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As more of world thirsts, luxury water becomes fashionable among the elite

Millions of people worldwide don't have clean water to drink, even though the United Nations deemed water a basic human right more than a decade ago

Prez candidate Ramaswamy struggles to gain traction with Iowa Republicans

While Ramaswamy is packing his schedule with stops across Iowa, he has failed to move up in the 2024 Republican primary race and is increasingly at risk of becoming an afterthought

North Korea tells Japan it will make 3rd attempt to launch spy satellite

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told officials to try to talk Pyongyang into scrapping the plan in cooperation with the United States and South Korea, the Kyodo report said

S Korea's prez to talk trade, technology and defence on state visit to UK

Yoon landed at Stansted Airport near London on Monday. Britain hopes his formal three-day visit will help cement an "Indo-Pacific tilt" in its foreign and trade policy

Cyprus ready to ship aid to Gaza once a go-ahead is given, says president

Planning for the corridor of about 230 miles (370 kilometers) is essentially completed, and aid can begin to flow when a pause in fighting is declared, Christodoulides said

World racing to well past warming limit as carbon emissions rise: UN report

Carbon emissions from the burning of coal, oil and gas rose 1.2% last year, the report said

US' Austin meets Zelensky in Ukraine to reaffirm support amid Israel crisis

This is Austin's second trip to Kyiv, but he's making it under far different circumstances, as the world's attention is drawn to the Middle East

Ex-UK PM Boris Johnson 'bamboozled' by science, ex-adviser tells inquiry

"I think he'd be the first to admit it wasn't his forte and that he struggled with the concepts and we did need to repeat them often," he added

Launching investigation into Sam Altman's firing, says OpenAI's new CEO

OpenAI said Friday that Altman was pushed out after a review found he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board of directors, which had lost confidence in him

Over 4 ,00,000 Afghans return home from Pak following crackdown on migrants

An estimated 1.7 million Afghans had been living in Pakistan when authorities announced its nationwide crackdown, saying that anyone without proper documents had to leave the country by October 31

31 babies saved from Gaza's Shifa Hospital, '12 killed' as war continues

Israel has repeatedly ordered Palestinians to leave northern Gaza and seek refuge in the south, which has also been under aerial bombardment since the start of the war

Negotiations for treaty to end plastic pollution marred in disagreements

Delegates were expected to discuss a draft published in September that represented the views from the first two meetings

China welcomes Arab, Muslim foreign ministers for talk on war in Gaza

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the foreign diplomats that their decision to start in Beijing shows their high level of trust in his nation

Nato committed to Bosnia's territorial integrity condemns Russian influence

There are widespread fears that Russia is trying to destabilise Bosnia and the rest of the region and thus shift at least some world attention from its aggression on Ukraine

3rd batch of Release of treated water from Fukushima ends safely: operator

It began discharging treated and diluted wastewater into the ocean on August 24 and finished releasing the third 7,800-ton batch on Monday. The process is expected to take decades

Lloyd Austin makes unannounced visit to Ukraine, to meet senior officials

Austin, who traveled to Kyiv by train from Poland, is scheduled to meet with senior Ukrainian officials and publicly press Ukraine's urgent military needs as it enters another tough winter of fighting

1 dead, 11 missing after Turkish ship sinks in Black Sea in severe storms

The Turkish-flagged Kafkametler sank on Sunday after hitting a breakwater outside the harbor off the town of Eregli, some 200 kilometers (124 miles) east of Istanbul

Heavy fighting breaks out near another Gaza hospital after babies evacuated

Israel says Hamas uses civilians as human shields, while critics say Israel's siege and relentless aerial bombardment amount to collective punishment of the territory's 2.3 million Palestinians

Appeals court to decide whether to reinstate gag order against Trump

The prosecutors say those restrictions are necessary to prevent Trump from undermining confidence in the court system and intimidating people who may be called to testify against him

Vogt resigns as CEO of Cruise over questions of safety of self-driving cars

Vogt's decision to step down, announced late on Sunday, follows a recent recall of all 950 Cruise vehicles to update software after one of them dragged a pedestrian to the side in San Francisco