1+ hour, 12+ min ago  (612+ words) A Hong Kong prosecutor on Monday accused two democracy activists on trial for organising Tiananmen crackdown vigils of trying to "incite others to commit unlawful acts, as closing arguments in their national security case began. Hong Kong, along with Macau,…...

7+ hour, 12+ min ago  (559+ words) Deliberations begin Monday in the blockbuster trial pitting Elon Musk against AI giant Open AI and its CEO Sam Altman, whom Musk accuses of abandoning the company's founding mission. The three-week trial in Oakland, outside San Francisco, has seen a…...

2+ hour ago  (727+ words) Finance chiefs from the G7 industrialised nations gather in Paris on Monday for two days of talks aimed at forging a united front as the Middle East war roils economic prospects worldwide. France, which currently chairs the rotating presidency of the…...

7+ hour, 45+ min ago  (549+ words) Iran put to death over 2, 150 people last year, a "staggering" increase that pushed recorded worldwide executions to their highest level since 1981, Amnesty International said Monday. Amnesty said it had confirmed the executions of at least2, 707 people globally in 2025. Of these cases,…...

2+ hour, 40+ min ago  (361+ words) The driver of a train that collided with a bus in Thailand's capital, killing eight people, has tested positive for drugs and was charged with reckless driving, police said Monday. The freight train crashed into the public bus on Saturday…...

2+ hour, 38+ min ago  (792+ words) One of the last outsiders'to make authorised visits to'India's only "uncontacted" tribe says it may be time to reconnect with the isolated people " in order to shield them from an encroaching world. Anthropologist Anstice Justin, 71, took part in the government's…...

7+ hour, 11+ min ago  (704+ words) President Donald Trump and top cabinet officials addressed thousands of Americans at a mass prayer rally in Washington on Sunday " an event critics saw as an overt display of Christian nationalism undermining the separation of church and state. The gathering…...

2+ hour, 41+ min ago  (571+ words) Acclaimed director Na Hong-jin has unveiled South Korea's highest budget film ever: a blood-splattered sci-fi thriller featuring killer extraterrestrials based on real-life couple Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander. "Hope" by Na, whose low-budget horror movie "The Wailing" "became a huge…...

7+ hour, 13+ min ago  (619+ words) The UN General Assembly on Wednesday will weigh a draft resolution underlining states" obligations to combat climate change, a long-awaited move that has been scaled back under pressure from major greenhouse gas emitters." In 2024, the small Pacific island nation of…...

7+ hour, 12+ min ago  (715+ words) A Wall Street banker's explosive sexual harassment lawsuit against a female executive has triggered a torrent of salacious falsehoods muddying the waters " with AI-created deepfakes and memes fueling the frenzy. The social media storm erupted soon after the suit " packed…...