US President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 2, 2023. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) WASHINGTON, United States– President Joe Biden admitted Wednesday he was worried that political turmoil in...
TOKYO, Japan– Japan has seen its hottest September since records began 125 years ago, the weather agency said, in a year expected to be the warmest in human history. The scorching September's average temperature was 2.66 degrees Celsius (36.78 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than usual, the...
LONDON, United Kingdom– A lightning strike hit a UK food waste recycling plant on Monday, sending a huge fireball into the night sky and cutting power nearby. Severn Trent Green Power, which runs the Cassington AD (anaerobic digestion) facility near Yarnton, just north of the city of...
UAW members and workers hold signs outside the Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant after walking off their jobs in Chicago, Illinois, on September 29, 2023. Another 7,000 members of the biggest US automobile workers' union on Friday joined an already major strike against the top three Detroit car...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See -- Five conservative cardinals urged Pope Francis to reaffirm traditional Catholic doctrine in a document made public Monday, two days before a major gathering on the Church's future. Pope Francis (AFP) The cardinals, from four different continents, asked...
NEW YORK, United States -- US Representative Matt Gaetz, a Republican, on Monday moved ahead with his attempt to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy from the leadership post, offering a motion to vacate the chair on the House floor. This official photo of U.S. House Representative Matt Gaetz, a...
NEW YORK, United States -- The trials of Donald Trump began on Monday in a New York courtroom, where the former president made an appearance to fight the first of several government actions against him - a civil case that "imperils his company and threatens his image as a master of the business...
GENEVA, Switzerland– The UN's health agency on Monday recommended a second malaria vaccine for children, which could save hundreds of thousands of lives by plugging a huge supply and demand gap. Nearly half a million children in the African region die every year from the disease, which...
SYDNEY, Australia– A man was killed and another injured after a whale struck a boat off the coast of eastern Australia on Saturday, police said. The two men were thrown from the boat when it was hit at about 6:00 am local time (2000 GMT on Friday) in the waters off La Perouse, 14...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia- Hundreds of forest fires in Indonesia have caused haze that has worsened air quality in parts of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur's top environment official has said, a claim Jakarta denied on Saturday. Outbreaks of smog-belching forest fires in 2019 caused Malaysia to say it...
AFP/ MANILA BULLETIN BERLIN, Germany– Billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday waded into German politics at a time of a heated debate on immigration across Europe, saying Berlin-funded migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean could be seen as an "invasion" of Italy. Musk, who was born...
A general view shows the crowd during a consistory to create 21 new cardinals at St. Peter's square in The Vatican on September 30, 2023. Pope Francis elevates 21 clergymen from all corners of the world to the rank of cardinal -- most of whom may one day cast ballots to elect his successor. (Photo...
