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'It's personal': Fiji minister pushes better climate finance at pre-COP

Mertens beats Gauff to set up Swiatek clash at China Open

Russia glosses over dark Soviet past in reinvented museum

Benin full of pride at role in Messi's last dance

Indonesian court hears 'negligence' complaint against state over fires, haze

Germany factory production at highest level for 18 months

Rubio in Greece to urge against Western civilisation 'decline'

Thailand floods death toll rises to 60 since mid-September

Micron workers at Taiwan plant vote in favour of strike

In 'The Social Reckoning,' Jeremy Allen White takes on Facebook's 'frightening' ambition

Chip industry activists call for South Korea to recognise cancer cases

Indian central bank hikes rates for first time since 2023

Famine-scarred southern Madagascar braces for El Nino

US military on Okinawa face curfew, alcohol ban after murder case

Tuvalu govt adviser says Australia overstepped in pre-COP visit

A Tuvalu government adviser told AFP on Tuesday it felt like Australia had "taken over" the country's sovereignty during a visit by leaders to the Pacific atoll.

COP31 eyes modest steps as climate disasters multiply

Nations reeling from a year of climate devastation gather for COP31 next month but negotiations are not expected to deliver major progress in cutting the fossil fuels driving the crisis.

American Nobel laureate in medicine hopes to illuminate the brain

Nobel Prize-winning American researcher Karl Deisseroth is a psychiatrist, neuroscientist and bioengineer who has spent more than two decades illuminating the workings of the brain to unlock its mysteries.

Tens of thousands expected in Paris for high school protests

Tens of thousands of demonstrators are expected on the streets of Paris on Tuesday as France's powerful trade unions join high school students rallying for better conditions in a wave of protests marked by clashes with police.

AI borrowing binge rattles US markets

The world's richest companies can no longer rely on their massive cash piles alone to stay in the artificial intelligence race and have suddenly started borrowing massively in a shift that is sending repercussions across the world.

Grappling with 'homework scams,' US universities shun AI detectors

Locked in a cat-and-mouse struggle, biology professor Timothy Paustian devised novel ways to catch students turning in chatbot-generated assignments. But like many US universities, his institution is shunning AI detection software.

Young Canadians sue government over alleged climate failures

When a wildfire threatened her northern Canada home three years ago, Kira Young packed what she could and fled.

White Sox down Guardians to take 2-0 series lead

The Chicago White Sox defeated the Cleveland Guardians 4-3 to take a commanding 2-0 series lead in Major League Baseball's playoffs on Monday.

ComplianceQuest and Zolon PCS Selected to Modernize U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Enterprise Quality Management System

ComplianceQuest's AI-powered Connected Quality, Risk and Compliance (QRC) platform to be delivered across FDA under Zolon PCS's five-year Cloud Quality Management System BPA