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Hong Kong’s development chief has dismissed concerns that commercial floor space in the Northern Metropolis megaproject will further depress the city’s struggling office market, stressing that incoming supply is primarily for the innovation and technology (I&T) sector. Secretary for Development Bernadette Linn Hon-ho told the Legislative Council on Thursday that the 1 million square metres (10.8 m...
Images from the scene in eastern Ukraine showed bodies and body parts strewed across a road and the burned shells of the buses.
At least 30 people were killed when a Russian bomb struck two buses in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, local officials said, as Moscow’s intensifies attacks.
At least 30 people were killed when a Russian bomb struck two buses in the Ukrainian frontline city of Kramatorsk Thursday, local officials said, as Moscow’s intensifying attacks grow ever more deadly.
A bomb killed at least 30 people on a bus in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk Thursday, authorities said, amid intensifying Russian attacks throughout the country.
In northern and central Europe, pets stay outside hospitals. São João's flexible model unites clinical benefits and safety, with no infections yet. "There is too much fear," says the doctor who helped draft the project's rules.
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary expects Europe to have enough jet fuel through next summer, but warns that high prices will persist for another 12 to 18 months.
Authorities have released a 22-year-old British man on bail after his arrest on suspicion of plotting a terror attack at a U.S.-run military air base in England
Nationwide outrage grows after the death of woman whose eviction sparked protests and political tensions.
The Philippines is “resigned” to managing its long-standing dispute with Beijing in the South China Sea and avoiding dangerous escalations, President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr said on Thursday. At the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Singapore, Marcos said: “I don’t know if we can find a resolution to the problem, but we are resigned to just being able to manage the problem, so that we do not have mista...
Pupils barricaded a secondary school in northeastern Paris with rubbish bins on Thursday before police moved in with tear gas, as France’s nationwide protests showed few signs of ending. The Helene Boucher high school has been a flashpoint for clashes in the French capital and was one of hundreds of schools disrupted by protests on Thursday. Riot police gathered in side streets as pupils converged...
France’s education minister on Thursday promised 3,000 substitute teachers for the country’s worst-off high schools, after tens of thousands took to the streets nationwide to demand better education and less police brutality. Pupils have blocked entrances to hundreds of high schools for more than a week, with squads of riot police deployed – occasionally resulting in violent clashes. High school p...
French teenagers blockaded some high schools and marched through cities on Thursday as the government promised to address their grievances about teacher shortages and dilapidated school buildings but gave few specific details. The protest movement, now into its third week, has exposed deep tensions in France between popular demands for investments in deteriorating public services and a cash-strapp...
French teenagers blockaded some high schools and marched through cities on Thursday after the government promised to address their grievances about teacher shortages and dilapidated school buildings but gave no specific details. The protest movement, now into its third week, has exposed deep tensions in France between popular demands for investments in deteriorating public services and a cash-stra...
Donald Trump says he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, citing his efforts to resolve international conflicts.
PRESS REVIEW – Thursday, October 8: Maricarmen, the evicted Spanish pensioner who became the face of Spain's housing crisis, dies in hospital. Also, France braces for "Act Four" of high school student protests against dilapidated schools and poor staff presence. Finally, actress Zendaya sparks a row over etiquette at Paris Fashion Week.
Customers are told payment details and passwords were not compromised when employee account was breachedBusiness live – live updatesHackers gained access to Asos customer names and contact details by impersonating a “trusted contact” to gain access to one of its employee’s accounts, the retailer has said.Thousands of users of the online fashion seller’s app received a notification on Tuesday title...
Devastating blaze near Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk among a record 624 wildfires in July this yearJuly was the worst on record for wildfires in England, provisional data shows, with England experiencing a clear upward trend in the total number of wildfires recorded.This summer has been a stark reminder of the vulnerability of the UK to climate breakdown, after punishingly hot and dr...
Devastating blaze near Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk among a record 624 wildfires in July this yearJuly was the worst on record for wildfires in England, provisional data shows, with England experiencing a clear upward trend in the total number of wildfires recorded.This summer has been a stark reminder of the vulnerability of the UK to climate breakdown, after punishingly hot and dr...
Russia’s public health watchdog has denied that a lab worker who died in Siberia had spread infection to another person as global concerns swirled about suspected pneumonic plague
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Portugal, wrapping up a tour of NATO allies
Myanmar leader Min Aung Hlaing in Malaysia for a two-day visit, his first since he became president in April.
Eighteen people were wounded in strike on the city in eastern Donetsk region, local authorities say.
Eighteen people were wounded in the Russian attack on city in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, local authorities say.
Fourteen people were wounded in the Russian strike on city in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region, local authorities say.
The African Union launched the continent's first credit rating agency on Wednesday, seeking to provide an alternative to the "big three" global ratings agencies as debt burdens weigh on many African economies. The Africa Credit Rating Agency (AfCRA) — the creation of which African leaders endorsed in 2018 — was launched at a ceremony attended by African officials in Port Louis, the capital of Ma...
Lenora Thaker wins $30,000 prize for ‘a work of state significance’ for The Pearl of Tagai Town, which draws on her family’s history in Cairns-Malay TownA “stunning” debut novel described as “unambiguously and distinctively Queensland” has won the $30,000 top prize at the Queensland literary awards (QLAs).Meriam and Wagedagam author Lenora Thaker won the Queensland premier’s award for a work of st...
Eritrean troops have deployed in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, multiple sources said Wednesday, threatening to turn an internal conflict into a wider regional war. Fighting broke out between the rebel Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and Ethiopian federal forces on September 23, sparking fears of a return to the devastating 2020-2022 civil war. Ethiopia accuses Eritrea of backing the r...
