Billionaire Elon Musk on Monday asked Twitter users to weigh in on a plan to end Russia’s war in Ukraine that drew condemnation from Ukrainians, including President Zelensky.

Swedish geneticist Svante Paabo yesterday won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that underpin our understanding of how modern day humans evolved from extinct ancestors.

Britain’s King Charles will not attend a world leaders’ climate change summit in Egypt next month, a royal source said yesterday, as the new monarch steps back from his previous high-profile campaigning roles.

Pope Francis for the first time directly begged Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday to stop the “spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine, saying that the crisis was risking a nuclear escalation with uncontrollable global consequences.

Finland’s long-delayed Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor has reached full power to become the most powerful electricity production facility in Europe, operator TVO said yesterday, a boost amid a continent-wide energy crunch.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree making it easier for foreigners to obtain Russian citizenship if they join the army, a

After years of decline, the planet is now witnessing a “worrying upsurge” in cholera outbreaks, the World Health Organization warned yesterday.

A resurgent Hurricane Ian yesterday barrelled north toward a second landfall in South Carolina, a day after carving a path of destruction across central Florida that left rescue crews racing to reach trapped residents along the state’s Gulf Coast.

Britain is not yet in recession, revised data showed yesterday in a boost for under-fire Prime Minister Liz Truss, but its economy may still face a downturn on soaring interest rates.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday presided over a ceremony to annex four Ukrainian regions partly occupied by his forces, escalating his seven-month war and taking it into an unpredictable new phase.

Facebook should pay reparations to the hundreds of thousands of Rohingya forced from their homes in Myanmar in a campaign exacerbated by

Rescue workers and residents of Florida’s Gulf Coast searched for missing people and picked up the pieces from wrecked homes yesterday after Hurricane Ian tore through the area with howling winds, torrential rains and raging surf.

Finland said on Thursday it would close its border to Russian tourists at midnight, shutting off the last remaining direct land route to the European Union for them as thousands of Russians seek to avoid conscription into the war in Ukraine.

Once unthinkable, mobile phones could go dark around Europe this winter if power cuts or energy rationing knocks out parts of the mobile networks across the region.

Any intentional disruption to EU energy networks would meet a "robust and united response", its top diplomat said, after several states said two Russian pipelines to Europe had been attacked, causing gas to spew into the Baltic Sea.

President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to US whistleblower Edward Snowden, who exposed massive surveillance by the US National Security Agency on Americans and then sought refuge in Russia.

Labour leader Keir Starmer yesterday argued he was ready to lead Britain out of economic crisis, as a new poll gave his once-fractured party its biggest lead in two decades over the ruling Conservatives.

Governments around the world must scale up climate action “or face further legal action”, an open letter from 20 organisations around the world

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday renewed his call for the global abolition of nuclear weapons as concerns grow over Russia’s threat to use them in the Ukraine war.

Depositors scuffled and long lines formed at Lebanese banks yesterday as they partially reopened after a week-long closure following a slew of heists by customers desperate to access their money.