School roof collapse kills teacher, 27 children in NW Pakistan
Twenty-seven pupils and a teacher were killed on Thursday after a roof collapsed at a school in the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar, a hospital official said.
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Pope has 'good night' in hospital: Vatican
Pope Leo XIV had a "good night" in hospital and has eaten breakfast as he recovers from lung cancer surgery, the Vatican said Thursday.
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Haze turns Indonesia skies orange, shuts schools in East Timor
Thick haze turned the skies in Indonesia's Palangkaraya apocalyptic shades of yellow and orange on Thursday, reducing visibility to a few dozen metres as wildfires cause a regional air pollution crisis.
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China's economy seen missing target as global shocks bite: AFP poll
China's economy likely grew at a slower pace than the government's target in the third quarter, an AFP survey of analysts shows, as energy, geopolitical and debt crises stoke fears of a global downturn.
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Costa Rica opens jail inspired by El Salvador mega-prison
Costa Rica opened a high-security jail on Wednesday inspired by a mega-prison in El Salvador that has become a symbol of the country's war on gangs, widely criticized by human rights groups.
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School headscarf ban meets resistance in Austria
As the new school year gets under way in Austria, a headscarf ban for girls under 14 has sparked protests on the streets and in the classroom, with dozens of pupils refusing to comply.
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Same-sex couple takes fight for equality to Slovakian court
Slovakian lawyers Ivan Novotny and Metod Spacek got married in Austria in 2020, but their home country refused to register their marriage -- a decision they are now challenging in court.
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World's top cocoa producer aims for a climate-tough bean
Kofi Alexis Amani has watched the trees on his cocoa plantation wilt and sometimes wither as rains became unpredictable and less abundant in Ivory Coast over the past several decades.
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'High hopes' as Indonesian women get a football league, again
Seven years after Covid-19 put the brakes on Indonesia's new women's football league, Zahra Naqiyyah will finally return to the field with "high hopes" for the women's game in the country.
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Why is Shell facing lawsuits over climate disasters in Brazil and the Philippines?
A typhoon in the Philippines and flooding in Brazil. Twice in less than a year, British energy giant Shell has been the target of a new type of lawsuit seeking to make polluters pay part of the cost of specific extreme weather events.
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