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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

No need for Google to apply 'right to be forgotten' worldwide: EU court

Google had argued that the removal of search results required under EU law should not extend to its google.com domain

Nissan recalls 1.3 mn vehicles in US, Canada to fix backup camera display

The recall covers most of the Nissan and Infiniti model lineups from the 2018 and 2019 model years

UN climate panel okays report detailing impact of global warming on oceans

At issue is what might have been a routine reference to the October 2018 IPCC report on the feasibility of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius

Tech giants beef up anti-terrorism body to fight extremist content

Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and YouTube in 2017 formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, a vaguely conceived alliance tasked with tackling the most dangerous material on social media

National Stock Exchange system hit by glitch in final minutes of trade

Sources said the exchange is looking to ascertain the reason for the glitch. Some officials said the problem occurred due to a connectivity issue with one of the internet services providers, Sify

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

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