NADI, Fiji/SYDNEY, Oct 7 - Countries must urgently scale up their commitments to keep temperature rises within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) to limit the impacts of extreme weather, a statement from a conference leading up to the UN's COP31 summit said.
A complainant told a well-known TV programme that patients were physically assaulted and held against their will.
China-based Shenzhen Qingcheng is the maker of the HeyCyan smart glasses app.
A sharp increase in human activity is affecting the way the Himalayan monal lives and communicates, studies show.
Relatives are finding themselves with no compensation and facing an administrative nightmare.
AI company Anthropic uncovered a China-based studio running more than 20 dating app variants for US users, where three in four profiles were AI and real people were hired mainly for video calls.
The fingerprint of climate change is detectable in global extreme rainfall trends, says a researcher.
Pyongyang accused Washington of fuelling tensions in the Taiwan Strait.
PM Wong has also invited him to attend the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix from Oct 9 to 11.
MOSCOW, Oct 6 - Emergency crews on Tuesday rescued the 23-member crew of a Liberian-flagged tanker, the Aframax Rio, which was set ablaze off Russia's Black Sea coast after coming under attack from an unmanned vessel, the Russian Transport Ministry said.
The 2026 Asian Games in Japan drew to a close on October 4 following two weeks of competition between 45 countries and territories across 43 sports. Despite the official slogan “Imagine One Asia,” fragmented regional politics came to the fore as the event unfolded. Just days
“Keep our city out of your reckless war talk,” said San Diego’s mayor, Todd Gloria, Monday night after President Donald Trump’s rambling speech at a rally in Nebraska included a particularly violent mention of the California city. Gloria was among several Democratic political
OTTAWA, Oct 6 - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to Ankara and Istanbul from October 21 to 23, his office said on Tuesday, in what will be the first dedicated bilateral visit to NATO ally Turkey by a Canadian leader.
NEW DELHI, Oct 6 - Senior officials in India and the United States have indicated long-running efforts to finalise a bilateral trade agreement have stalled, again.
OpenAI’s chief strategy officer said the firm had introduced new measures to prevent a repeat of the incident.
While the delivery of the two jets from the US was hailed by the ruling DPP as an important milestone for Taiwan’s defence, more headwinds are expected.
Indonesia is winning again, but questions remain over whether its football system has truly changed.
The idea of reciprocal visits was initially raised by China in meetings with US officials this year and visits to US Department of Energy national laboratories and equivalent Chinese facilities were discussed, CNN said, citing a source familiar with the matter.
“(It) may seem relatively straightforward, as it only has two stations. But a safe and reliable journey depends on careful engineering,” says the CEO of RTSO, the rail link operator.
Seoul said two soldiers were wounded by a mine planted by the North in the Demilitarised Zone.
SEOUL, Oct 6 - North Korea's Foreign Ministry rejected on Tuesday blame from South Korea for a border landmine blast, and threatened its neighbour with \"immediate and powerful counteraction\" for any violation of territory.
Oct 6 - The United States has discussed starting reciprocal visits to nuclear sites with China, and plans to continue pushing in meetings in the coming months, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Southeast Asia’s growth next year will be decided at meetings its finance ministers won’t attend. A few executives in California will soon settle next year’s spending on data centers. Their decisions will do more to shape growth in Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand and the
Opposition leaders have alleged that CEC Gyanesh Kumar manipulated voter rolls to favour Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party during elections.
CPEC 2.0 aims to move past the infrastructure-heavy first phase toward industry, agriculture, mining, technology, green development and business-to-business investment. That shift could deepen economic ties between Pakistan and China, but it also changes the nature of the
Oct 6 - Governments, courts and companies are considering restrictions and examining existing rules on smart glasses amid worries that the technology, brought to mainstream by Meta's Ray-Bans, could be used to photograph, film or audio-record confidential materials or people
MANILA, Oct 6 - The Philippines' National Security Council said it is looking into information presented during the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte alleging that a company linked to her husband had received remittances from China and Hong Kong, it said on
KATHMANDU, Oct 6 - Nepal plans to split the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) into two separate agencies to improve air safety, a minister said on Tuesday, in a country with a long history of crashes.
Data showed countrywide rice demand had been met with domestic production.
The region should diversify energy sources and supply routes, make greater use of domestic resources where viable and become more energy efficient, the International Energy Agency recommends in a new report.
The American withdrawal from Iraq is not an end but a strategic pivot, a calculated transition from direct occupation to remote containment. By pressuring Iraq to disarm its resistance groups, Washington aims to neutralize Iran’s forward defense line and clear the battlefield
Plaintiffs led by a former Indonesian deputy law minister filed a petition last month, arguing that Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka's overseas education credentials did not satisfy Indonesian eligibility requirements.
The 86-year-old Japanese TV personality is the widow of Indonesia’s first president Sukarno.
Fears that biopiracy might take a chunk out of the market have prompted the Philippines' government to announce a ban on raw ube exports.
The Chinese vessel Kexue was seen "intermittently extending wire-like objects into the sea", says Japan's coast guard.
Opposition parties began their march from parliament towards to the Election Commission of India (ECI) in New Delhi, but were stopped by heavy police deployments.
It’s getting better all the time (Better, better, better) It’s getting better all the time I admit it’s getting better –The Beatles In an X post, Marko Jukic, senior analyst at Bismarck Analysis, lamented: “Enshittification” is sort of a “safe horny” term for what is really
The measures are part of targeted, risk-based screening and tighter access controls at the airport.
Singapore accounted for nearly 80% of Thailand's egg exports in 2025, data shows.
FUNAFUTI, Oct 6 - Representatives of 30 nations watched on Tuesday as white sand dredged from an atoll lagoon was used to reclaim land from the ocean in a fight by the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu to keep its main island from being lost to rising waves.
Wisnu Hani Putranto is among 17 civil servants facing disciplinary action, following an investigation into luxury accommodation and facilities used by inmates at Cibinong prison in Bogor, West Java.
SYDNEY, Oct 6 - OpenAI and Anthropic told Australian parliament on Tuesday they would welcome laws requiring them to report data breaches carried out by their AI agents, acknowledging the decision to notify authorities was currently at their discretion.
Oct 6 - Coco Gauff said she had received an \"insane\" amount of racial abuse on social media after the two-times Grand Slam champion beat local teenager Sun Xinran at the China Open on Monday in a match where a replayed point sparked an online backlash.
A rogue OpenAI model had bypassed safeguards to gain access to a government health statistics website.