Climate plans would allow up to 2.6C of global warming: UN
Country climate pledges leave the world on track to heat by as much as 2.6 degrees Celsius this century, according to a United Nations assessment Wednesday warning that emissions must fall 45 percent this decade to limit disastrous heating.
Read moreEx-convict Samsung heir takes top job after pardon
The once-disgraced heir to the sprawling Samsung empire was on Thursday named top executive of its most important business, two months after South Korea's president pardoned him for embezzlement and corruption convictions.
Read morePrince Harry to release memoir January 2023
Britain's Prince Harry will release his memoir in January next year, the book's publisher announced Thursday.
Read moreRussia's 'disposable soldiers' fighting for Bakhmut
With Russian artillery exploding around him, a Ukrainian soldier takes shelter in a tunnel and recounts the scene at the front line in Bakhmut, just a kilometre away.
Read moreKohli stars again as ominous India thrash Netherlands
Virat Kohli smashed a second successive half-century as India thrashed the Netherlands by 56 runs on Thursday to put themselves in a strong position at the Twenty20 World Cup.
Read moreIsrael, Lebanon set to sign 'historic' maritime border deal
Lebanon and Israel were Thursday expected to sign a US-brokered maritime border deal which would pave the way for lucrative offshore gas extraction by the neighbours that remain technically at war.
Read moreProfits crash at Volvo Cars on rising material costs
Swedish automaker Volvo Cars on Thursday rising raw material costs and inflation drove down profits in the third quarter.
Read moreTens of thousands attend funeral of killed Pakistani journalist
Tens of thousands of mourners attended the funeral Thursday of a Pakistani journalist shot dead by police in Kenya after he fled arrest in his home country.
Read more'No trust': Clandestine world of Ukraine prisoner swaps
The five captured Russian soldiers stumbled out of the Ukrainian van with their heads covered in black balaclavas.
Read moreBrewer AB InBev cheers best quarter of the year
The world's top brewer AB InBev said Thursday that it enjoyed its best quarter of the year as sales volumes rose, triggering a jump in profits.
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