UK finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng dashed home Friday from Washington for crisis talks with Prime Minister Liz Truss, with both their jobs on the line as their budget plans unravel.. But speaking in Washington on Thursday, the under-fire minister insisted that his job was safe.
At a bookshop in Kyiv, 33-year-old Yulia Sydorenko was dumping an entire collection of old books -- some gifts from childhood friends -- that have recently lost their appeal.. Sydorenko is among a steady stream of people hauling piles of books, sometimes by the suitcase or carload, to the Siayvo bookshop.
Xi Jinping's China has dragged millions out of extreme poverty, sent spacecraft to the Moon and committed itself to cutting greenhouse gas emissions.. A year after Xi became leader, 82 million Chinese people lived in extreme poverty, according to World Bank data.
Three decades after the fall of communism, the files held by Albania's infamous secret police on "enemies of the state" are slowly revealing their secrets.. The Sigurimi may be long gone, but it still poisons public life, with rumours of links to the hated secret police often used to blacken political rivals.
A shooting Thursday in North Carolina's capital Raleigh left at least five people dead, including an off-duty police officer, officials in the southeast US city said, adding that a suspect had been captured.. One of them was an off-duty Raleigh police officer."
Turkey's parliament on Thursday approved a tough pre-election law that could see reporters and social media users jailed for up to three years for spreading "fake news".. It also allows the courts to sentence accredited reporters and regular social media users who "openly spread misleading information" to between one and three years in jail.
North Korea on Friday test fired a short-range ballistic missile and flew nearly a dozen fighter jets close to the border with the South, Yonhap news agency reported – the latest in a series of military provocations that have sent tensions soaring on the Korean peninsula.. On Friday, the North's military said its latest actions came in response to a "provocative" South Korean artillery exercise near the border.
Neanderthals and humans lived alongside each other in France and northern Spain for up to 2,900 years, modelling research suggested Thursday, giving them plenty of time to potentially learn from or even breed with each other.. This means the two species lived alongside each other in the region for between 1,400 and 2,900 years, the study said.
Thousands of Afghan girls and women sat university entrance exams on Thursday under the guard of Taliban snipers, two weeks after a bomber killed dozens of students preparing for the tests.. Dressed in black hijabs and headscarves, the students were under the heavy guard of Taliban personnel as they queued for their entrance exams outside the prestigious Kabul University.
Chinese and Nigerien workers haul giant steel pipes over mounds of earth as heavily armed soldiers keep guard.. The British company Savannah Energy, a major player in the gas industry in neighbouring Nigeria, says it too has found deposits in the Agadem region, where the Chinese are already operating.
