Sanofi has stopped further work on amcenestrant, a treatment once seen to have strong commercial potential in breast cancer after a second trial failure dealt a major blow to the French healthcare company’s development prospects. The move weighed on shares and mounted pressure on Sanofi to bolster its pipeline of …

Government defends the measure as helping to dismantle ‘terrorist structures’ amid criticism from human rights groups.

UN rights chief says the return of Rohingya refugees is not possible currently due to concerns about their safety in Myanmar.

Move comes after gradual efforts to restore ties, including a visit by the Israeli president to Turkey in March.

An international human rights organization has expressed grave concern over the alarming surge in executions in Saudi Arabia in the first half of the current year, saying the figure is almost twice the number during all of last year.

Suspected rebels have killed civilians and damaged a major hydropower plant under construction in Virunga National Park in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the park operator said on Wednesday. Tuesday’s attack, which included the use of artillery, came from the direction of positions held by the M23 rebel group, …

A cry of “run, run, run, run” rang out across the hillside as a wall of flame fed by high winds swept down towards four Spanish firefighters, engulfing tinder-dry bracken seconds after they fled for their lives. The wildfire they were battling on Wednesday was in the eastern Valencia region, …

Chinese troops will travel to Russia to take part in joint military exercises led by the host and including India, Belarus, Mongolia, Tajikistan, and other countries, China’s defence ministry said on Wednesday. China’s participation in the joint exercises was “unrelated to the current international and regional situation”, the ministry said …

Iran has expressed its readiness for swift implementation of a prisoner swap deal with the US while urging Washington to free Iranians imprisoned in the US without tying the issue with irrelevant issues.

Smoke from a huge wildfire in central Portugal enveloped skyscrapers known as the “Four Towers” in Madrid 400 km (250 miles) away on Tuesday, and residents of the Spanish capital complained of a strong burning smell. The fire, which has ravaged Portugal’s Serra da Estrela national park, started on August …

A transparent protective coating material that can heal itself in 30 minutes when exposed to sunlight might just be the solution to car scratches, scientists say.

Microsoft provides a rare insight into total Xbox One sales figures.

Like something out of Jurassic Park, a Dallas-based genetics company announced Tuesday it is working to resurrect Australia’s extinct Tasmanian tiger, also known as the thylacine, to slow biodiversity loss and climate change.

Racism remains rampant in the sport despite players kneeling in protest. Should they stop? Absolutely not.

A Turkish air strike on a Syrian border post has claimed the lives of nearly a dozen people in the war-torn country’s Kurdish-majority north.

Oil prices fell over 2% on Tuesday to their lowest since before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as economic data spurred concerns about a potential global recession, while the market awaited clarity on talks to revive a deal that could allow more Iranian oil exports.

Germany has deployed troops with the European Union’s peacekeeping mission in Bosnia for the first time in a decade as concerns mount instability from the Ukraine war could spread to the Western Balkans. On Tuesday, the first German troops to return to the country were greeted in a ceremony at …

The United States Department of States has said that it has received Iran’s response to the EU proposal on the nuclear deal, and it is studying it.

Explosions follow an attack last week on the Crimean airbase that damaged and destroyed several Russian warplanes.

Global experts have agreed to refer to monkeypox virus variants by Roman numerals