A reserve of more than 192 million tonnes of manganese ore, believed to the largest in Asia, has been discovered in southwest China's Guizhou Province, it was announced Friday, according to Xinhua. Pujue manganese ore was discovered in mountains between Songtao Miao Autonomous County and ...

Somalia’s extremist Shebab militants killed at least 19 people when five gunmen detonated a bomb before storming a popular seaside restaurant in the capital Mogadishu, police said on Friday. “They killed nearly 20 people, including women and children ...

The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, has confirmed she will stand for a second term, according to the BBC. Ms Lagarde threw her hat into the ring during an appearance on French television ...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the first-ever High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment to provide leadership and mobilize concrete actions aimed at closing economic gender gaps that persist around the world, according to UN Radio ...

Collapsing into giggles could burn as many calories as a brisk walk, according to scientists, Daily Mail said. Even a sneaky snigger could give your muscles a workout, burning around ten calories an hour, a study found ...

Japan will renew oil imports from the United States after US Congress lifted a 40-year export ban last month, Japanese media reported Tuesday, according to Sputnik News. The crude export ban was attached to a 2016 omnibus spending ...

The next iPhones could feature Li-Fi technology, a method of transmitting data through light which is around 100 times faster than Wi-Fi, according to the Telegraph. Codebreaker Chase Fromm spotted mention of 'LiFiCapability' in operating system iOS 9.1's library cache ...

BP's chief executive, Bob Dudley, has said it's "not impossible" oil prices will fall as low as $10 per barrel, as some analysts have predicted. Standard Chartered previously warned a worse-case scenario could see oil fall to this level, because its being moved by changes ...

An earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hit Menyuan county of Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China's Qinghai province at 1:13 a.m. on Thursday, according to Xinhua. ...

The Nord Stream II will not require financial support from the European Union because it will be met by Gazprom and its partners, the CEO of Gazprom Export, Elena Burmistrova, said Wednesday, according to Ria Novosti ...

Militants have attacked a checkpoint in Egypt's volatile Sinai Peninsula, killing five policemen. The Interior Ministry's media office says the attack took place at midnight on Wednesday in the city of el-Arish and that three ...

Scientists have found evidence of a ninth planet in the solar system which is travelling on a bizarre elongated orbit, BBC said. The body, which has been dubbed 'Planet Nine' is 10 times the mass of Earth and takes between 10,000 and 20,000 years to orbit the Sun ...

A group of militants stormed a university in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, police said, with firing inside the campus still going on and two explosions heard, according to The Hindu newspaper. Media reported that three gunmen entered the Bacha Khan University in ...

The Swedish Prosecution Authority will open a preliminary investigation over whether an apartment rental contract given to Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom by a trade union constituted a bribe, the authority said in a statement, according to The Jerusalem Post ...

Pakistan has conducted a successful flight test of a locally developed cruise missile named “Ra’ad” with a range of 350 kilometers (around 218 miles), the military said, according to AFP. “The state of the art Ra’ad ALCM (air-launched cruise missile) is equipped with ...

The World Economic Forum has opened in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, bringing together leading representatives of the world`s political and business elites, according to TASS. Organizers say its main theme is the beginning of the fourth industrial revolution. ...

Art lovers take note: a sprawling villa once owned by the artist and sculptor Michelangelo Buonarroti is on the market. And if you have a few million to spare, the masterpiece could be yours, according to The Local. ...

French carmaker Renault, which has been under the spotlight over high levels of harmful emissions, is recalling 15,000 new cars, according to the BBC. The move comes after tests showed emission levels from some of its vehicles were too high. ...

A teenager has been charged after a series of alleged social media bomb threats caused the evacuation of the Sydney Opera House last week, according to The Daily Mail. On Thursday the iconic landmark was evacuated and the surrounding area searched ...