President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. wished the Philippine national women's football team the best as it made a historic debut in the FIFA World Cup. (Photo from AFP) As the national team—Filipinas—kicked off their first-ever appearance in the FIFA Women's World Cup on Friday afternoon,...
WASHINGTON, United States -- July 2023 will probably be the world's hottest month in "hundreds, if not thousands, of years," top NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt said Thursday. This month has already seen daily records shattered according to tools run by the European Union and the University of...
LONDON, United Kingdom -- Britain's ruling Conservative Party on Friday held the former seat of ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a surprise result driven by anger at the expansion of a tax on polluting vehicles. Current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was braced for a triple blow after voters went to...
SAN FRANCISCO , United States -- Google is working with news publishers to design a new AI-backed tool to help journalists report and write their stories, the company said on Thursday. The project was first reported by The New York Times, which is working with The Washington Post and The Wall Street...
PARIS, France -- Nearly five billion people, or slightly more than 60 percent of the world's population, are active on social media, according to a recent study. That represents an increase of 3.7 percent over the past year, according to calculations by digital advisory firm Kepios in its latest...
WASHINGTON, United States -- A mile-thick ice sheet in Greenland vanished around 416,000 years ago during a period of moderate natural warming, driving global sea rise to levels that would spell catastrophe for coastal regions today, a study said Thursday. The results overturn a long-held view that...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The United States fears an American soldier held by North Korea may be mistreated by Pyongyang, which has yet to respond to inquiries about his fate, officials said Thursday. Private Second Class Travis King was due to return to the United States to face disciplinary...
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine - Russian missiles and drones hit the Ukrainian port of Odesa for a third "hellish" night in a row as Crimean authorities said a teenager had been killed in Kyiv's latest attack on the peninsula. Russian forces also targeted Mykolaiv, another Black Sea port through which...
PARIS, France - A man dubbed the "Geneva patient" is the latest person with HIV to be declared in long-term remission -- however he did not receive a transplant with a virus-blocking gene mutation like previous cases, researchers said on Thursday. But they stopped short of saying the man was...
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea said Thursday the current port visit of a US nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea "may fall under the conditions" for Pyongyang to use nuclear weapons, its defence minister said. Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points, with diplomacy...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine said Thursday that ships going to Russian-controlled ports on the Black Sea would be treated as possibly carrying military cargo, a day after Russia announced a similar move. Tensions are rising over the Black Sea after Russia exited a deal protecting maritime exports from...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq on Thursday expelled Sweden's ambassador after a man stomped on a copy of the Koran at a Stockholm demonstration just hours after the Swedish embassy in Baghdad was torched over the planned protest. Sweden-based Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, 37, stomped and kicked the Koran...
