China on Tuesday condemned violent protests in Hong Kong as an “undisguised challenge” to the formula under which the city is ruled, hours after police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters who stormed and trashed the legislature. A representative of China’s Hong Kong affairs office denounced ...

Japan has resumed commercial whaling after 31 years, meeting a long-cherished goal of traditionalists that’s seen as a largely lost cause. Whaling boats embarked Monday on their first commercial hunts since 1988, when Japan switched to so-called research whaling, but will stay within the country’s exclusive economic waters. Japan’s six-month ...

Huge crowds marched on Sudan’s defense ministry on Sunday demanding the ruling military hand over power to civilians, and the authorities said at least seven people were killed and scores injured in protests nationwide. In the biggest demonstrations since a deadly raid by security forces on a protest camp in ...

The president stepped over the DMZ to meet his favourite dictator. He came back with a mere promise of new talks   Donald Trump had to publicly beg for a meeting with Kim Jong-un and to become the first sitting US president to go to North Korea, in order to ...

Health officials warn ‘the worst is still to come’, with temperatures expected to exceed 44C in some areas   Firefighters battled wildfires at a scale not seen for 20 years in Spain and southern France was placed on unprecedented red alert as much of western Europe sweltered in an extreme ...

Financial markets fall amid growing fears that talks in Osaka will fail to break logjam   Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have been urged to reach a trade deal or risk setting the global economy on a downward path as world leaders gathered in Japan for the G20 summit. Russian ...

“This is also a great time for India to begin attracting the large multinationals that are now looking for alternative locations. Their wages have gone up and the trade war with the US has begun to close the access of the multinationals into the US market in a big way,” ...

Study shows vaccine has greatly reduced infections among girls and young women   Elimination of cervical cancer in wealthy countries such as the UK may be possible within decades, say experts, following a major study showing the success of the HPV jab in protecting women. Human papilloma virus, which is ...

Facebook’s Libra is the last thing the world needs – big tech’s use of our data threatens to intrude even on financial transactions   Dystopian fiction – from Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange to Russell T Davies’s spectacular recent BBC1 series Years and Years – is usually intended to take ...

  Washington is preparing to impose fresh sanctions on Iran from Monday as US President Donald Trump said a day earlier he was not seeking war with Tehran after a senior Iranian military commander warned any conflict in the Gulf region could spread uncontrollably and threaten the lives of US ...