The United States sees no need to negotiate an international agreement on taxing the super-wealthy, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday, highlighting divisions on a plan that is top of the agenda at a G20 finance ministers' meeting in Rio de Janeiro.
Jul 26, 2024
Far north of iconic wine regions like Bordeaux and Tuscany, Sweden is seeing a burgeoning industry of vineyards and a first generation of winemakers trying to carve out a niche.
Jul 25, 2024
The sporting programme at the Paris Olympics endured a chaotic start on Wednesday as men's football kicked off and a huge police operation was put in place for Israel's first appearance at the Games.
Jul 25, 2024
At the end of a narrow suburban street north of Paris, a giant structure shrouded in a skin of mesh and steel looks like a football stadium, but is in fact a vast data centre.
Jul 24, 2024
The Shushica River's sparkling emerald waters wind a spectacular course through southern Albania that activists say is now at risk from a project that would divert a portion of its flow.
Jul 22, 2024
Freezing from horseback riding in the winter and helping her herder parents tend to livestock during summers spent outdoors -- Bat-Erdene Khulan vividly remembers her childhood on Mongolia's steppe.
Jul 22, 2024
World leaders lined up to pay tribute to Joe Biden after he announced Sunday he was dropping out of the US presidential race.
Jul 22, 2024
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has been re-elected with an emphatic 99.18 percent of the vote, according to full provisional results published Thursday, but rights activists say the outcome is a stark reminder of the lack of democracy in the country.
Jul 19, 2024
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday made her final pitch to win EU lawmakers' backing for a second term, vowing to bolster Europe's defence and strengthening its industry through greater investment.
Jul 18, 2024
Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? He pointed to the role of the predator in ancient legends including a she-wolf who saved the twin founders of Rome; Fenrir, the monstrous wolf of Scandinavian mythology and the blue wolf, the mythical progenitor of the Mongols.
Jul 18, 2024
Dust covers everything in Lim Tong Eng's yard, thrown up by excavators toiling next door to enlarge a channel that Cambodia's government hopes will soon be a major shipping canal.
Jul 18, 2024
In a warehouse in the lush humid farmlands of central Thailand, thousands of pythons lie coiled in containers, rearing and striking at the glass as people pass by.
Jul 17, 2024
As Republicans approved their policy platform at the party's national convention, a more radical shadow manifesto led by figures close to Donald Trump has raised fears for the future of American democracy.
Jul 17, 2024
The European Parliament voted overwhelmingly Tuesday for Maltese conservative Roberta Metsola to remain its speaker, in the first crunch vote on the EU's top jobs after elections in June.
Jul 17, 2024
Rwandan President Paul Kagame was gearing up Tuesday for a fourth term in office after winning a thundering 99.15 percent of the vote in an election where only two challengers were allowed to run against him.
Jul 16, 2024
Deforestation at one of Indonesia's largest nickel processing hubs is threatening an Indigenous group that is among the country's last uncontacted tribes, rights groups allege.
Jul 16, 2024
A new crop of EU lawmakers will join more familiar faces in the European Parliament this week, including influencers, activists and even a former jockey.
Jul 16, 2024
Going for a dip in the Seine on a hot summer's day has been the pipedream of many a Parisian since swimming in the river was formally banned a century ago.
Jul 11, 2024
Hollywood stars aren't the only celebrities who live in the hills around Los Angeles -- Southern California's mountain lions also make their homes there and are sometimes almost as famous.
Jul 08, 2024
Hurricane Beryl slammed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula Friday near the resort town of Tulum, with fierce winds causing material damage but no immediate injuries.
Jul 06, 2024
When Google announced this week that its climate emissions had risen by 48 percent since 2019, it pointed the finger at artificial intelligence.
Jul 06, 2024
UK Labour leader Keir Starmer is an ex-human rights lawyer and public prosecutor who will have to focus his relentless work ethic and methodical mind to fixing the country.
Jul 05, 2024
Labour leader Keir Starmer is a former human rights lawyer turned-state prosecutor whose ruthless ambition and formidable work ethic look set to propel him to Britain's highest political office.
Jul 03, 2024
On a densely populated island off Pakistan's megacity of Karachi, a group of pregnant women wait in a punishing heatwave for the only midwife to arrive from the mainland.
Jul 02, 2024
The new genome mapping has revealed how the elusive nocturnal omnivores grow and evolve, which will help conservationists save the species.
Vidhya CK
Jul 02, 2024
EU leaders struck a summit deal Thursday to return Ursula von der Leyen as head of the powerful European Commission, while tapping Estonia's prime minister Kaja Kallas as the bloc's top diplomat.
Jun 28, 2024
Ursula von der Leyen has navigated back-to-back crises from Covid to the Ukraine war as head of the European Commission, and stands on the verge of a no-less tumultuous second term, provided she can lock in support from EU lawmakers.
Jun 28, 2024
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Thursday urged investors to get behind cutting-edge climate technologies he says would drive a "green industrial revolution" and a next wave of global prosperity.
Jun 28, 2024
On Everest's sacred slopes, climate change is thinning snow and ice, increasingly exposing the bodies of hundreds of mountaineers who died chasing their dream to summit the world's highest mountain.
Jun 27, 2024
Ahead of their first presidential debate, Joe Biden and Donald Trump are offering sharply different visions of the US role in the world, both in style and substance.
Jun 26, 2024
