MADRID, Spain - Temperatures are expected to hit 44 degrees Centigrade (111 Fahrenheit) in Spain and Portugal on Wednesday as the two countries boil under their third heatwave of the summer. With huge forest fires raging across southern Portugal for the fifth successive day, Spain's weather...
TURKU, Finland -- With cruise bookings seeing a resurgence after the Covid pandemic caused luxury liners to mothball, a Finnish shipyard is putting the final touches on what will be the world's largest cruise ship. Royal Caribbean's luxurious new vessel Icon of the Seas is nearing completion in the...
TOKYO, Japan -- Airlines cancelled several hundred flights and authorities issued warnings Wednesday as tropical storm Khanun barrelled off Japan's southern coast towards South Korea. The storm, which has been downgraded from typhoon status, has already prompted South Korea to begin the evacuation...
The United Nations (UN) has called on nations to urgently address the food insecurity, climate crisis, global boiling, civil and international conflicts, the lingering effects of Covid, and extreme poverty wherein millions more people are expected to experience by 2030 as the world goes off track...
BEIJING, China -- Thirty-three people have been confirmed dead and 18 are still missing after Beijing's heaviest rains on record, officials said Wednesday. China's capital has been hit by record downpours in recent weeks, damaging infrastructure and deluging swathes of the city's suburbs and...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Danish pharma group Novo Nordisk's obesity drug Wegovy cuts the risk of heart attacks and strokes by a fifth, the company said in an announcement Tuesday that sent its shares soaring to a record high. Though preliminary, it is the first research to suggest this class of...
WINDHAM, United States -- Former US president Donald Trump blasted the multiple prosecutions threatening his re-election bid on Tuesday, complaining that court appearances would keep him off the campaign trail for much of 2024. Speaking in New Hampshire days after being indicted for a third time in...
BANFF, Canada -- Hundreds of tourists spent a night trapped atop a mountain in Canada's Banff National Park, after a storm knocked out power to a gondola, officials and tourists said Tuesday. Images on social media showed people sleeping on the floor of a visitor center at the peak overnight Monday...
ANKARA, Türkiye -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that the revival of a deal with Russia to allow Ukrainian grain exports, brokered by Ankara and the UN, "depends on Western countries which must keep their promises". "I think a solution can be found," Erdogan added,...
WASHINGTON, United States -- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned against Russia's Wagner mercenaries taking advantage of instability in coup-hit Niger, whose neighbor Mali has become a partner of Moscow. In an interview with the BBC released Tuesday, Blinken doubted that Wagner -- which...
MARSEILLE, FRANCE - Five French police were arrested on Tuesday over the death of a 27-year-old man in the southern city of Marseille in early July during nationwide rioting, prosecutors said. France was convulsed in late June and early July by violent rioting over the killing outside Paris on June...
SYDNEY, Australia - Western Australia said Tuesday it is axing a five-week-old law to protect Indigenous sites, introduced after Rio Tinto blew up a 46,000-year-old sacred rock shelter in the state. The decision to repeal the legislation was condemned by Indigenous groups, who complained of...
