Japan’s finance sector is shaking up workplace gender equality, as top firms are axing clerical roles mainly held by women, ...

Thousands of people filed through the central aisle of St Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis on ...

China will allow certain products traded on the Shanghai Gold Exchange to be delivered overseas by establishing storage facilities in other countries – part of a broader effort to promote the yuan and ...

Tesla’s production of Optimus, a robot that promises to take over household chores, has been disrupted by China’s curbs on rare earth exports, introduced by Beijing earlier this month in an escalating ...

The recent revelation that a small but growing number of Indonesian students are studying in Israel – a country with which Indonesia has no formal diplomatic ties – has stirred domestic debate about ...

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Chinese state-backed energy firms and privately controlled gas distributors may have to renegotiate long-term liquefied natural gas (LNG) procurement contracts they signed with US providers if the ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Tuesday he would cut back “significantly” the time he devotes to the Trump administration from next month and spend more time running the electric-vehicle maker. Tesla ...

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has no plans to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, just days after his statement that he would like to terminate the head of the US central bank caused ...

Israeli police on Tuesday scoured the Mediterranean coast for a swimmer they fear may have been attacked by a shark in an area that has long seen close encounters between marine predators and ...

A growing number of Southeast Asian immigrants in Los Angeles and Orange counties whose deportation orders have been on indefinite hold for years are being detained, and in some cases, deported after ...

The government will be providing free Covid-19 tests to all Hongkongers. City leader Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said at a press conference on Friday that the programme will be ready in around two ...