NEW DELHI, India– India's space agency takes aim at another milestone Saturday with the launch of a probe to study the Sun, a week after its successful unmanned landing on the Moon. Aditya-L1 will carry scientific instruments to observe the Sun's outermost layers, blasting off at 11:50...
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia– Pope Francis is due to meet the tiny but vibrant community of Catholics in Mongolia on Saturday, part of his first papal visit to the Buddhist-majority nation strategically located between China and Russia. The 86-year-old Jesuit was feted in the morning with an...
Russia's top independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta chief editor and the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov meets with reporters outside the newspaper's office in Moscow on October 8, 2021. Russia on September 1, 2023 added respected journalist and Nobel Prize co-recipient Dmitry Muratov to...
Presidential candidate Tharman Shanmugaratnam greets his supporters while waiting for the Presidential election results in Singapore on September 1, 2023. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP) SINGAPORE, Singapore– Singapore's former deputy prime minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam was elected...
A car drives past tree branches crashed by high winds brought by Super Typhoon Saola in Tseung Kwan O in Hong Kong on September 2, 2023. (Photo by Mehdi LEBOUACHERA / AFP) Hong Kong, China– Typhoon Saola roared ashore in southern China early Saturday as a weakened but still dangerous...
OTTAWA, Canada– Ottawa on Friday spelled out how a new law requiring digital giants to pay publishers for news content will work in practice, including how much it could cost Meta and Google. The bill aims to support a struggling Canadian news sector that has seen a flight of...
TOKYO, Japan– Japan's defence ministry on Thursday requested a record budget worth $53 billion for the next fiscal year as tensions rise with China and North Korea. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida last year unveiled a major security overhaul including a pledge to raise defence spending to...
A worker from the Secretary of Environment prunes a palm tree that was attacked by a plague in Mexico City on August 10, 2023. More than 150 iconic palm trees had to be removed from the traditional Colonia Narvarte and Del Valle neighborhoods in Mexico City. Sedema (Secretary of Environment) stated...
The "Blue Supermoon", the second full moon of a calendar month, rises in the city of Rabat on August 30, 2023. (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP) WASHINGTON, United States– Astronomy enthusiasts are in for a treat Wednesday night: a rare "super blue Moon" that won't be seen again for more...
PARIS, France– France's transport minister called Wednesday for a minimum price for plane flights in Europe to battle climate change. Transport Minister Clement Beaune said in an interview with the weekly L'Obs that he would submit such a proposal to his EU counterparts in the coming...
SEOUL, South Korea– North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea late Wednesday, the South Korean military told Yonhap news agency -- launches that coincided with joint military drills by the United States and South Korea. The missiles were fired towards the East...
WASHINGTON, United States– Tesla is under investigation over accusations that it misused company funds to work on a secret glass house project for CEO Elon Musk, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The project is being investigated by US prosecutors as well as the Security...
