When Farid's friend called crying for help on Sunday, he jumped on his bike and quickly rode to Tehran's Sharif University.

A US airstrike in Somalia killed an al-Shabaab militant leader on Saturday in coordination with the Somali government, US Africa Command said in a statement.

The British government has announced it will reverse plans to scrap the highest rate of income tax, following a major backlash to its proposed "growth plan."

Canberra is set to rescue dozens of Australian women and children of ISIS fighters from refugee camps in Syria, following a secret mission by the country's security intelligence agency, media reported on Monday.

OPEC+ will consider an oil output cut of more than a million barrels per day (bpd) next week, OPEC sources said on Sunday, in what would be the biggest move yet since the COVID-19 pandemic to address oil market weakness.

Around the world, markets are flashing warning signs that the global economy is teetering on a cliff's edge.

Bosnians go to the polls on Sunday to choose the country's new collective presidency and lawmakers at national, regional and local levels, deciding between long-entrenched nationalist parties and reformists focused on the economy.

Tesla revealed on Friday a prototype of a humanoid robot that it says could be a future product for the automaker.

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Residents on the small resort island of Polillo are accustomed to severe weather -- their island sits in the northeastern Philippines, on the edge of the Pacific Ocean where storms typically gather strength and turn into typhoons.