Squishy toys and play-doh were Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates's tools of choice as he explained the challenge we face in tackling climate change. And it took him less than two minutes to drive home his point.
Two young Saudi sisters in Hong Kong said Thursday they had been intercepted by kingdom officials at the city's airport while attempting to escape to Australia, in the latest case of women fleeing the ultra-conservative country.
With only eight days left in their trade truce, top US and Chinese officials on Thursday returned to the daunting task of bridging a chasm between the world's two largest economies.
A black US TV actor staged an attack against him which exploited the "pain" of racism in a publicity stunt which sullied the reputation of America's third-largest city, police alleged Thursday.
President Donald Trump said Thursday American firms should "step up their efforts" on 5G -- superfast fifth-generation wireless networks -- while suggesting he was not prepared to block foreign firms from the US market for the key technology.
Two astronauts who survived a midair rocket failure in October said on Thursday they had received counselling following their brush with death and felt ready to fly again next month.
Pakistan on Thursday banned the 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed's terror outfit Jamaat-ud-Dawa JuD and its front Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation or FIF, amid intense global pressure to rein in the terror groups following the Pulwama terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 40 paramilitary soldiers.
At least 26 people were killed in Pakistan on Thursday due to incidents of roof collapse and flash floods, triggered by torrential rains that lashed several cities in the country, according to a media report.
US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris, who is of Indian and Jamaican descent, has been slammed by her father for saying that she smoked marijuana in her younger years and supports it becoming legalized.
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday chaired a key meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) during which the country's security situation was discussed, amidst heightened tensions between India and Pakistan following the Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF soldiers.
Hundreds of people sifted through a vast wasteland of rubbish strewn across a beach in Indonesia on Thursday, underscoring the Southeast Asian archipelago's mammoth marine waste problem.
President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is militarily ready for a Cuban Missile-style crisis if the United States is foolish enough to want one and that his country currently has the edge when it comes to a first nuclear strike.
Remaining civilians are expected to be evacuated from ISIS's final enclave in eastern Syria on Thursday, US-backed forces said, clearing the way for them to wipe out the last vestige of terrorist rule that once straddled Syria and Iraq.
