A senior Ukrainian official called on Thursday for intensified efforts to uphold nuclear safety in view of Russia’s occupation of Europe’s largest nuclear power station and its repeated strikes on the energy grid.

WASHINGTON – International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told Reuters on Thursday that China is too large to continue relying on exports to drive its economy and faces dangerously slower growth unless it shifts toward a consumer-driven economic model.

A Vietnamese real estate tycoon has been convicted of fraudulently obtaining property worth billions of dollars and sentenced to life in prison in a case that has been a centerpiece of the government’s crackdown on corruption

The U_N_ human rights chief is warning that the world is at an especially dangerous moment in history, with disregard and disrespect for international law “is reaching a deafening crescendo.”

The world is set to make abundant energy by the second half of the decade as the production of batteries and solar panels surges but there’ll also be an excess of planet-warming fossil fuels, a report released Wednesday by the International Energy Agency said

The world’s second Sphere will be built in the capital of the United Arab Emirates after the opening of the first in Las Vegas

Inflation in the U.K. has fallen to its lowest level in more than three years, a drop that has cemented market expectations that the Bank of England will lower interest rates at its next policy meeting

SEOUL  – North Korea has designated South Korea a “hostile state”, its state media said on Thursday, confirming that its national assembly had amended the country’s constitution in line with their leader’s vow to drop unification as a national goal.

The United Nations’ food agency says months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades

Notre Dame is gearing up to reopen its doors in December as Paris is on the verge of a remarkable eco-revival