The amount of cocaine seized in Europe’s key port of Antwerp jumped more than 36 percent to a record of nearly 90 tonnes last year, Belgian officials said Friday.

What’s in a name? For Indian travel start-up founder Kovid Kapoor, it has made him a social media sensation.

France’s biggest literary star, Michel Houellebecq, was back in bookshops Friday, with many eager to know what the famously prescient author has to say in the midst of a bruising election campaign.

France is considering cancelling the Dakar rally after an explosion in Saudi Arabia that badly injured a French driver and prosecutors are investigating as a suspected terror attack, the foreign minister said Friday.

Dozens of senior Hong Kong officials and lawmakers were ordered into quarantine on Friday after a coronavirus cluster widened at a birthday party attended by many of the city’s political elite.

Four police officers were ambushed and killed on Friday in a coastal region of Kenya bordering Somalia that is prone to incursions by Al-Shabaab militants, a government official told AFP.

At least 20 people were trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building after an explosion on Friday in the Chinese city of Chongqing, according to state media.

McDonald’s Taiwan said Friday some of its stores were running out of hash browns imported from the United States and would have to suspend sales due to “unstable global shipping supply”.

Covid-19 killed at least one parent or primary caregiver for nearly 100,000 children in Peru, the country with the world’s highest coronavirus death rate, its government reported Thursday.

The US Supreme Court is to hear challenges on Friday to President Joe Biden’s bid to impose Covid vaccination mandates on millions of American workers.

Almost every country on Earth could experience extremely hot years every other year by 2030, according to new research Thursday highlighting the outsized contribution of emissions from the world’s major polluters.

Driverless plows and autonomous tools to weed vegetable plots are the latest innovations ready to help farmers juggling labor shortages, climate change and environmental protection, while trying to feed a growing world population.

The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday rejected a case brought over a UK bakery’s refusal to bake a gay wedding cake, saying British legal options had to be exhausted before it would get involved.

A top health official in China’s locked-down Xi’an apologised on Thursday over the miscarriage of an eight-month pregnant woman, after footage went viral of a hospital refusing her entry without a Covid test.

Child marriage became illegal in the Philippines on Thursday as a law banning the practice took effect in a country where one in six girls enters wedlock before the age of 18.

Taiwan has started deporting Chinese nationals for the first time in over a year, authorities said Thursday, following China’s return of a Taiwanese fugitive in a rare act of cooperation as tensions rise.

Gunmen have kidnapped three Chinese workers at a hydro-electric dam project in central Nigeria, with two local workers killed after clashes between the gang and security forces, police said on Thursday.

Grieving family members on Monday blocked a major road in Guatemala with the coffins of victims of a weekend massacre by a rival group, as President Alejandro Giammattei enacted measures to establish order and prevent further bloodshed.

Britain’s spy chief on Thursday thanked China’s state news agency for “free publicity” after it posted a spoof of James Bond that mocked the Western intelligence community’s growing focus on threats posed by Beijing.

General Motors launched its all-electric Chevrolet Silverado on Wednesday, formally entering a contest for the lucrative US pickup market against fellow Detroit giant Ford as well as Tesla and other electric vehicle upstarts.

Macau has announced a two-week ban on any inbound passenger flights from outside of China after three coronavirus cases were found in passengers arriving from overseas.

A ring shimmers on display at the Consumer Electronics Show, but this is no mere piece of jewelry – it’s packed with sensors capable of detecting body temperature, respiration and much more.

A bill introduced in Senegal’s parliament to toughen criminal penalties for homosexuals fell at the first hurdle on Wednesday, failing to progress to the assembly’s main floor.

In the case of a divorce, who keeps the family cat or dog? Spain has ruled that, as with children, parents should in some cases share custody.

More than six million people in drought-hit areas of eastern and southern Ethiopia will need “life-saving” assistance this year, the UN’s emergency response agency said in a new report.