Xbox is cutting hundreds of jobs and making sweeping changes to the production of its flagship Halo franchise, as its company-wide "reset" continues.

Some 175,000 people in Indonesia have suffered from respiratory illness since August, its health ministry said, as it continues to battle wildfires that have raged for weeks.

The US has criticised Australia's proposal to give users the ability to opt out of social media algorithms, saying it amounts to "censorship of protected speech".

The newly appointed Ambassador of China Wei Huaziang paid a courtesy call on the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, Air Vice Marshal Sampath Thuyacontha (Retd) at the Ministry of Defence today (22).

A large tree fell onto a moving three-wheeler near the main road in Ginigathhena yesterday (21), amid adverse weather conditions in the area.

China's Xi Jinping is expected to press US President Donald Trump to halt Taiwan arms sales under a 1982 ​joint statement during a visit to Washington this week, which he could do at the US National Archives, sources briefed on the matter said.

Water levels in several major rivers across the country have risen following continued rainfall, with minor flooding reported in some areas, according to the Hydrology and Disaster Management Division of the Irrigation Department.

Almost two million people are under evacuation orders in Japan as Typhoon Dujuan batters a number of the country's prefectures.

Pope Leo, who has warned of the risk that AI could lead the world down a path of unending war, on Monday urged the development of AI systems that do not foster divisions in society but strengthen peace initiatives.

Australia forecast on Monday that deaths would exceed births for the first time in the 2060s, a demographic shift ​with far-reaching implications for an economy grappling with an ageing population, declining ‌births and cuts to immigration.

India’s High Commissioner Santosh Jha today joined Minister of Transport, Highways and Urban Development Bimal Rathnayake in laying the foundation stone for the Moragahakanda Bridge in Matale, the first of 13 permanent bridges to be constructed across Sri Lanka under India’s grant assistance.

Italy is preparing to ban face coverings in schools and to cap the number of foreign students per class, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Sunday as she played up her right-wing credentials at a youth event organised by her party.

Indonesia welcomed its first aircraft carrier Friday, a former Italian warship that the government says will strengthen the archipelago nation’s maritime security and disaster response capabilities.

Warren Buffett stepped down on Friday as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, ending more than six decades building ​the conglomerate and making himself perhaps the world's most revered investor.

Singapore Airlines (SIA) was named the world’s best airline at the 2026 Skytrax World Airline Awards in London on Friday (Sep 18).

A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described ​in more than a century.

UN human rights experts say there are reasonable grounds to believe the US committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran that killed at least 177 civilians.

Buckingham Palace has issued a rare and unusually forceful denial after claims made by the brother of the late Princess Diana that King Charles III said his first wife would soon be forgotten in the days after her death.