German car giant Volkswagen said Wednesday it would sell its operations in China's Xinjiang region, where Beijing has been accused of widespread human rights abuses including forced labour.

Thailand is sending almost 1,000 highly endangered lemurs and tortoises back to their home in Madagascar, in what both ...

The Football Association is investigating allegations Premier League referee David Coote discussed giving a yellow card with ...

ChatGPT creator OpenAI will allow its employees to sell shares worth roughly $1.5 billion to Japanese tech investor SoftBank, CNBC reported on Wednesday.

Indonesians voted on Wednesday to pick local leaders in the country's biggest simultaneous regional election, with President Prabowo Subianto seeking to consolidate his grip on power.

China on Wednesday described reports that its defence minister was under investigation for corruption as "chasing shadows".

Indian Olympic medal-winning wrestler Bajrang Punia, who took part in headline-grabbing protests last year, has been banned ...

Tanzanian opposition party Chadema said two of its members were killed on the eve of Wednesday's local elections, and accused the authorities of rigging the vote.

Israel's "ultimate goal" is to bring home hostages held by Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza, Defence Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday after the start of a ceasefire in Lebanon.

Ian Douglas, a London engineer and economist suffering from multiple sclerosis, secretly took his own life in February 2019, with his illness at an advanced stage.

Six people have been arrested in London for "suspected activity" linked to the proscribed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as part of a "significant" counter-terrorism policing operation, police said on ...

Amy Proffitt is like the majority of palliative care practitioners in Britain -- she is opposed to changes in the law to allow assisted dying.