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Russia hits civilian, critical infrastructure, injures 10 in Ukraine
KYIV - Attacks by Russian forces on Ukraine overnight and on Thursday across the country hit civilian and critical infrastructure...
Oct 11, 20242 min read
Ukraine's vast forests devastated in hellscape of war
SVIATI HORY NATIONAL PARK, Ukraine - Serhiy Tsapok surveyed the smouldering ruins of pine trees, blackened stumps as far as the eye can...
Oct 11, 20245 min read
Nobel chemistry prize 2024 goes to trio of protein pioneers
STOCKHOLM - U.S. scientists David Baker and John Jumper and Briton Demis Hassabis won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for...
Oct 11, 20243 min read
Nobel prize in physics goes to machine learning pioneers Hopfield and Hinton
STOCKHOLM - U.S. scientist John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for...
Oct 11, 20243 min read
2024 Nobel prizes announced this week
STOCKHOLM - The Nobel prizes are to be announced this week, starting with the award for medicine or physiology on Monday. The awards,...
Oct 11, 20242 min read
Exclusive-British Foreign Secretary Lammy to visit China in bid to reset ties, sources say
BEIJING - Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy will visit China next week, sources familiar with the plan said, as the new Labour...
Oct 11, 20242 min read
Soccer-Spain's first transgender soccer team makes debut in regional men's league
SANT FELIU DE LLOBREGAT, Spain - A soccer team consisting entirely of transgender men has made its debut in a regional league in Spain,...
Oct 5, 20242 min read
Death toll in worst Bosnian floods in years rises to 16, officials say
DONJA JABLANICA, Bosnia - At least 16 people died in floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday and many others were missing as...
Oct 5, 20243 min read
EU presses ahead with Chinese EV tariffs after divided vote
BRUSSELS - The European Union will press ahead with hefty tariffs on China-made electric vehicles, the EU executive said on Friday, even...
Oct 5, 20244 min read
New NATO chief Rutte reaffirms support for Ukraine on Kyiv trip
KYIV - NATO chief Mark Rutte told Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy "your security matters for ours" on Thursday during his first...
Oct 4, 20242 min read
UK cedes Chagos Island sovereignty to Mauritius, retains Diego Garcia airbase
LONDON/PORT LOUIS - Britain said on Thursday it would cede sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal it said secured the...
Oct 4, 20243 min read
EXPLAINER-Soccer-The case of Lassana Diarra v FIFA
PARIS - Former France player Lassana Diarra's case against soccer's world governing body FIFA will be ruled on by the Court of Justice of...
Oct 4, 20242 min read
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