Europe hits 40 degrees Celsius as heatwave threatens tourism industry, wildlife
Published: 11:21pm, 21 Jun 2026Updated: 6:00am, 22 Jun 2026 A severe heatwave gripped much of Europe on Sunday, with temperatures nearing 40 degrees Celsius...
Red Hawk rising: how the Z-20 family is plugging China’s chronic defence gaps
Telling a Harbin Z-20 and a Sikorsky UH-60 “Black Hawk” apart can be challenging – the two helicopters look almost identical and their dimensions...
Bolivian lawmakers approve state of emergency as protests choke supply chain
Bolivia began showing signs of returning to normalcy on Sunday, a day after President Rodrigo Paz declared a state of emergency to resolve a...
Hong Kong father, son arrested after parking ticket thrown at traffic wardens
Hong Kong police have arrested an elderly man and his son for allegedly assaulting public officers after they threw a parking ticket at two...
Hong Kong man, 54, dies after e-bike plunges from goods platform
A 54-year-old Hong Kong man died after reportedly losing control of an electric bike and falling from an unloading platform in Yuen Long early...
Cancer-on-a-chip pioneer Chen Weiqiang returns to China from New York University
Chen Weiqiang, formerly a tenured professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at New York University (NYU), has joined the school of biomedical engineering at...
China’s Iran strategy an exercise in power without projection
The spectacle of US President Donald Trump thanking China for staying “neutral” with regard to the US-Israeli war against Iran would have been unthinkable...
China’s Poorest Trillionaire: Xi Family’s Hidden Ledgers Leaked—Becoming the Next Maduro?
Will Xi Jinping become the next Maduro? Could he lose internal power struggles and end up facing trial? Or even, like Khamenei, be directly...
KMT accuses DPP of targeting Taiwan’s farmers over trade ties with mainland
Taiwan’s main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) has hit out at the island’s government for launching investigations into five agricultural groups over participation in a mainland...