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China’s Communist Party has warned about the potential risks of AI, a day after experts said it posed a similar risk as nuclear war...

NATO-led peacekeeping troops have put up metal fences and barbed wire barriers in a northern town in Kosovo after clashes with ethnic Serbs left...

A patch of phosphorescent green liquid that appeared in Venice’s Grand Canal was caused by the chemical fluorescein. Environmental officials confirmed the source of...

We are standing on the huge deck of the Geo Barents rescue ship, where hundreds of people are waiting to start a new life....

NATO-led peacekeeping troops have put up metal fences and barbed wire barriers in a northern town in Kosovo after clashes with ethnic Serbs left...

Air New Zealand is reportedly going to weigh its passengers travelling internationally in June. The information will be used to calculate average passenger weights...

We are standing on the huge deck of the Geo Barents rescue ship, where hundreds of people are waiting to start a new life....

North Korea has attempted to launch its first military spy satellite – sparking emergency alerts in neighbouring South Korea and in Japan. Air raid...

Russia’s Vladimir Putin has said Ukraine is trying to scare and provoke Moscow after it blamed it for a drone attack in the capital....

It is not the first time drones have attacked Moscow. And it may not be the most significant. The drone attack on the Kremlin...

A wild elephant that has terrorised villages and destroyed dozens of homes, shops and cars in recent months in India has killed an eleventh...

A nun whose body has barely decayed since her death has unintentionally attracted hundreds to the site of her burial in a small US...

The possibility COVID-19 could have leaked from a Chinese lab should not be ruled out, a former top Chinese government scientist has said. Professor...

A 15-year-old girl has been charged – as an adult – with murdering 19 people after she allegedly set fire to a secondary school...

At least 10 people were killed and 55 injured when a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims fell into a gorge in India. The bus skidded...

Nine people have been injured in a shooting on a boardwalk by Hollywood Beach, Florida. Several of the victims were taken to a nearby...

The sun beats down on us. I’m sweating, and there is noise from every angle. Two marine engines thrum behind me, churning the water...

Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy have joined world leaders in congratulating Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his election win. In a letter to...

The man who revels in his image as Turkey’s strongman took an early lead almost as soon as polls closed in the second round...