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From Delhi to Tokyo, students take to streets for climate change protests

It was expected to be the biggest protest ever against the threat posed to the planet by climate change

Thomas Cook collapses, leaves over 600,000 holidaymakers stranded abroad

The UK government said Monday it had hired planes to fly home British tourists, in a mass repatriation plan codenamed Operation Matterhorn which began immediately

Iran says seized UK-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero 'free' to leave

"The legal process has finished and based on that the conditions for letting the oil tanker go free have been fulfilled and the oil tanker can move," says official

Amid spat, Rouhani heads to UN to win Iran support against 'cruel' US

"When the Americans aren't willing (to let Iran participate), we must insist on travelling," Rouhani said.

Protesters in Hong Kong trample a Chinese flag, set street fires

Some put a Chinese flag on the floor and took turns running over it, before defacing it and putting it in a dumpster outside, which they then pushed into a nearby river

Iran President Rouhani accuses foreign forces of raising Gulf 'insecurity'

Rouhani also said Iran would present a peace plan to the United Nations in the coming days

Five-year period ending 2019 set to be hottest on record, says UN report

Other major takeaways from the report include that the extent of Arctic summer sea ice has declined at a rate of 12 per cent per decade over the past 40 years

Thomas Cook fails to find private investors, now relies on govt bailout

But ministers are unlikely to step in due to worries about the pioneering operator's longer-term viability

Iran issues 'battlefield' warning as tensions escalate with arch-rival US

Tensions escalated between arch-foes Iran and the United States after last weekend's attacks on Saudi energy giant Aramco

General Motors' 'all-electric' promise could spell doom for US auto workers

More than 49,000 union workers are on strike against the company and have shut down its factories for the past six days

French watchdog, pharma firm on trial as Diabetes pill causes 500 deaths

Legal experts have concluded the drug may cause as many as 2,100 deaths in the long term

If anyone crosses our borders, we will hit them: Iran's foreign minister

Iran has denied involvement in the Sept 14 attack in Saudi Arabia that was initially claimed by Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels

Whistleblower complaint and Trump's phone call: Here's what we know

The phone call in question, according to US media reports, was a July 25 conversation between Trump and Ukraine's newly elected President Volodymyr Zelensky

US to deploy forces in Gulf in response to attacks on Saudi oil facilities

US to deploy forces in Gulf on after drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities

Personal data of Ecuador's entire population leaked online, say experts

The security company vpnMentor uncovered the breach on the server run by the firm Novaestrat

US readies response to Saudi oil attacks, says Iran likely to blame

US Secretary of Defense Mike Esper also singled out Iran as a regional destabilizing force, while stopping short of directly accusing Tehran over the strike

Developing nations should increase carbon footprint to tackle hunger: Study

The study also found that a food's country of origin can have huge consequences for its climate impact

Edward Snowden calls on Emmanuel Macron to grant him asylum in France

Snowden unsuccessfully applied for asylum in France in 2013 under Macron's predecessor, Francois Hollande. He has also sought asylum in several other countries

Brexit talks with EU to intensify, PM Johnson rules out exit delay

Johnson insists Britain must leave the European Union on schedule, with or without a divorce deal with Brussels

Purdue Pharma files for bankruptcy in bid to settle opioid crisis cases

Pharmaceutical giant is facing thousands of lawsuits blaming its prescription painkiller OxyContin for plunging millions of Americans into addiction.