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Fresh records for Nvidia, Nasdaq despite sluggish...
Nvidia edged out other tech giants Tuesday to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company, a rise that also helped li...
US LGBTQ club shooter given another 55 life senten...
A mass shooter who killed five people at an LGBTQ club in the US state of Colorado pleaded guilty to hate crimes Tuesday over the...
AI goes mainstream as 'AI PCs' hit the market
A new line of PCs specially made to run artificial intelligence programs hit stores on Tuesday as tech companies push toward wider...
Kenya scraps most new tax hikes amid protest clash...
Kenya's government on Tuesday scrapped plans to impose multiple tax hikes, the presidency said, amending a controversial bill that...
Boeing CEO recognizes 'gravity' of safety crisis b...
Boeing's CEO acknowledged to a US congressional panel Tuesday that the company's culture was imperfect, but insisted the aviation...
Nvidia becomes world's most valuable company on st...
Nvidia edged ahead of other tech companies Tuesday to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company in the latest sign...
Senior US Fed official optimistic about inflation...
A senior Federal Reserve official said Tuesday that she is optimistic about the US central bank's progress against inflation, and...
Biden seeks to relax visa rules in wake of crackdo...
President Joe Biden announced Tuesday a new potential citizenship path for immigrants married to US nationals, balancing a recent...
Kenya scraps most new tax hikes as hundreds protes...
Kenya's government on Tuesday walked back plans to impose multiple tax hikes, the presidency said, amending a controversial bill t...
US retail sales come in below expectations in May
US retail sales came in below expectations for a second straight month in May as gas station revenues fell sharply, the governmen...
Swede freed in Iran prisoner swap gets a 'yes' fro...
A Swedish man freed in a rare prisoner swap with Iran proposed marriage to his boyfriend just minutes after his return home, the g...
'Victory for the people': Thailand approves same-s...
Thailand on Tuesday became the first country in Southeast Asia to legalise same-sex marriage, in a historic parliamentary vote hai...
Survivors recall horror of deadly double Indian tr...
Survivors of an Indian double train crash that killed nine people described on Tuesday their terror when a driver missed a signal...
Boeing CEO to face Capitol Hill grilling
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun will likely face tough questions Tuesday when a Senate panel grills the executive on safety problems, manu...
Meteoric rise of South Korea's webtoons powers Nas...
When Bae Jin-soo quit his well-paying job at one of South Korea's biggest conglomerates to write stories, his parents were so upse...
Asian markets rise with Wall St as traders eye lat...
Asian equities rallied Tuesday, tracking another tech-driven record on Wall Street, while investors awaited fresh US economic data...
Racist slur probe dropped against Uruguay club foo...
Uruguayan prosecutors have dropped an investigation into football coach Ricardo Caruso Lombardi, who quit his club last month amid...
New Zealand Super Rugby player dies after 'medical...
Former Otago Highlanders back Connor Garden-Bachop has died aged 25 after an unspecified "medical event", New Zealand Rugby said T...
Wall Street stocks end at fresh records
Wall Street stocks rallied to fresh records Monday behind enthusiasm over artificial intelligence, while European markets bounced...
'Stop homophobia' in rugby, says France star Dupon...
French rugby star and pin-up for this summer's Paris Olympics, Antoine Dupont has called for an end to the "macho" cliches linked...
China launches anti-dumping probe into EU pork imp...
China said Monday it had launched an anti-dumping investigation into pork imports from the European Union, the latest step in a mo...
Chairman of Italy's state-controlled shipbuilder d...
The chairman of Italy's state-controlled shipbuilder Fincantieri, Claudio Graziano, a retired general who once headed the UN peace...
China says launches anti-dumping probe into EU por...
China said Monday it had launched an anti-dumping investigation into pork imports from the European Union, the latest step in a mo...
Blind footballer brings game to visually impaired...
When football fanatic Othman al-Kinani became blind in 2008, the loss of his sight hit him hard, not least because he thought he'd...
Low snow on the Himalayas threatens water security...
Millions of people dependent on Himalayan snowmelt for water face a "very serious" risk of shortages this year after one of the lo...
Asian stocks drop after tepid Wall St lead, euro d...
Asian markets fell Monday to extend last week's losses, with traders trying to assess the Federal Reserve's plans for interest rat...
Nuclear arms spending soars as global tensions swe...
Nuclear-armed countries hiked spending on atomic weapons arsenals by a third in the past five years as they modernised their stock...
Once fruitful, Libyan village suffers climate cris...
In the Libyan village of Kabaw in the Nafusa Mountains, M'hamed Maakaf waters an ailing fig tree as climate change pushes villager...
'Meaty rice'? South Korean professor aims to chang...
In a small laboratory in Seoul, a team of South Korean scientists are injecting cultured beef cells into individual grains of rice...
Shareholders OK with soaring executive pay in US
Executive salaries at major US corporations are soaring -- but shareholders happy with stock prices and greater transparency over...
Serbia could mine lithium as early as 2028: FT
President Aleksandar Vucic said Serbia could exploit lithium as early as 2028 following new guarantees from Australian mining gian...
Hundreds gather in Kyiv for war-shrouded Pride mar...
Under the pouring rain and overshadowed by war, Dina Ivanova joined the few hundred who gathered in Kyiv on Sunday for the Ukraini...