Auto Shanghai to showcase electric competition at sector's new frontier
The world's biggest auto show opens Wednesday in Shanghai, with foreign carmakers raring to show they can compete against the ultra-competitive Chinese firms that dominate the sector's new electric frontier.
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Tentative tree planting 'decades overdue' in sweltering Athens
On a cloudy spring morning in one of Athens' most densely inhabited districts, thousands of fresh saplings dotting a small hilltop park mark a fledgling effort to tackle crippling heat that critics say is long overdue.
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Indonesia food plan risks 'world's largest' deforestation
An Indonesian soldier gives a thumbs up as he crosses a rice field on a combine harvester in remote Papua, where a government food security mega-project has raised fears of mass deforestation.
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Trump helps enflame anti-LGBTQ feeling from Hungary to Romania
Hungarian Nikoletta Bogadi's life was turned upside down when one of her four children came out as gay and another one as transgender.
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'Like orphans': Argentina mourns loss of papal son
Grief-stricken Argentines massed at Buenos Aires Cathedral and across the city Monday to collectively mourn the late pontiff, hero, defender of the marginalized, and one of their own: Pope Francis.
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Trump tariffs torch chances of meeting with China's Xi
With his storm of tariffs on Chinese goods, US President Donald Trump has torched ties with Beijing and likely wrecked any hope of meeting his counterpart Xi Jinping in the near term, analysts say.
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X rival Bluesky adds blue checks for trusted accounts
X rival Bluesky on Monday said it was adding blue checks to accounts that have been verified to confirm users are who they claim to be.
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China to launch new crewed mission into space this week
China is expected to launch a new crewed mission into space this week, as Beijing takes steady steps towards its goal of putting astronauts on the Moon.
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Morocco volunteers on Sahara clean-up mission
It may be the gateway to the vast Sahara desert, but that doesn't mean it's free of that modern scourge of the environment -- the rubbish humanity discards.
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Latin America fondly farewells its first pontiff
The passing of Latin America's first pope sparked an upwelling of sorrow but also gratitude Monday, with everyone from Lionel Messi to disparaged migrants marking the life of a pontiff who spoke to and for the region's faithful.
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