U.S. and Russia spar over ‘unsafe’ spy plane intercept near Syria
A Russian fighter jet made a dangerous high-speed pass that put a U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft at risk during an intercept over the Mediterranean Sea...
#KuToo no more! Japanese women take stand against high heels
A social media campaign against dress codes and expectations that women wear high heels at work has gone viral in Japan, with thousands joining the...
Australian media decry raids on national broadcaster ABC and News Corp
Australian police raided the offices of the national broadcaster on Wednesday over allegations it had published classified material, the second raid on a media outlet...
Global stocks gain in Fed’s cheery slipstream, dollar subdued
Global stocks gained for a third straight day on Wednesday, bolstered by investors’ growing hopes that the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates this year...
Militants kill eight security personnel in Sinai: state media
Militants attacked a checkpoint and killed eight security personnel on Wednesday in north Sinai where Egyptian forces have long been battling Islamists, state media said....
India says mission to recover climbers’ bodies likely to take 10 days
Indian authorities will likely take around ten days to recover the bodies of five missing climbers believed to have been killed in an avalanche high...
Czech brewers put modern pubs on tap to court hipster crowd
For generations, Czechs have consumed world-beating volumes of beer in the smoky, wood-panelled rooms of their local pubs, all but indistinguishable from each other bar...
Chinese importers to apply for tariff waivers on U.S. goods
Chinese importers are preparing applications for waivers on import tariffs levied on more than 700 U.S. goods in the Sino-U.S trade war, after the finance...
EU understands it has to move on some Brexit issues: UK defense minister
The European Union understands that it has to “move on some things” regarding Brexit, Britain’s defense minister, who has neither confirmed nor ruled herself out...
Former UEFA President Lennart Johansson dies aged 89
Lennart Johansson, the Swedish former president of Europe’s football association UEFA, has died after a short illness aged 89, Sweden’s Football Association said on Wednesday....