While the United Nations urged countries to use the world's wealth to fight climate change, a Chinese senior official said Beijing has set a successful example in using fiscal investment to leverage huge amounts of capital to meet the targets of cutting greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants.
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump directed NASA on Monday to send US astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972, in order to prepare for future trips to Mars.
DRIFFIELD, England - At a brewery nestled in rolling farmland in northern England, the process of making beer begins with dropping dozens of unwanted loaf ends, thrown away by a sandwich factory, into a large stainless steel tank.
SYDNEY - The Tasmanian tiger was doomed long before humans began hunting the enigmatic marsupial, scientists said on Tuesday, with DNA sequencing showing it was in poor genetic health for thousands of years before its extinction.
TOKYO - Clad in black like an ancient-day ronin or samurai, a man scales walls and squeezes into tight spaces in the dark - but in the name of crime.
KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian people's love for online shopping has led to an increase in transactions on mobile platforms.
SINGAPORE - Kevin Martens Wong reels off sentences in Kristang, which is among several minority languages in Singapore enjoying a new lease of life after a decadeslong drive to encourage the use of English and Mandarin.
NEW DELHI - Indian authorities have ordered a probe into the alleged molestation of a teenage Bollywood actress on board a flight from Delhi to Mumbai.
LONDON - Six months after a fire ripped through the Grenfell Tower apartment block in London, survivors are traumatized and bitter, saying they have been abandoned to their fate.
LONDON - The heaviest snowfall in four years in the United Kingdom caused travel mayhem on Sunday, while more than 300 flights were canceled at Germany's busiest airport and a ferry ran aground in the French port of Calais.
SEOUL - The Republic of Korea, the United States and Japan kicked off a two-day maritime exercise to track ballistic missiles possibly from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in waters near the Korean Peninsula and Japan, local media reported on Monday, citing Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff.
SYDNEY - Dozens of loud speakers are being installed across Melbourne from Monday as part of a major security upgrade to warn people of terror attacks.
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