Meet the beetle named after Greta Thunberg
Climate change activist Greta Thunberg may have been tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize, but she has now been afforded perhaps the ultimate honour: having...
Police say all 39 people found dead in UK truck were Vietnamese
The 39 people who were found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck after being smuggled into Britain last month all came from Vietnam...
Vietnam police confirm all 39 UK truck death victims were Vietnamese
Vietnamese police said on Thursday all 39 people found dead in the back of a truck near London last month were Vietnamese....
Better in a safe than sorry: Amid unrest, some Lebanese stash cash at home
Having lived next door to Iraq during the U.S.-led invasion to oust Saddam Hussein in 2003, Diana is no stranger to geopolitical unrest. Back then...
Photographer collects fingernails to replace rhino horns in medicine
Swedish wildlife photographer Bjorn Persson is collecting human fingernails to replace rhino horns in Chinese and Vietnamese medicine in the hope of bringing to an...
Austria’s OMV sees potential in underground carbon storage to fight global warming
Austrian oil and gas group OMV aims to reduce its own carbon emissions by trapping CO2 underground and could offer the same storage solution to...
China and the U.S. team up to jail fentanyl smugglers
A Chinese court has jailed nine people on charges of smuggling the highly-addictive opioid fentanyl to the United States, in the first such case that...
In major reshuffle, Jordan PM moves to push IMF-led economic reforms
Jordan’s Prime Minister reshuffled a large part of his cabinet on Thursday, appointing a former palace advisor as finance minister as he pursues efforts to...
China to study ‘regional’ approach to animal disease outbreaks
China will trial in France a new approach to responding to animal disease outbreaks that is less disruptive to trade, and which could be extended...
Malaysia frees detained Cambodian opposition activists
Malaysia on Thursday night released three Cambodian opposition activists it detained this week at the request of Cambodian authorities, a rights group official told Reuters....