Donald Trump faces a potentially damaging electoral defeat as Americans prepare to vote in midterm elections, with economic dissatisfaction, allegations of corruption and growing opposition to his foreign policy threatening Republican control
A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has used artificial intelligence to create two new antibiotics capable of killing dangerous drug-resistant bacteria, including MRSA, in laboratory and animal
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A major international survey has found that more than half of patients who underwent electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) said it was unhelpful, worsened their quality of life, and was often administered without full
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A free outdoor screening of the film Barbie in a Paris suburb was cancelled after a group of young men threatened council staff and moved to damage equipment — an incident the
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Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, Japan is beginning to acknowledge a group of victims long overlooked — the children of traumatised veterans whose post-war lives were marked
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The U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka announces the visit of the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32) to the Port of Colombo on August 16. The visit marks the
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A sweeping U.S. plan to levy steep port fees on Chinese-built and Chinese-owned ships is reshaping global shipping routes, with many carriers already pulling such vessels from American ports months before the
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The Trump administration is in talks with Intel Corp. about a potential U.S. government stake in the struggling chipmaker, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would mark another high-profile
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China is preparing a fresh push to clear its vast housing glut by mobilizing major central government-owned enterprises and bad-debt managers to purchase unsold homes from distressed developers, according to people familiar
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Farmer groups in India have called for a boycott of certain US products in response to Washington’s latest tariffs and demands that New Delhi open its agricultural market to American companies. Trade
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An estimated two million illegal firearms are circulating in South Africa, posing a major threat to public safety, opposition party Rise Mzansi has warned. The party accused the South African Police Service
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British soldiers stationed at a training base in central Kenya continue to engage in “transactional sex,” violating a 2022 ban aimed at curbing sexual exploitation and abuse, an internal investigation has revealed.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the United States is making a “genuine” and “energetic” effort to halt fighting in Ukraine and pursue agreements that take into account the interests of all
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CK Hutchison Holdings, the Hong Kong-listed conglomerate controlled by billionaire Li Ka-shing, saw its interim profits tumble 92% in the first half of 2025, weighed down by one-off costs linked to its
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North Korea has dismissed attempts by South Korea’s new government to reduce tensions along the heavily fortified border as a “pipe dream,” insisting it has not removed propaganda loudspeakers from the Demilitarized
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The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed a serious nuclear incident occurred earlier this year at HMNB Clyde, also known as the Faslane naval base in Scotland, according to The Times
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