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Hong Kong braces for another mass rally Sunday as public anger seethes following unprecedented clashes between protesters and police over an extradition law, despite a climbdown by the city’s embattled leader in suspending the bill. Organisers are hoping for another mammoth turnout as they vowed to keep pressure on chief executive Carrie Lam.

The new ruling would legally protect the country's LGBT community, which has among the highest rates of violent deaths in the world.

A century-old archive of IRA documents, detailing secret operations from the 1916 Easter Rising through to the Irish Civil War, has been found in an attic.

The heatwave is expected to continue well into the summer season

Communists Of Russia, a Marxist-Leninist communist party, said Thursday that it has asked Russia’s broadcasting regulator, Roskomnadzor, to block local access.

Shannti Dinnoo reports from Delhi on why India faces a big problem of open defecation?

Britain blamed Iran and its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Friday for attacking tankers.

The Scottish forestry agency announced on Thursday that the country surpassed its tree planting goals last year, making what it called a “critical contribution to the global climate emergency.”

Telegram, the encrypted messaging app, has come under sustained DDoS attack, which was traced back to IP addresses in China. It’s widely believed this is an attempt to disrupt citizen protests in Hong Kong, which are being coordinated using Telegram’s messaging group feature. The so-called #612strike protesters are against new Chinese extradition laws, saying they threaten Hong Kong’s status as an autonomous region.

An Australian company's plan to mine a fossil-rich site in New Zealand to produce pig food has been described as unjustifiable vandalism. A campaign is under way to protect the site in perpetuity.

Peter Schafer steps down after supporting petition that declares boycotts are legitimate

The new ruling would legally protect the country's LGBT community, which has among the highest rates of violent deaths in the world.

Finland will go carbon neutral by 2035, under a coalition deal published on Monday, setting one of the world’s earliest timelines for reaching that mark. After more than a month of negotiations, five parties agreed on the goal championed by incoming Social Democrat prime minister Antti Rinne.

Another scandal is engulfing the Catholic Church. At a time when the Vatican has taken its most concrete steps to address a long ordeal with sex abuse and coverups, a growing chorus of nuns is speaking out about the suffering they have endured at the hands of the priesthood, including rape, forced abortion, emotional abuse and labor exploitation. Special correspondent Christopher Livesay reports.

In the wake of a slew of fatal accidents involving elderly drivers, the government plans to create a new driver's license system that limits senior citizen

A year after a damning BBC investigation, the World Bank finds many Indian tea workers still face appalling conditions.

India plans to have its own space station, and modalities for it will be worked out after the first manned mission, Gaganyaan, scheduled for August 2022, K. Sivan, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), said on Thursday.

The Austrian Post is again creative and uses the latest technology: For the first time, it issues a special stamp

The Philippines doesn’t want to recycle your low-grade plastic scrap anymore. Neither does China. Vietnam’s not thrilled about taking it either. Earlier this week, Malaysia became the latest country to join the burgeoning trend: Governments across Southeast Asia are refusing to be dumping grounds for scrap that claims to be recyclable — but largely isn’t. Malaysia will send some 3,000 metric tons of plastic scrap back to where it came from, places like the U.S., Canada, Spain, and Saudi Arabia.

Just days after a poacher's snare had killed one of their own, two young mountain gorillas worked together Tuesday to find and destroy traps in their Rwandan forest home, according to conservationists on the scene.

New left-leaning government sets ambitious target as it plans major rise in public spending

Over the past two-and-a-half years, you’ve probably heard a lot about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election — but that is just one of several ways Russia is trying to undermine the US, CNN’s Jim Sciutto writes in his new book The Shadow War.

A citizen's forum on Saturday arranged the marriage of two frogs in Udupi in an attempt to appease the rain gods. Locals believe that this ritual called the "Mandooka Parinaya" will bring rain and they will get respite from the scorching heat.

It's getting violent.

Periodically, nature dawns completely grandeur to advise us of exactly how tiny we truly are. This power has actually lately been recorded in the Californian waters on Monterey Bay. The bay is resi…

Hong Kongers have long lived a freer lifestyle than most Chinese. That might change

Group of 20 finance ministers agreed on Saturday to compile common rules to clos...

The New York family of Everett Palmer, an Army veteran, wants answers after he died in a York, Pennsylvania, prison and his body was returned with some body parts missing.

Mohamed Noor shot Justine Damond as she approached his car to report a possible rape.

Women who flee Saudi Arabia expect to be chased. They expect their friends to be interviewed, their social media to be scoured, their passports to be frozen. They mostly do not expect Saudi government agents to hunt down the old box for their iPhone.

The head of a major medical charity says the spread of Ebola in DR Congo shows no signs of stopping.

When Murtaja Qureiris was a child, he led protests demanding rights for Saudi Arabia’s Shia minority. Now he faces the death penalty.

To conserve the environment, we should all pitch in –– and no one understands this much better than 70- year-old grandma Pat Smith who invested 2018 tidying up litter from 52 beaches in…

Heatstroke kills monkeys as India suffers in searing temperatures