China has protested against Malaysia filing a submissihere with the United Nations last week seeking to establish the limits of Malaysia’s continental shelf in the northern part of the disputed South China Sea, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday. Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of ...

First known interstellar comet also turns out to be one of the fastest known   Nasa has released never-before-seen images of 2I/Borisov, only the second known object to have visited our solar system from elsewhere. The image shows the comet in front of a distant spiral galaxy, which can be made ...

Company hails start of the ‘electric aviation age’ after 15-minute test flight in Vancouver   The world’s first fully electric commercial aircraft has taken its inaugural test flight, taking off from the Canadian city of Vancouver and flying for 15 minutes. “This proves that commercial aviation in all-electric form can ...

Hong Kong’s role in global finance is intact, with little evidence to suggest recent protests and social unrest in the city have adversely impacted that role, global credit rating agency Fitch Ratings said on Thursday. However, the rating agency added that the prolonged protests are undermining perceptions that Hong Kong ...

Voters go to the polls on Thursday in an election that will pave the way for Brexit under Prime Minister Boris Johnson or propel Britain toward another referendum that could ultimately reverse the decision to leave the European Union. After failing to deliver Brexit by an Oct. 31 deadline, Johnson ...

President Donald Trump warned Russia not to interfere in U.S. elections in talks with Russia’s top diplomat on Tuesday, the White House said, after meetings where the two sides made no visible progress on nuclear arms control. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow wanted to publish U.S.-Russian communications that ...

Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than it was in the 1990s.   The assessment comes from an international team of polar scientists who’ve reviewed all the satellite observations over a 26-year period. They say Greenland’s contribution to sea-level rise is currently tracking what had been regarded as a ...

Company hails start of the ‘electric aviation age’ after 15-minute test flight in Vancouver   The world’s first fully electric commercial aircraft has taken its inaugural test flight, taking off from the Canadian city of Vancouver and flying for 15 minutes. “This proves that commercial aviation in all-electric form can ...

Authorities vow to return to recover eight bodies but ‘significant increase’ in volcanic activity leads to delays   New Zealand police have vowed to return to White Island to retrieve the bodies of eight tourists who died there, as the first Australian victims of the volcanic eruption were named. Police ...

Venite Bernard’s feet are bloodied and torn because, she said, she had no time to grab her sandals when she fled her shack with her youngest children as gangsters roamed the Haitian capital’s most notorious slum, shooting people in their homes. Now the 47-year-old Bernard and her family are camped ...