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If you drive an older, polluting car anywhere in London, starting Tuesday you'll have to pay a princely charge of £12.50 ($15.70) per day.

US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Monday she and her counterpart, Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao, had agreed on steps to improve communication between the world's top two economies on business and trade following four hours of "very open" discussions in Beijing.

Archaeologists in northern Peru have unearthed a 3,000-year-old tomb which they believe might have honored an elite religious leader in the Andean country some three millennia ago.

Nordstrom closed the doors of its five-story department store in San Francisco on Sunday, ending a 35-year run as the city suffers a retail exodus.

Florence Welch, the lead singer of Florence and the Machine, has revealed she underwent life-saving emergency surgery, forcing her to cancel live shows.

Roberto Mancini was announced as the new head coach of Saudi Arabia's men's team on Sunday, just two weeks after resigning as manager of his native Italy.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and top Republicans have begun to strategize about how to move forward with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden this fall -- the latest sign that the House GOP is seriously laying the groundwork to initiate rare proceedings against the current president.

Welcome to jobs week. Investors are eagerly anticipating a slew of news about the health of the US labor market over the next couple of days.

As the checkered flag waved at the Dutch Grand Prix on Sunday to greet home favorite Max Verstappen over the finish line, the Formula One driver took another step towards history.

Federal district Judge Steve Jones of the Northern District of Georgia will hear requests from three of the 19 defendants hoping to move their Georgia election subversion cases out of state court.

The New York Times found instant success with Wordle. Now it might have a new hit on its hands.

The warnings were there. Speculation about Yevgeny Prigozhin's eventual fate began soon after his march on Russia two months ago. He now joins a growing list of Russians who have fallen from the president's good graces and died in mysterious circumstances.

The founder of the Wagner private mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died when his plane fell out of the sky, was once close enough to Vladimir Putin to be called his "personal chef" before he led a mutiny that posed perhaps the greatest challenge yet to the Russian president's long rule.

China has made a series of moves to restore investor confidence in the world's second largest economy, including cutting a tax on stock trading for the first time since 2008.

"The government will provide whatever the army asks for," Russia's President Vladimir Putin told a gathering of military top brass in December. Eighteen months into his war in Ukraine, he seems to be keeping that promise. But he's doing it increasingly at the expense of economic stability at home.

The stage is set for another epic showdown between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz at the US Open which starts on Monday.

A Chinese-Australian writer who has been detained in China for more than four years said he fears he could die in jail, after a large cyst was found on his kidney.

Evergrande Group, the world's most indebted real estate developer, has reported a significant narrowing in its net losses for the first half of the year, thanks to a rise in revenue because of a "short boom" earlier this year.

In the busy streets of Hong Kong's Central district the lunchtime queues snake around the swanky Japanese restaurants where high-end sushi can sell at $150 a pop just for a tasting menu.

Afghanistan's Band-e-Amir National Park was known for having employed the country's first-ever female park rangers. Now, women won't even be allowed to visit, let alone work there, as the Taliban deepens its repressive rule over the country.