Beijing, which planned to build the biggest diplomatic compound in Britain with a new embassy located near the Tower of London, was met with opposition by a local council.
Jakarta, Indonesia, has been named the world's most polluted city by a Swiss air quality technology company. Motorized vehicles and the dry season play a role in the poor air quality.
Five United Nations employees who were abducted in Yemen 18 months ago have been released and are in a satisfactory state of health, announced the United Nations on Friday.
Severe inundations in China's northern province of Hebei, triggered by the residual impacts of Typhoon Doksuri earlier this month, have resulted in the loss of at least 29 lives.
Devastating floods triggered by intense monsoon rains in Burma, also known as Myanmar, have resulted in the loss of five lives and the displacement of approximately 60,000 individuals since mid-July.
The government of India proposed legislation to replace a British colonial-era sedition law that never ended when the country gained independence in 1947.
South Korea threw a massive concert for 40K Scouts after their global jamboree was disrupted by the weather. The concert was held at a soccer stadium and featured several performers.
A rescue team has been sent to assist a migrant boat off a Greek coast southwest of Peloponnese, near the site where a previous shipwreck caused dozens of migrant deaths in June.
An Austrian supermarket reopened following a three-day closure to clear the store due to an alleged sighting of a spider with a deadly bite that could also cause an hourslong erection.
Prosecutors in France have launched a manslaughter investigation Friday after 11 people died this week in the eastern part of the country after a fire erupted at a vacation home for adults with disabilities.
Aleksander Ceferin, the president of UEFA, is set to travel to Greece on Aug. 16, 2023, following a deadly riot that took place before a Champions League qualifier match.
Nermin Sulejmanovic, a man from Bosnia, allegedly killed his ex-wife live on Instagram. After he killed his wife he killed two people while on the run before taking his own life.
In July, an on-stage gay kiss shut down a music festival in Malaysia, where homosexuality is deemed a crime. The organizer is now seeking $2.7 million in losses from the band The 1975.
At least 39 migrants were removed from a barge in the United Kingdom after a dangerous bacteria was detected in the water system. The bacteria detected was legionella
United States, United Kingdom, and four other United Nations members called for the return of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two regions Russia took from Georgia in 2008.
A Chinese citizen working on industrial projects for the nation's military was arrested Friday under accusation of spying for the U.S. intelligence community.
Russia launched a space probe Friday bound for the moon, the country's first lunar mission in almost half a century and the first of its post-Soviet era.
A 550 lb WWII-era bomb was discovered by a construction worker in Lublin, Poland. Around 14,000 people were evacuated from the town so the bomb could be removed.