After years of resistance, Kazakhstan has adopted Borat's signature phrase, "very nice."

The associated debt from North American oil and gas bankruptcies in 2020 has already reached an all-time high and is set to grow even further this year as the wave of Chapter 11 filings continues, a Rystad Energy report projects, analyzing industry data from law firm Haynes and Boone.

Marise Payne is demanding answers after female travellers on an Australia-bound Qatar Airways flight were subjected to invasive physical examinations at Doha Airport.

Sixty-nine nations, however, have not signed it, including all of the nuclear powers such as the US, UK, Russia, China, France, India, Pakistan and North Korea, as well as NATO member states (apart from the Netherlands who voted against), Japan and Australia.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the poorest of them all? When Bangladesh emerged as an independent country in 1971, it was arguably the poorest country in the world—or close to it. Today, the country is still poor but growing rapidly. Real economic growth exceeded 8 percent in 2019, and although the coronavirus crisis has slowed the pace, growth is expected to continue at a more modest pace of around 4 percent in both 2020 and 2021.

With a 50th nation ratifying it, the treaty outlawing nuclear weapons for all countries will come into force in 90 days

Included in the repatriation is a 4,000-year-old Sumerian relic discovered in an online auction.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Lee Kun-hee, who built Samsung Electronics into a global powerhouse in smartphones, semiconductors and televisions, died on Sunday after spending more than six years in hospital following a heart attack, the company said.

Just days after a snare had killed one of their own, four-year-old wild gorillas worked together to find and destroy other traps in their forest home.

Projection of controversial cartoons took place during national day of mourning for murdered teacher Samuel Paty

The two agents, one of whom is believed to be a top-ranking CIA official, felt sick and dizzy after the suspected attack that an expert says would signal "Cold War-style conflict" reaching new highs.

Despite claiming that it has ‘zero cases of COVID-19,’ North Korea demanded its people stay inside for fear that yellow dust traveling through the air from China could carry the “malignant virus” into the country.

Patreon is the latest tech company to take action on the QAnon conspiracy theory, announcing in a blog post Thursday morning that creators promoting the movement would be banned from the platform. Patreon, a membership platform that lets fans support creators and celebrities financially through subscriptions, previously hosted 14 QAnon influencers on the platform, according to a recent report from the progressive media watchdog Media Matters for America (MMFA).

China has pledged to become carbon-neutral by 2060, responding to the need to drastically bring down its overwhelming share of global carbon emissions. Experts say it's also critical for the communist party's survival.

It has been almost 10 months since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Wuhan, China. Since then, countries around the world have been working tirelessly to try and contain the virus that has killed over one million people and infected over 40 million worldwide to date, according the Johns Hopkins University.

Mr. Lee was convicted — and pardoned — twice for white-collar crimes, in a sign of the ills in South Korea’s relationship with its business dynasties.

Pope Francis has been warned of potential exposure to COVID-19 after a Vatican diplomat was infected, Australian media reported on Friday. Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana, the Holy See’s ambassador to Australia, had a face-to-face meeting with Francis at the Vatican on Oct. 6, less than two weeks before testing positive to COVID-19 in Australia, Nine News reported. Australian authorities say a diplomat who flew into Sydney on Oct. 9 had tested positive to the coronavirus. They won’t reveal the diplomat’s identity. The diplomat tested positive 10 days after he started quarantining at home in the national...

The United Nations granted Doctors Without Borders a sanctions exemption to send COVID-19 and tuberculosis medical aid to North Korea, the U.N. website showed on Tuesday. According to an Oct. 14 letter by the U.N Security Council 1718 Sanctions Committee, Doctors Without Borders — also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) — made a Sept. 22 request for a sanctions exemption that would allow the group to...

Poland has some of Europe's strictest laws, but the constitutional court tightens them still further.

Campaigners say sale of drugs should be nationalised to undermine organised crime