The rapid increase in satellites and space junk will make low Earth orbit unusable unless companies and countries cooperate and share the data needed to manage that most accessible region of space, experts and industry insiders said.

A small leftwing environmentalist political party in Norway succeeded in blocking plans to mine the sea bed at the bottom of the Arctic.

Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution failed to reach an agreement.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza has been detected at a poultry farm in New Zealand’s South Island.

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Sunday he had pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, who had been convicted of making false statements on a gun background check and illegally possessing a firearm and pled guilty to federal tax charges.

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-the has arrived in the US state of Hawaii for a two-day visit, drawing a furious reaction from China.

US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose 100% tariffs on a bloc of nine nations if they were to create a rival currency to the US dollar.

Police in Tanzania are investigating the reported kidnapping of opposition youth leader Abdul Nondo.

Russia carried out “a series of air strikes” in Syria on Sunday as rebels advanced after seizing Aleppo, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said Lebanese American businessman Massad Boulos would serve as senior adviser on Arab and Middle Eastern affairs.

Protesters and police skirmished in Georgia’s capital for a fourth straight night on Sunday and there were signs that opposition was spreading across the country to the government’s decision to suspend talks on joining the European Union.

Hamas leaders held talks with Egyptian security officials on Sunday in a fresh push for a ceasefire in the Gaza war, two Hamas sources said, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to hold security talks on the matter, two Israeli officials said.