VENICE - G20 finance ministers gathered Friday in Venice, with global tax reform at the top of the agenda as the world's biggest economies...

WASHINGTON - Sea otters are a hardy lot.The smallest of all marine mammals with the thickest fur of the animal kingdom, they can hold...

TURMUS‘AYYA (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Israel's army said Thursday it had demolished the home of a Palestinian man with US citizenship accused of fatally shooting...

BEIJING - A lone elephant who broke away from a herd marching through southern China has been captured and returned to a nature reserve,...

TOKYO - Japan's government is expected to announce Thursday a new virus state of emergency running throughout the Olympics, raising the prospect of a...

WASHINGTON - A record-breaking heat wave that hit the western United States and Canada at the end of June would have been "virtually impossible"...

The daily death toll from Covid-19 in Indonesia exceeded 1,000 for the first time, intensifying the battle to contain a resurgence of infections that...

SEOUL - North Korea is facing a food shortage of around 860,000 tonnes this year, the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation forecast, warning the...

HONG KONG: Six secondary school children were among nine Hong Kongers arrested on terror charges for allegedly trying to manufacture a powerful explosive, police...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong's leader on Tuesday brushed off a warning by major tech companies including Google, Facebook and Twitter that they may quit...