Glimmering sea of solar as China expands desert installation

Desert solar installations are a key part of China's plans to reach carbon neutrality by 2060
25 September 2025

France's Sarkozy set to learn fate in Libya case

Sarkozy has already been convicted in two separate cases and stripped of France's highest honour
25 September 2025

How healthy is our planet?

Earth has crossed 7 of 9 planetary boundaries, scientists warn
25 September 2025

Drones observed over four Denmark airports: police

Drones were seen at the airports in Aalborg, Esbjerg, Sonderborg and at the Skrydstrup airbase before leaving on their own
25 September 2025

Kimmel scores decade-high ratings amid Trump fight: Disney

Early figures showed more than six million people tuned in to the broadcast
25 September 2025

Palestinian leader to address UN as peace push gathers steam

The General Assembly overwhelmingly voted to let Abbas address the world body with a video message.
25 September 2025

Hong Kong reopens after world's most powerful cyclone Ragasa

Ragasa brought the densely populated city to a standstill from Tuesday afternoon
25 September 2025

One killed in shooting at US ICE facility

One person was killed and two wounded in a shooting yesterday at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in the US city of Dallas, officials said.
24 September 2025

Strike on market in Sudan kills 15 people

A drone strike on a market in Sudan’s besieged city of El-Fasher killed 15 people, a medical worker at the local hospital told AFP yesterday.
24 September 2025

Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti passes away

Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Sheikh, Saudi Arabia‘s grand mufti who served the kingdom’s top religious figure over a quarter century that saw the ultraconservative Muslim nation socially liberalise, died Tuesday. He was in his 80s.
24 September 2025

Israeli strikes on shelter, fleeing people kill dozens

Israeli forces killed dozens of people across the Palestinian territory yesterday, as the military pressed its assault on Gaza City, from where hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee.
24 September 2025

EU chief backs calls to keep children off social media

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen yesterday threw her support behind growing calls to ban social media use for children, promising to weigh action at Europe in coming months.
24 September 2025

Macron warns against ‘survival of the fittest’ in world affairs

French President Emmanuel Macron warned Tuesday against allowing an approach of “survival of the fittest” to take hold in international relations as he addressed the UN General Assembly.
24 September 2025

Iran will never seek nuke weapons

Iran’s president yesterday repeated that his country is not seeking nuclear weapons, after military strikes by Israel and the United States earlier this year, and impending sanctions triggered by European powers.
24 September 2025

5 killed in Ladakh autonomy protests

Five people were killed in India yesterday as police clashed with hundreds of protesters demanding greater autonomy in the Himalayan territory of Ladakh, leaving “dozens” injured, police said.
24 September 2025

Typhoon slams into south China; 17 killed in Taiwan

Fierce winds, pounding rain and rough seas battered southern China yesterday as powerful Typhoon Ragasa made landfall in Guangdong province after killing at least 17 in Taiwan.
24 September 2025

Russia ‘real bear’, not ‘paper tiger’

The Kremlin yesterday said it would press on with its military offensive in Ukraine and rejected US President Donald Trump’s claim that Kyiv’s army could retake territory it had seized.
24 September 2025

Indonesia leader offers 20,000 troops for post-war Gaza

Also willing to send peacekeepers elsewhere
24 September 2025

At least 4 killed in Ladakh protests demanding statehood

BJP office attacked, several vehicles torched
24 September 2025

Trump promises he won’t let Israel annex West Bank

Mentioned in a white paper outlining Trump administration’s plan to end the Gaza war
24 September 2025