ByteDance's Doubao chatbot attracted over 100 million daily active users during China's Lunar New Year holiday, winning an AI battle that saw the country's largest tech companies spend billions to ...

Iraq could nearly double its output from West Qurna 2 oilfield to 800,000 barrels per day as Chevron enters exclusive talks ...

Australian software firm WiseTech Global will axe about 2,000 jobs, nearly a third of its global workforce, in a two-year ...

Iran on Wednesday dismissed US claims about its missile program as "big lies", after President Donald Trump said Tehran was developing missiles that could strike the United States.  In his State of ...

The UN Security Council has announced sanctions on four commanders from the Rapid Support Forces for atrocities committed in ...

A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2025, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday, blaming Israel for two-thirds of the deaths. It was the second ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday he did not take his security for granted, after he was evacuated from his residence for several hours following a bomb threat sent to a ...

China and Germany want to deepen cooperation, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Chinese Premier Li Qiang said in Beijing on Wednesday, as Merz began a visit aimed at resetting ties amid a widening ...

Gold prices rose on Wednesday, lifted by a softer dollar and heightened safe-haven demand amid uncertainty over US tariffs ...

The Japanese government demanded the swift release of one of its citizens detained in Iran for over a month on Wednesday, ...

Saudi Arabia has ranked first in the Middle East for women’s empowerment and recorded the highest global improvement in supportive frameworks, according to the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law ...

The president of France's Palace of Versailles is expected to take over as head of the Louvre following the resignation of ...