delegates at the COP27 summit missed a key opportunity to acknowledge the connection between the twin climate and nature crises, which many believe have been treated separately for too long. Failing to address both could mean not only furt...

With Wall Street closed for the Thanksgiving break, trading was light with few catalysts to drive action on trading floors and investors now looking ahead to the release of US jobs data next week. The mood across markets has picked up this month as...