Improvements in cancer survival rates in England and Wales have slowed down significantly since 2010, according to a major study released Wednesday, leading to calls for an urgent national cancer plan ...

Greece on Wednesday battled to contain more than 20 wildfires including one menacing its third-largest city Patras as a heatwave stoked blazes and forced the evacuation of thousands in southern Europe ...

Turkey's foreign minister and his Syrian counterpart on Wednesday warned Israel not to stir up chaos in Syria and demanded an ...

A Hong Kong court on Wednesday found J-pop artist Kenshin Kamimura guilty of indecent assault after he harassed a woman ...

Negotiators from 184 countries remained riven Wednesday on how to curb plastic pollution, less than 36 hours before they were ...

Stock markets rose and the dollar fell Wednesday on growing prospects of cuts to US interest rates after soft inflation data, ...

Swiss pilot Raphael Domjan beat the altitude record for a solar-powered electric plane in a flight that took him soaring to 9 ...

A multi-million pound conservation programme in England helped save 150 struggling species but "time is running out" to halt ...

The Israeli military said on Wednesday it had approved the framework for a new offensive in the Gaza Strip, as Hamas ...

Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim, famed for his critiques of political repression, neoliberalism and Western hegemony, has died at the age of 88, the culture ministry announced on Wednesday.