5.7-magnitude quake shakes Philippines' main island: USGS | Continue reading
France on Saturday accused Australia and the United States of lying over a ruptured Australian contract to buy French submarines, warning a grave crisis was underway between the allies. | Continue reading
A failure to slash global emissions is setting the world on a "catastrophic" path to 2.7 degrees Celsius heating, UN chief Antonio Guterres warned Friday just weeks before crunch climate talks. | Continue reading
China is poised to test a thorium-powered nuclear reactor in September, the world’s first since 1969. The theory is that this new molten-salt technology will be “safer” and “greener” than regular ura… | Continue reading
France's top court on Tuesday overturned a decision by a lower court to dismiss charges brought against cement giant Lafarge for complicity in crimes against humanity in Syria's civil war. | Continue reading
Global warming is already affecting people's health so much that emergency action on climate change cannot be put on hold while the world deals with the Covid-19 pandemic, medical journals across the… | Continue reading
Nearly 30 percent of the 138,374 species assessed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for its survival watchlist are now at risk of vanishing in the wild forever, as the… | Continue reading
Sri Lanka organic revolution threatens tea disaster | Continue reading
Former IOC president Jacques Rogge dead at 79 - official | Continue reading
Visually impaired Paralympian hit by self-driving bus | Continue reading
Could bats hold the secret to healthy ageing? | Continue reading
China will now allow couples to legally have a third child as it seeks to hold off a demographic crisis that could threaten its hopes of increased prosperity and global influence. | Continue reading
New heat record in Italy as 'Lucifer' sweeps in | Continue reading
British coronavirus vaccine developer Sarah Gilbert has many science accolades to her credit but now shares an honor with Beyonce, Marilyn Monroe and Eleanor Roosevelt: a Barbie doll in her likeness. | Continue reading
After rising to the fore in the US during the most fraught presidential campaign the country has seen for decades, the QAnon phenomenon has emerged in France – prompting President Emmanuel Macron’s g… | Continue reading
Record-setting super shoes are here to stay, say experts | Continue reading
Daimler prepares for all-electric shift by 2030 | Continue reading
Pakistan blocks TikTok again over 'inappropriate content' | Continue reading
The cell phones of French President Emmanuel Macron and 15 members of the French government may have been among potential targets in 2019 of surveillance by spyware made by the Israel-based NSO Group… | Continue reading
An Israeli firm accused of supplying spyware to governments has been linked to a list of tens of thousands of smartphone numbers, including those of activists, journalists, business executives and po… | Continue reading
BioNTech produces 10 times more antibodies than China's Sinovac: study | Continue reading
The EU went into battle on Wednesday to secure a path to its bold pledge of carbon neutrality by 2050, triggering an epic political clash over electric cars and fuel prices that could last for years. | Continue reading
Satellite data helped indigenous Peruvians save rainforest: study | Continue reading
SKorea to raise Covid-19 restrictions to highest level in capital | Continue reading
Opel to be 100% electric in Europe by 2028: CEO | Continue reading
Russian law takes fizz out of French champagne supplies | Continue reading
Canada mandates new cars to be zero-emissions by 2035 | Continue reading
Belarus IT sector hit by exodus after post-vote crackdown | Continue reading
Major banks, airlines report online outages | Continue reading
French nuclear firm seeks to resolve 'performance issue' at China plant | Continue reading
India warns Twitter to comply with new IT rules | Continue reading
Sunday's revelations that Danish spies helped the US National Security Agency (NSA) monitor European leaders highlighted the pivotal role that the Scandinavian country has played for US intelligence… | Continue reading
India tells social media firms to take down 'Indian variant' posts | Continue reading
Italy’s anti-trust authority said Thursday it had fined Google more than 100 million euros ($120mn) for shutting out a rival’s smartphone app offering recharging of electric vehicles. | Continue reading
Hong Kong's Joshua Wong handed extra jail time for Tiananmen vigil | Continue reading
Navalny network disbands as gaunt Kremlin critic appears in court | Continue reading
'Landmark' advance as malaria vaccine first to hit WHO goal | Continue reading
Pakistan's government ordered the country's telecoms agency to temporarily shut down social media and instant messaging platforms on Friday after days of violent anti-France protests. | Continue reading
President Emmanuel Macron extended light lockdown measures from 19 areas including Paris to all of mainland France from April 3 for 4 weeks at a televised address on the resurgent Covid-19 pandemic o… | Continue reading
The Louvre museum in Paris said Friday it has put nearly half a million items from its collection online for the public to visit free of charge. | Continue reading
French President Emmanuel Macron announced a decision Tuesday to speed up the declassification of secret documents related to Algeria’s 1954-62 war of independence from France. | Continue reading
Russia has registered the first case of a strain of bird flu virus named A(H5N8) being passed to humans from birds and has reported the matter to the World Health Organization (WHO), Anna Popova, hea… | Continue reading
French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist government launched procedures to shut down the group Generation Identity on February 13 as it attempts to tackle far-right extremism. | Continue reading
To realise his dream of satellite-powered internet, tech billionaire Elon Musk needs to install antennas around the world. In northern France, a village hopes he’ll decide to keep those antennas far… | Continue reading
China's Tianwen-1 probe has sent back its first image of Mars, the national space agency said, as the mission prepares to touch down on the Red Planet later this year. | Continue reading
A Paris court on Wednesday found the French state guilty of failing to meet its commitments to curb greenhouse gas emissions in a landmark ruling hailed by activists as a "historic victory for climat… | Continue reading
The U.S. has reaffirmed its support for Taiwan following China’s dispatch of warplanes near the island in an apparent attempt to intimidate its democratic government and test the resolve of the new A… | Continue reading
China on Friday executed a former top banker accused of taking $260 million worth of bribes, other forms of corruption and bigamy, state broadcaster CCTV reported. | Continue reading