German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CSU allies suffered historic losses in Bavaria state elections on Sunday, dealing a blow to her fragile three-party coalition government.

Japanese government plans to create a new residency status tentatively called “worker with particular skills” (see below), as part of a new system for accepting more foreign workers, it has been learned.

Worldwide Caesarean section use has nearly doubled in two decades and has reached "epidemic" proportions in some countries, doctors warned Friday, highlighting a huge gap in childbirth care between rich and poor mothers.

The United States said on Thursday that it will increasingly restrict civilian nuclear exports to China as President Donald Trump vowed a hard line on trade, bluntly warning not to think Americans are "stupid."

Russian investigators have launched a probe into why a Soyuz rocket failed shortly after blast-off, in a major setback for Russia's beleaguered space industry.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday there had been progress on Brexit ahead of a crunch summit but warned that the "devil is in the detail".

The world must drastically reduce its meat consumption in order to avoid devastating climate change, scientists said on Wednesday in the most thorough study so far on how what we eat affects the environment.

Hurricane Michael claimed its first life after roaring ashore in Florida on Wednesday, flooding homes and streets and toppling trees and power lines in the Gulf of Mexico beachfront area where it made landfall as a raging Category 4 storm.

Three people were killed and houses were damaged after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck off East Java province and Bali at around 2am on Thursday. Not much damage, however, was reported, the Indonesian government said.