CANBERRA - A small group of protesters on Tuesday painted slogans in support of climate action on Australia's parliament and the prime minister's residence,...

Global warming is dangerously close to spiralling out of control, a U.N. climate panel said in a landmark report Monday, warning the world is...

SINGAPORE will recalibrate its foreign worker policies to strike a balance between accepting overseas workers and addressing the economic and social concerns of its citizens, Prime Minister (PM) Lee Hsien Loong said.

CHINA has punished a slew of officials for failing to curb a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak that’s spawned nearly 900 symptomatic infections across the country in less than a month, a resurgence that complicates Beijing’s strategy of keeping the virus out entirely.

TOKYO — Support for Japanese Prime Minister (PM) Yoshihide Suga slid below 30% for the first time since he took office, a survey showed on Monday, a sign the Tokyo Olympic Games failed to boost his ratings amid a resurgence of coronavirus infections.

CHENNAI, India — In the forests of Bastar in eastern India, indigenous women have been busy plucking the tan-colored fruits of the tamarind tree — a tangy staple of Indian cooking that earned them rare profits this year thanks to a bumper harvest.  

A senior aide to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned on Sunday in the wake of a state attorney general’s report that the governor sexually harassed 11 women.  

JERUSALEM — Most people who received a third dose of Pfizer Inc.’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine felt similar or fewer side effects than they did after receiving the second shot, according to an initial survey in Israel.  

BERLIN — Six Berlin nightclubs opened their doors this weekend to some 2,000 revelers free of masks and social distancing restrictions in a pilot project to assess whether testing for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) could prevent another lockdown for the city’s nightlife venues.  

CHICAGO — The continued spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spawned a Greek alphabet of variants — a naming system used by the World Health Organization (WHO) to track concerning new mutations of the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Some have equipped the virus with better ways of infecting humans or evading vaccine protection.  

HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s justice secretary said on Sunday that a mainland Chinese law to counter foreign sanctions could also be adopted in...

BUENOS AIRES — Tens of thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Saturday to protest over poverty and a lack of jobs amid a lengthy economic crisis that has only deepened with the coronavirus pandemic.