BANGKOK (AFP) – Thai retailers kicked off 2020 with a ban on single-use plastic bags, joining the battle against throwaway carriers in the…
PARIS (AFP) – A computer programme can identify breast cancer from routine scans with greater accuracy than human experts, researchers said in what…
PARIS (AFP) – Schoolchildren skipping class to strike, protests bringing city centres to a standstill: armed with dire warnings from scientists, people around…
WASHINGTON DC (AFP) – In 1,414 words, the articles of impeachment presented to the House of Representatives Wednesday lay out two charges against…
BETHLEHEM (AFP) –Â Less than an hour after a group of Indian tourists arrive at Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, they exit smiling, directly…
GENEVA (AFP) – Women may have to wait more than two centuries for equality at work, according to a report on Tuesday showing…
MADRID (AFP) –Â A major climate summit wrapped up in Madrid Sunday with a compromise deal that left little to show, prompting UN Secretary-General…
NEW YORK (AFP) – Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who became the voice of a generation facing the climate change emergency, was Wednesday…
HONG KONG (AFP) –Â Pro-democracy demonstrators holed up in a Hong Kong university campus set the main entrance ablaze Monday to prevent surrounding police…
BEIJING (AFP) –Â A rare and huge leak of Chinese government documents has shed new light on a security crackdown on Muslims in China’s…