Beijing claims a low Covid death rate, but its decision to withhold cremation data from last year's surge means we may never know the true toll.
Psychiatrists will assess more than 60 of the group's surviving followers who continue to refuse meals even as its leader and deputy accept food.
Rights campaigners say Greek authorities neglected those on board as nine crew members are arrested for people smuggling
Kyiv has made modest gains against Russia in southern regions, but a formidable task lies ahead. Here's what we know so far.
Britain's Covid inquiry was supposed to give closure to people who lost loved ones in the pandemic. It's instead become a political farce.
International convention sparked by 1912 sinking protects people at sea to this day. Will the Titan disaster spur new regulations?
Russia says it's dropping charges against the Wagner military group over an armed insurrection that threatened Putin's grip on power.
Wokers at about 150 US locations are going on strike over a dispute about the coffee chain's policy on Pride decorations.
Survivors of the Greek migrant disaster in which hundreds are feared dead recall chaotic senes, and say coast guard was towing boat when it capsized.
Russion President Putin to address the nation "soon," Kremlin syas, after Wagner mercenary group claims to have taken military contraol of Russian city.
Russian President Putin warns those on "path of treason" or armed rebellion will be "punished" as Wagner insurrection plunges country into crisis.
Analysis: The Ukraine war has transformed NATO and provided a springboard for the alliance to show it can act effectively and with unity.
UK government's plan to deport some asylum-seeker to Rwanda ruled unlawful by Court of Appeal.
150 people arrested as protests sweep the country for a second night over the fatal police shooting of a teenager in Paris.
The singer is recovering from a "serious bacterial infection" that landed her in the ICU for several days.
A Thai court acquitted five activists of blocking the Queen's motorcade, a key moment in a nation where criticizing the monarchy is a criminal offense.
Clashes break out in a suburb of the French capital after a police officer shoots a 17-year-old during a traffic stop.
South Koreans are now officially one or two years younger after country scraps 'Korean age'
South Korea says it will cut the mind-benders in an 8-hour college entrance exam - a test so hear it's blamed for putting people off having children
The climate activist said "environmental destruction is a form of warfare" following the devastation wrought by the fall of Ukraine's Kakhovka dam
Roma victims of a Nazi-era concentration camp have had their memories desecrated by a pig farm built on the grounds. It's finally being demolished
Israel launched the biggest incursion into the West Bank in 20 years, deploying ground and air forces on the Palestinian city of Jenin