One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia's sparsely populated Far East early on Wednesday, causing ...

HSBC Holdings reported a 26 percent fall in first-half pretax profit on Wednesday, weighed down by a US$2.1 billion hit from ...

Chief Secretary Eric Chan on Wednesday said heavy rain and thunderstorms on Tuesday developed rapidly and it was difficult ...

A lawmaker said on Wednesday that subsidised homes to be put on the market from this year are more suitable for young ...

Chinese and US officials have agreed to seek an extension of their 90-day tariff truce, after the latest two-day round of ...

The man who shot four people dead with an assault-style rifle inside a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper was carrying a "suicide ...

Australia will use landmark social media laws to ban children under 16 from video-sharing platform YouTube, a top minister ...

A powerful magnitude 8.7 earthquake struck off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, generating a tsunami of ...

Defending champions China have been drawn in the same group as three-time winners North Korea for the 2026 Women's Asian Cup, ...

Gaza is slipping into famine, UN agencies warned on Tuesday, as the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said the ...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday said Britain was prepared to recognise a Palestinian state in September at the ...

Katie Ledecky won the 22nd world title of her legendary career to close in on Michael Phelps's record as fellow Olympic ...