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China’s oil consumption fell sharply in the second quarter, including a 16 percent decline in transportation use, contributing to a modest reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

The World Meteorological Organization says the 2026 El Niño is firmly established, likely to strengthen further and has a nearly 100 percent chance of persisting through February 2027.

Mitsubishi has unveiled the fifth-generation Pajero, reviving its flagship off-road SUV with body-on-frame construction, a seven-seat cabin and hardware designed for difficult terrain.

Honda is seeking about 1.5 trillion yen, or $9.4 billion, in savings by 2030 and has assigned suppliers aggressive price-reduction targets as it responds to mounting competition from Chinese automakers.

Philadelphia’s Sept. 2 morning news roundup highlighted the planned closure of the Academy of Natural Sciences museum, a Medicare-related MyChart phishing warning, local investment and public-safety developments.

Philadelphia is marking its role in the creation of the U.S. Constitution with a public event at the National Constitution Center, revisiting the document signed at Independence Hall on Sept. 17, 1787.

Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University is preparing to end public museum operations in September after more than two centuries of natural-history work and nearly 200 years as a public museum.

Russia will close multiple branches of Germany's Goethe Institute in response to Germany ordering the closure of a Russian cultural centre in Berlin, Moscow said Thursday, amid spiralling tensions between the two countries.

Disinformation about recent anti-government protests in Indonesia has inundated social media in what researchers say is a coordinated attempt to spread propaganda about the one-year-old movement.

A spacecraft carrying European and Japanese probes will complete an eight-year journey to arrive at Mercury on Thursday, while still facing high-risk manoeuvres to study the Sun-scorched planet.

Oil prices sank Thursday after Donald Trump suggested the latest US attacks against Iran would likely be short-lived.

As an alarm reverberated throughout a Philippine high school on Thursday, students scrambled behind locked doors and police swept corridors in a drill aimed at preparing for an attack once unthinkable in the Southeast Asian country.

Grammy Award-winning American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson died on Wednesday in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, her manager said. She was 70.

Frederick Teiko Ofori spent a large portion of his life with a guitar in his hands, so when the Ghanaian musician died in a road accident, his family decided that the instrument should accompany him on his final journey.

A rare trio of hurricanes were churning through the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, which scientists attributed to waters warmed by a historically strong El Nino phenomenon.

The French Top 14 season starts on Saturday with a host of additions to its galaxy of star names from across the rugby-playing world.

China's WNBA star Li Yueru will miss the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup in Berlin after losing her passport in the mail.

Desperate families of missing foreigners were clinging to hope as they combed hospitals and morgues in search of clues, a week after catastrophic floods tore through Nepal's Himalayan border region.

A carved bamboo flute trills before the percussion picks up the pace as the performers on Sao Tome bring a medieval European tragedy to life on the island off Africa's west coast.

Germany faces a landmark regional election Sunday in the ex-communist east where the far-right AfD is easily expected to win and has its sights on heading its first state government.

Iran attacked US military bases in Kuwait on Thursday, despite President Donald Trump threatening further strikes in a fresh flare-up six months into the war.

Japan will get a chance to avenge their heart-breaking World Cup defeat to Brazil when they take part in a four-team international tournament in Singapore in November, organisers said Thursday.

Carlos Alcaraz said Wednesday he plans to play fewer tournaments in future, blaming an "impossible" tennis calendar for a rising number of injuries in the sport.

Washington and Canberra agreed to boost the US military presence in Australia and speed up cooperation, both countries said.

Carlos Alcaraz got off to a sluggish start but stormed home, and Aryna Sabalenka was in control all the way as the defending champions led a stream of contenders into the third round of the US Open on Wednesday

When a wall of icy debris from a glacial collapse on the China-Nepal border tore through his village last week, Pemba Chhring Tamang watched the landscape he had known all his life disappear.

Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz overcame an early wobble to book his place in the third round of the US Open on Wednesday, recovering from a set down to defeat Portugal's Jaime Faria in four sets.

Most Asian stocks enjoyed a healthy recovery Thursday following a drab start to the week as bond yields and oil prices dropped after Donald Trump suggested the latest US attacks against Iran would likely be short-lived.

Lewis Hamilton will seek to boost his hopes of an unprecedented eighth drivers' world championship with a record sixth Italian Grand Prix win on Sunday when he races on Ferrari's home tarmac.

Armand 'Mondo' Duplantis and Jamaica's world 100m champion Oblique Seville headline the opening day of the two-day Diamond League finals in Brussels on Friday.

Iran and the United States traded threats on Wednesday after some of the heaviest fighting in weeks engulfed the Middle East, deepening the foes' stalemate six months into the war.

A dinosaur statue stands guard outside a temple, a hint at the ancient giants buried deep in the earth below making up northeastern Thailand's "dinosaur rush".