BUENOS AIRES (AP) — At a dance hall in the heart of Buenos Aires, 14 men in elegant dark suits sat at separate tables while across the room,…
Read more A dance hall in Buenos Aires guarantees tango sessions with professional partnersMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian authorities on Thursday demanded some of the world’s biggest social media platforms report how many accounts they have deactivated since a ban on…
Read more Australia demands social media giants report progress on account bans for children under 16ROME (AP) — Italy’s fashion house Armani said on Friday that it has appointed a new board whose role will be to guide the company at a time…
Read more Armani fashion group appoints new board to guide company after designer’s deathNORTH SEA, Denmark (AP) — Appearing first as a dot on the horizon, the remote Nini oil field on Europe’s rugged North Sea slowly comes into view from…
Read more Ambitious plan to store CO2 beneath the North Sea set to start operationsTOKYO (AP) — Sanae Takaichi made history by becoming Japan’s first female prime minister in October. She must now decide whether she’ll break another barrier: the taboo barring…
Read more Japan’s first female leader faces a taboo over entering the male-only sumo ringGENEVA (AP) — Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest announced plans to change the voting system of the popular musical extravaganza to ensure fairness, a move that follows…
Read more Eurovision plans changes to voting, security after allegations of Israeli government ‘interference’LONDON (AP) — Bridget Jones has joined Harry Potter, Mary Poppins and Paddington as permanent residents of London’s famed Leicester Square. A new bronze statue of the romantic…
Read more New statue of Bridget Jones joins other film icons in London’s Leicester SquareBANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares tumbled on Tuesday, with benchmarks in Tokyo and Seoul sinking more than 3%, after Nvidia and other artificial-intelligence -related shares pulled U.S. stocks…
Read more Asian shares sink, tracking a tech-led sell-off on Wall StreetBERLIN (AP) — Germany’s governing coalition agreed to subsidize energy prices for heavy industry over the next three years as it tries to breathe new life into a…
Read more German government to subsidize industry’s energy prices in bid to revitalize economyZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) — When darkness came, so did the smoke. Hamna Silima Nyange, like half of the 2 million people in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar, did…
Read more Zanzibar’s ‘solar mamas’ are trained as technicians to help light up communitiesMAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — India is repatriating on Thursday the first batch of hundreds of its nationals who last month fled to Thailand from Myanmar, where most…
Read more Indians who fled a Myanmar cyberscam center are being flown home from ThailandBUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — NATO member Romania signed an agreement Monday with German defense company Rheinmetall to build a gunpowder factory in central Romania, as Europe races to…
Read more NATO member Romania signs agreement with Germany’s Rheinmetall to build a gunpowder plantMELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia has added message board Reddit and livestreaming service Kick to its list of social media platforms that must ban children younger than 16…
Read more Australia adds Reddit and Kick to social media platforms banning children under 16HONG KONG (AP) — China’s economy expanded at the slowest annual pace in a year in July-September, growing 4.8%, weighed down by trade tensions with the United States…
Read more China’s economy slows to 4.8% annual growth in July-September, hit by tariffs and slack demandTOKYO (AP) — Japanese sushi legend Jiro Ono won three Michelin stars for more than a decade, the world’s oldest head chef to do so. He has served…
Read more Japan’s sushi legend Jiro Ono turns 100 and is not ready for retirementBERLIN (AP) — The German economy shrank by 0.3% in the second quarter compared with the previous three-month period, official data showed Friday, a significantly worse showing than…
Read more German economy shrank by 0.3% in second quarter in worse showing than initially thoughtBANGKOK (AP) — China released new interim measures Friday tightening controls on mining and processing of rare earths that are used in many high-tech products including electric vehicles,…
Read more What to know about China’s new regulations on rare earthsNAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At a recent opening of the newest Rastafari place of worship just outside Kenya’s capital, some of the faithful gathered to sing rhythmic songs,…
Read more In Kenya’s capital, a new Rastafari temple shows the movement’s enduranceBELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday praised the Serbian president for meeting her and other European Union leaders instead of attending…
Read more EU leader praises Serbia for its advances in EU membership bid despite growing Russian influenceBAGHDAD (AP) — A banned Kurdish militant group on Friday claimed responsibility for an attack on the headquarters of a key defense company in Ankara that killed at…
Read more Kurdish militants claim responsibility for deadly attack on Turkish defense firm