Wildfires are exploding across the West, especially in California, where the Park Fire has grown to be the biggest in the state this year. The largest of several wildfires in the state is the Park Fire, burning in Butte, Tehama, Shasta and...
As the Paris Olympics are set to open this week, the United States goes in as the favorite to win the most medals. China is unlikely to overtake the U.S. in the overall medal haul, but has a chance to win more gold medals than the Americans. Though ...
Life-threatening heat is returning to the West before spreading to the East Coast later this week. This weekend, record highs were tied and broken from Florida to Colorado. Dalhart, Texas, in the Texas Panhandle, hit a record high of 103 degrees, w...
A team of scientists and engineers have landed in Antarctica to test a drone that will help experts forecast the impacts of climate change. The autonomous plane will map areas of the continent that have been out of bounds to researchers....
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Pay with your palm: Tencent launches new payment method in China...
Chinese technology giant Alibaba has announced plans to roll out its own artificial intelligence (AI) ChatGPT-style product called Tongyi Qianwen. Its cloud computing unit says it will integrate the chatbot across Alibaba's businesses in...
Illegal electric blankets are being sold online which could cause electric shocks, a consumer group warns. Which? found some of the products being sold are made "so poorly" they could pose "a serious risk". Se...
India's health ministry is on alert following a surge of Covid cases in neighbouring China. The government has instructed states to ensure genome sequencing of all positive cases in the country. It has also asked state government...
China has become the first country to approve an inhaled Covid vaccine. Made by CanSino, it has similar ingredients to its injected vaccine, using a harmless adenovirus as a carrier for the genetic code that teaches the body how to figh...
Three Chinese astronauts have begun a six-month mission, to work on the country's new space station. It is China's latest step towards making itself a leading space power for the decades ahead. What is the Tiangong space station?...
Scientists have made the most precise map yet of the mountains, canyons and plains that make up the floor of Antarctica's encircling Southern Ocean. Covering 48 million sq km, this chart for the first time details a new deepest point...
Scientists have mapped coral reefs in the Caribbean to identify those most likely to survive climate change. Corals with the highest potential to escape destruction from marine heat waves are predominantly located along the north...
The fight for Kyiv Russian forces arrived near Obolon on the outskirts of Kyiv on Friday, but so far have not advanced into the centre of the capital. The Ukrainian military says Russian troops have repeatedly tried to storm the outsk...
Google has disabled live traffic data from being displayed on its Maps app in Ukraine. The app displays this information by collecting anonymous data from Android smartphones, which shows how busy roads and different places are....
Wu Dajing struck his right skate across the finish line two-hundredths of a second ahead of a lunging Pietro Sighel from Italy as China won its first gold of the Beijing Games in the new short track mixd team relay event....
The rock samples brought back from the Moon in December by China's Chang'e-5 mission were really young. It's all relative, of course, but the analysis shows the basalt material - the solidified remnants of a lava flow - to be jus...
Online gamers under the age of 18 will only be allowed to play for an hour on Fridays, weekends and holidays, China's video game regulator has said. The National Press and Publication Administration told state-run news agency Xin...
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi has halted plans to launch in the UK and continental Europe, a source close to the company has told the BBC. The Uber rival had been planning to roll out services in Western Europe, including major...