Samsung chairman jailed for union sabotage
The chairman of Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest smartphone and chip maker, has been jailed for sabotaging union activities, prompting a rare apology on...
Snow business: The icemen behind China’s frozen festival
Liu Yantao and six co-workers start toiling on a frozen river in northeast China before dawn, using hand tools and machines to carve large...
German crossbow YouTuber fights video giant for rights
At his out-of-the-way house in the forested German hills, Joerg Sprave spends his time building mutant crossbows and powerful slingshots - and hounding one...
Australia has its hottest day on record, more to come
Australia this week experienced its hottest day on record and the heatwave is expected to worsen, exacerbating an already unprecedented bushfire season, authorities said...
Facebook says it can locate users who opt out of tracking
Facebook can determine where users are even if they opt out of having their whereabouts tracked, the company revealed in a letter sent to...
Japan journalist wins high-profile #MeToo case
A Tokyo court Wednesday awarded 3.3 million yen ($30,000) in damages to journalist Shiori Ito, who accused a former TV reporter of rape in...
Impeachment vote set for Wednesday as Trump rages
An enraged US President Donald Trump said he was being subjected to an "attempted coup" and a witch trial as Democrats set a historic...
India Citizenship Amendment Act: Fresh violence erupts in Delhi
A massive protest has broken out in India's capital Delhi, as anger at a citizenship law spreads across the country.
Images from the city's Seelampur...
Finger-wagging Muslim women become Indian protest symbols
A group of Muslim women who formed a barricade around a male student being attacked by baton-swinging police have become symbols of the protests...
Trump, Syria and Facebook: the volatile cocktail of the 2010s
The Arab Spring gave way to bloodletting in Syria, a refugee exodus and surging jihadist violence. Obama gave way to Trump. The United Kingdom...

















