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.

Fiji has declared HIV a national crisis after new diagnoses climbed 27% last year, intensifying concern that an epidemic once concentrated among people who inject drugs is spreading more widely through the Pacific island nation.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on ​Wednesday she wanted to open the door to Canada becoming the EU's first "associate member" in a push to forge new links among allies in "an openly ‌hostile world".

The US has announced visa restrictions targeting people it accuses of discriminating against South Africa's white minority, in the latest escalation of tensions between the two countries.

Several explosions were heard on Iran's Qeshm island, Iranian official IRNA news agency reported, citing local sources as saying, adding the sounds appeared to have come from the direction of the sea.

The number of people aged 100 or more in Japan has exceeded 100,000 for the first time, according to the health ministry.

The global trading system is enduring its most sustained disruption in living memory amid challenges to trading rules that could batter living standards in a "geo-fragmented world", the WTO warned on Tuesday (Sep 15).

Delegates from the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and regional maritime information and operations centres visited the Information Fusion Centre Colombo to explore ways of strengthening maritime information sharing and regional cooperation.