Month: December 2024

Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, from the governing South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo), looks set to become Namibia's first female president with more than 90% of the votes from last week's disputed…

Police stand guard in front of the main gate of the National Assembly in Seoul on December 3, 2024, after South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law.…

A man wanted over one of Australia's most infamous cold cases, dubbed the Easey Street murders, has arrived in Melbourne after being extradited from Italy.Suzanne Armstrong, 27, and Susan Bartlett,…

Amin Nasser, CEO of Saudi Aramco, speaks at the 2024 CERAWeek by S&P Global conference in Houston, Texas, on March 18, 2024.F. Carter Smith | Bloomberg | Getty Images"Realistic" green…

EPAA deal that could see the Parthenon Sculptures returned to Greece is "close", a former adviser to the country's government has told the BBC.Prof Irene Stamatoudi said it "seems negotiations…

UKRAINE - 2022/01/07: In this photo illustration a Microsoft Azure logo seen displayed on a smartphone. (Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty…

Karol Kalisky, Arolla Film, SlovakiaEuropean conservation officials have adopted EU proposals to end of protections for wolves in EuropeThe first snow of winter has fallen in Sanmartin, a village in…

China's race to develop smarter-than-human artificial intelligence may put it ahead of the U.S., but such ground-breaking technology could also risk lessening the stronghold that the ruling Communist Party has…

Getty ImagesTruong My Lan, pictured in court on Tuesday, could still avoid executionVietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan has lost her appeal against her death sentence for masterminding the world’s…

Alex Wong | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesU.S. President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to block Japanese company Nippon Steel's planned purchase of U.S. Steel."I am totally against the once…