The leader of France’s hardline CGT union yesterday urged all workers to join pension strikes that have crippled public transport over the past…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has declared an end to moratoriums on nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests and threatened a demonstration of a “new strategic weapon”. Here are the key steps in the development of the regime’s banned nuclear weapons and ballistic missile…

Tens of thousands of pro-democracy marchers thronged the streets of Hong Kong for a massive rally on New Year’s Day, looking to carry the momentum of their movement into 2020 as police and hardcore demonstrators faced off again. Hong Kong has been battered by nearly seven months of often-violent…

The Pacific nation of Palau has become the first country to ban sun cream that is harmful to corals and sea life. From yesterday, sun cream that includes…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s dream project of building a canal in Istanbul to rival those at Suez and Panama has turned into a political showdown…

December served up a warning of the massive challenges ahead for the European Union. Freak storms wreaked havoc on parts of southern Europe, showing how the impact of extreme weather will drive the bloc’s thinking and climate change policy over the coming years. The EU has already said it wants…

Pope Francis apologised yesterday for his widely-viewed slap of a woman who had grabbed his hand as he greeted Catholic faithful on New Year’s Eve.…

The Pacific nation of Palau has become the first country to ban sun cream that is harmful to corals and sea life. From yesterday, sun cream that includes…

INDIA TARGETS NEW MOON MISSION IN 2020 AFP, Bangalore, India India plans to make a fresh attempt to land an unmanned mission on the moon in 2020 after a failed bid last year, the head of the country’s space programme said yestreday. Work is going “smoothly” on the Chandrayaan-3 mission…

Two Indian soldiers were killed yesterday in a gunfight with suspected militants along the border that divides the disputed territory of Kashmir between archrivals India and Pakistan, officials said. The two were killed during an operation to intercept Pakistani infiltrators who were attempting to cross…