Indonesia's leader on Wednesday hailed a "new era" of trade relations with the United States, after Donald Trump said he slashed the tariff rate faced by Southeast Asia's biggest economy from 32 ...

Flanker Rob Valetini has resumed training in a big boost for Australia ahead of the first Test against the British and Irish Lions, with assistant coach Geoff Parling Wednesday  "very hopeful" the ...

Leo XIV has not long been pope, yet the American head of the Catholic Church already receives 100 kilogrammes of letters a ...

Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, AbbVie, Pfizer and more pharma stocks shrug even amid Trump's fresh pharma tariff threats.

A teacher and a parent of a high school student in South Korea have been arrested for breaking into a school to steal exam papers, police told AFP on Wednesday.

A bear sighting on Wednesday prompted organisers of a golf tournament in Japan to cancel the opening day -- the second time an ursine invader has halted play in the last two months.

Tariff troubles may be making a comeback. It’s the kind of backdrop that almost demands investors start taking profits.

A volcano erupted on Wednesday in Iceland's Reykjanes peninsula in the southwest, weather authorities said, the ninth eruption to hit the region since the end of 2023.

The company reports adjusted earnings of $2.77 a share for the second quarter, beating analysts’ estimates of $2.68.

Pakistanis are increasingly ditching the national grid in favour of solar power, prompting a boom in rooftop panels and spooking a government weighed down by billions of dollars of power sector debt.

Israel on Wednesday said it was sending more troops to the border with Syria, after vowing to step up attacks if government forces were not withdrawn from the south of the country.

From the air, Monguno looks like a fortress, with deep trenches slashing into the sand around this garrison town in northeast Nigeria's volatile Borno State.