Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday that his government would temporarily halt tax hikes on draught beer, amid sagging popularity for the governing Labor Party ahead of a general election due by May.

Donald Trump was sued by the Democratic Party over a recent executive order it says violates federal election law by giving him too much power over the independent Federal Election Commission.

Ukraine’s president had been hoping to leave the White House on Friday after positive talks with Donald Trump, capped with the signing of a minerals deal giving the US a real stake in his country’s future, if not an outright security guarantee.

Protesters hurled petrol bombs and set fire to trash cans in Athens on Friday as hundreds of thousands of Greeks went on strike and took to the streets in nationwide demonstrations on the second anniversary of the country’s deadliest train crash.

Recently in Tokyo an AI-driven robot leaned over a man lying on his back and gently put a hand on his knee and another on a shoulder and rolled him onto his side — a manoeuvre used to change diapers or prevent bedsores in the elderly.

Two dozen people were arrested this week for their role in a criminal group that distributed images generated by artificial intelligence of children being sexually abused, the European Union’s police agency said.

Bangladeshi students at the forefront of protests that ousted Sheikh Hasina as prime minister last year launched a political party on Friday to contest elections likely to be held by the end of the year.

At least 25 people remain trapped under snow after an avalanche struck the Indian Himalayan mountain state of Uttarakhand, authorities said on Friday, following recent heavy snowfall in the region.

President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to make English the official U.S. language, a White House official said on Friday, for the first time in the country’s history.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s meeting with Donald Trump ended in disaster on Friday.

Pope Francis had an “isolated breathing crisis” in hospital on Friday, the Vatican said, in a setback as the 88-year-old pontiff battles double pneumonia.

More than 120 journalists from across the globe will participate in the China International Press Communication Center’s media exchange program this year.