The approval rating for President Moon Jae-in declined for the second straight week last week, a poll showed on Monday, mainly due to South Korea's top diplomat's controversial remarks on sanctions relief for the North.
Securing a Brexit deal will be vital for European security, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Monday, ahead of a week of crucial talks.
Three people were killed and several injured when a light aircraft crashed into a group of onlookers in Germany on Sunday, said media reports citing police.
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.
From family and friends to strangers on the subway and public figures on 24-hour news cycles, humans recognise an astonishing 5,000 faces, scientists said on Wednesday in the first study of its kind.
EU ministers battled on Tuesday over the extent of emission cuts to be imposed on carmakers, in the wake of a warning by UN experts on the dangers of global warming.
Nikki Haley abruptly resigned on Tuesday as the US ambassador to the United Nations, in the latest departure from President Donald Trump's often shifting national security team.
An all out trade war would slow the growth of the global economy, but not stop its expansion, with the United States and China also escaping a recession, according to forecasts published on Tuesday by the International Monetary Fund.
Residents of northwest Florida had until early Tuesday to leave their homes ahead of Hurricane Michael, forecast to crash ashore midweek as a major Category 3 storm with "life-threatening" flash flooding possible.
Google announced on Monday it is shutting down the consumer version of its online social network after fixing a bug exposing private data in as many as 500,000 accounts.
Australia is drawing up plans to require migrants to temporarily settle in regional and rural areas to ease congestion in major cities, the government announced on Tuesday.
A strong aftershock sent panicked residents fleeing into the streets on Sunday -- hours after a 5.9-magnitude earthquake killed at least 12 people along Haiti's northwest coast.
