Stock markets in the U.S. fell more than three percent as re-assurances of a truce between the U.S. and China did not give industries much peace.
Norwegian footballer Ada Hegerberg won the inaugural Ballon d’Or for women at this year’s annual football award given by France Football. But the award ceremony’s celebration and acknowledgment of women in football was marred by of all things – a sexist incident.
As state leaders, diplomats and scientists meet at the UN climate conference in Poland, natural historian Sir David Attenborough has spoken from the ‘people’s chair’ of the need of urgent and concrete action to mitigate global warming.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte seems to beat US President Donald Trump in being politically incorrect. In his latest gaffe, Duterte claimed that “he smoked marijuana to keep awake during conferences.”
The gulf nation of Qatar has announced that it is withdrawing its membership from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The withdrawal will be effective come January 2019.
A day after hundreds of thousands of protesters laid siege to central Paris, President Emmanuel Macron has asked his prime minister to initiate talks with the protesting ‘gilets jaunes’ or ‘yellow jackets’.
As the Taliban is resurgent across Afghanistan, the U.S. has dealt a blow to the outfit by killing one its senior most commander in charge of the province of Helmand.
Poland is hosting the biggest climate change event in years, with scientists, diplomats and leaders congregating on its city of Katowice for UN’s COP24.
California-based cybersecurity firm’s CEO Nikesh Arora was in a car accident owing to the wintry weather conditions in the U.S. However, Arora tweeted out that he survived the accident thanks to his Tesla car, a Model X.
Owing to G20's economic power, much of the issues facing the world are on the agenda when the grouping meets for its annual summit each year.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plane was forced to make an unscheduled landing shortly after take-off in Cologne, Germany due to a technical glitch while she was on her way to the G20 summit in Argentina.
Amid the high tensions between Ukraine and Russia, Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko wants NATO to deploy naval ships to the Sea of Azov to “provide security”.
US President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to a Congressional committee about a Trump property deal in Moscow in 2016.
Russia's Interfax news agency said, citing the Russian defense ministry that Moscow would be deploying its S-400 missile systems in the Crimean peninsula and expected them to be operational within a month.
Not everyone in the US government agrees with their President and many from his own party are working to censure Saudi Arabia – over journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and the Yemen war.
Sri Lanka's Chief of Defence Staff Ravindra Wijeguneratne was remanded to custody for seven days by a court in Colombo over the cover-up of the murder of 11 men by another naval officer during 2008-09 war.
In a warning bell report, Bank of England has warned in the event of the UK leaves the EU without a deal, it would create a tsunami of economic woes for the country.
Ukraine's President in a statement said he's concerned about a possible full-scale war breaking out with Russia after the serious maritime clash between the two countries over the weekend.
A massive explosion near a chemical plant in Zhangjiakou in China has claimed the lives of at least 22 people with another 20 injured.
In what is a massive slap to US President Donald Trump’s claim of bringing back jobs to America’s rust belt, General Motors has announced massive job cuts as it will shut down five major car manufacturing plants across North America.
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