Invasive species cost the world at least $423 billion every year as they drive plant and animal extinctions, threaten food security and exacerbate environmental catastrophes across the globe, a major new United Nations-backed report has found.
Hundreds of thousands of teachers are protesting in South Korea after the suspected suicide of a teacher that was widely blamed on the burden on educators in a country notorious for its high-pressure education system.
At the G20 summit in London in 2009, Britain's then-Prime Minister Gordon Brown heralded a "new world order" in which rich and developing nations would come together to tame the inequities and excesses of globalization. At the height of a global financial crisis, Brown declared a "new progressive era of international co-operation."
A private survey of business activity in China's services sector fell to its lowest level in eight months in August, as a flurry of economic stimulus measures seemed unable to reignite consumption demand.
Hundreds of trucks, RVs and other vehicles are journeying out of the Burning Man festival grounds after heavy rains trapped tens of thousands of people in the makeshift city and surrounded them with ankle-deep mud too thick to drive in.
China on Monday indicated that leader Xi Jinping would skip an important gathering of the world's 20 top economies for the first time with Premier Li Qiang traveling to the event in New Delhi this weekend in his place.
Qantas Airways said on Tuesday that long-serving CEO Alan Joyce would exit the company two months earlier than previously flagged as a reputational turbulence engulfs Australia's flagship carrier.
Mercedes-Benz wowed critics over the weekend with new "close-to-production" concept vehicles that outdo Tesla cars by going more than 466 miles on a single charge. That's compared with a range of less than 380 miles for any Tesla model.
Having carved out a niche in vaguely sleazy "Secrets of" docuseries beginning with Hugh Hefner and Playboy, A&E finds an ideal and perhaps inevitable playground for the franchise with "Secrets of Penthouse," which basically serves as a four-part biography of the magazine's founder, Bob Guccione. As trashy as one might expect, it's also a rise-and-fall story, told heavily through Guccione's children, about an empire built and lost.
A group of Mississippi hunters have broken the state record for the longest alligator ever captured in the state with a 14-foot-3-inch reptile weighing just over 800 pounds.
A North Carolina Supreme Court justice has filed a federal lawsuit against the state's judicial standards commission after the body opened an investigation into comments she made about the diversity of the state's judicial system, court documents show.
Jimmy Buffett, the tropical troubadour whose folksy tunes celebrated his laid-back lifestyle, inspired legions of devoted fans and spawned a lucrative business empire, has died, according to his official website and multiple media outlets.
President Joe Biden on Monday threw numerous verbal jabs at his predecessor in a Labor Day speech, aiming to use his administration's record as a way to undermine the inroads Donald Trump has made into a core part of Biden's political coalition.
Members of Spain's men's national soccer team issued a statement on Monday condemning the behavior of provisionally suspended federation president Luis Rubiales.
