China's Hinan Island province is set to become the country's first to ban sales of gasoline-powered vehicles, releasing a plan this week to ban the cars by 20230.
Prime Minister of Japan Fumio Kishida said Wednesday that he is interested in looking into new types of nuclear reactors for his country to develop amid rising energy costs.
A vaccination campaign in the Congolose city of Beni will begin on Thursday after a new case of Ebola was reported this week, which was genetically linked to the 2018-2019 outbreak.
Iran said on Wednesday that it will only permit nuclear inspections agreed to in the 2015 deal scrapped by the Trump administration and "not one word more."
The body of an elephant handler in Thailand was found in a pool of blood after an elephant stabbed him with its tusks and ripped the man in half, according to a report.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro celebrated his country's 200th Independence Day by bringing the embalmed heart of the nation's founder from its home in a Portuguese church.
An image of two topless women kissing during one of Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin's private parties has leaked, and Marin called the image "not appropriate."
Finnish police said Wednesday that they would not take any action regarding Prime Minister Sanna Marin's partying videos despite receiving three complaints.
In an effort to "protect and defend U.S. personnel," the U.S. military said it carried out airstrikes in Syria targeting areas used by militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
A Moscow research center has found that over half of Russians don't see value in the Western world. This comes after 20-plus years of Kremlin propaganda.
This summer has been tough on countries around the world, with droughts and heatwaves causing major issues. Weather has since "whiplashed" and flipped to the opposite extreme: floods.
Archaeologists in Israel recently uncovered a 1,200-year-old estate from the early Islamic era during an excavation in the southern Bedouin town of Rahat.
A whale stuck in shark nets off the Gold Coast of Australia was freed Monday by rescuers. Whale entanglement in fishing gear is a problem around the world.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg pledged to continue supporting Ukraine in its "grinding war of attrition" against Russia, saying winter "will be hard."
The Italian Coast Guard captured the moment a 130-foot superyacht sank into the Mediterranean Sea stern-first, after My Saga's captain issued a distress call.
Armed motorcyclists ambushed and murdered Mexican journalists Fredid Roman on his way home from work on Monday. It is unclear whether the attack was connected to his job.
A video posted on TikTok by a former U.S. Army Green Beret purportedly shows hundreds of mines that were removed from a field in Zaporizhzhia, in southeastern Ukraine.