California fire death toll rises to 23
The death toll from destructive fires hitting California rose to 23 Saturday as rescue workers recovered more bodies of people killed by the late-season...
Japan TV station cancels K-Pop stars BTS over nuke bomb shirt
A Japanese television station has cancelled a performance by the wildly popular Korean boyband BTS, after controversy erupted over a shirt worn by a...
‘Remarkable’ decline in fertility rates
There has been a remarkable global decline in the number of children women are having, say researchers.
Their report found fertility rate falls meant nearly...
Buddha and bronzer: The Japanese monk who loves make-up
As make-up artist Kodo Nishimura sashays into a room in Tokyo balanced on pin-thin heels, he could hardly look less like a practising Buddhist...
NASA’s Dawn asteroid mission ends as fuel runs out
Dawn, a NASA spacecraft that launched 11 years ago and studied two of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, has ended its mission...
British tourists warned over political situation in SL
The United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office has updated its advice to travellers to Sri Lanka, warning them to “exercise vigilance and avoid all...
Google staff walk out over women’s treatment
Staff at Google offices around the world are staging an unprecedented series of walkouts in protest at the company's treatment of women.
The employees are...
Key stages on the 2019 Giro d’Italia
Seven summit finishes and three individual time trials, for defending champion Chris Froome the 2019 Giro d'Italia offers a "balanced" but testing challenge for...
Trump hits election trail threatening troop surge on Mexico border
President Donald Trump further hardened his pre-election anti-immigration rhetoric in a Florida campaign stop on Wednesday, after threatening to deploy as many as 15,000...
Palau plans sunscreen ban to save coral
The tiny Pacific island nation of Palau will ban "reef-toxic" sunscreens from 2020 in what it claims is a world-first initiative to stop chemical...
