Death row inmate Nazeri Lajim beams at the camera, fingers raised in a "V" sign, wearing a shirt emblazoned with large motifs and showing no signs of his impending hanging.
Ukraine is racing against time to prepare its residents for a possible "nuclear explosion" at the heavily-contested Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Asian markets sank Wednesday as another round of data showed China's economy continued to struggle in June, with little hope that the country's leaders can unveil the blockbuster stimulus needed to kickstart growth.
A former British Army officer believes China would turn its back on Russian President Vladimir Putin if he used tactical nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war.
Once, the way to get ahead among India's Konyak warriors was by chopping off an enemy's skull.
The woman left behind a suicide note in which she reportedly wrote that she could not go on without her husband.
Boris Johnson will not face another formal probe into allegations that he broke Covid lockdown laws at the UK prime minister's country residence, police announced on Tuesday.
South Sudan's leader Salva Kiir on Tuesday pledged that delayed elections set for next year would go ahead as planned and that he would run for president.
Inside Kyiv's St Michael's cathedral, mourners gathered Tuesday to bid farewell to Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina, who died of her wounds suffered in a Russian missile strike on a restaurant.
While the 2024 Olympics will stage events in the Seine river from the ornate Alexandre III bridge, a proud declaration of the waterway's environmental renewal, many swimmers in the capital are already defying decades-long bans to take the plunge.
Carlos Alcaraz prepared to launch his Wimbledon campaign on Tuesday as two-time champion Andy Murray aimed to roll back the years on a damp day at the All England Club.
Turkey warned Tuesday it will not be pressured into backing Sweden's bid to join NATO and said it was still assessing whether the Nordic country's entry would benefit or hurt bloc.
"Given China's outsized role in adding to carbon pollution, it needs to move away from coal power-- fast. Yet when clean power runs short, including when climate-fueled drought shuts hydropower plants down, China falls back on coal. To succeed at emissions reduction, China needs to break that cycle," climate risk expert Alice C. Hill told IBT.
South Korean authorities uncovered cases of infanticide and child abandonment while checking the well-being of more than 2,000 undocumented babies.
A new state-produced propaganda vlog revealed that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made secret trips to an amusement park.
Residents in an isolated coastal village in Indonesia rely on used tires and sandbags to protect their community from rising sea levels and climate change.
The crime was revealed after the local government found out that the couple did not register their son's birth and later reported his disappearance.
NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg had already lined up a job as head of the central bank in his native Norway when Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushed allies last year to ask him to stay on.
NATO's members on Tuesday extended the tenure of alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg for one year, after struggling to find a replacement in the shadow of Russia's war in Ukraine.
Afghanistan's Taliban authorities have ordered beauty parlours across the country to shut within a month, the vice ministry confirmed Tuesday, the latest curb to further squeeze women out of public life.
The new claims were included in a document submitted by law firm Leigh Day to a new public inquiry. Lawyers also alleged that special forces commanders in the U.K. destroyed computer data that could have been evidence of the killings of unarmed Afghan civilians.
A teen is apprehended after faking a family emergency to secure a taxi ride from Incheon to Cheonan, South Korea.
Cybersecurity researchers have sounded alarm over the new variant of malware developed by North Korean hackers which targets Apple's MacOS system.
Hong Kong's leader has called on eight overseas activists to turn themselves in a day after police put out bounties on them for violating the city's national security law.
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi arrived in Japan on Tuesday to present a review of Tokyo's plans to release treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.
A 70-year-old Russian political analyst continued with his rhetoric justifying Moscow's need to escalate its nuclear threats against the West.
The NATO alliance has sent thousands of weapons and equipment to Ukraine to use in its war against invading Russian forces.
The British and Australian prime ministers have traded verbal bouncers after a controversial Test match between the two sides that has rocked the usually genteel world of cricket.
Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili appeared on television for the first time in months on Monday, looking frail and emaciated, fuelling concerns over the detained politician's treatment.
France has made "undeniable efforts" to roll out a feminist foreign policy with women holding top ministerial jobs, but is still falling short in defending women's rights around the world, according to a new report.
