Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam warned on Tuesday the city could not afford further "chaos" as it marked the first anniversary of the start of rolling mass pro-democracy protests.
In recent days, North Korea has increasingly expressed its anger over the leafleting by threatening to permanently shut down a liaison office with South Korea and a jointly run factory park, as well as nullify a 2018 inter-Korean tension-reduction agreement.
Researchers have used ground-penetrating radar to map an entire ancient Roman city, detecting remarkable details of buildings still deep underground including a temple and a unique public monument.
On Monday morning operations began to dismantle scaffolding that was already in place before the April 2019 fire amid previous restoration efforts on the old structures.
Hundreds of mourners lined up outside a church in George Floyd's native Houston for a final public viewing Monday.
The Minneapolis police officer charged with second-degree murder in George Floyd's death was scheduled to make his first court appearance Monday.
Lawyers for Britain's Prince Andrew on Monday hit back at claims the royal was not co-operating with U.S. prosecutors investigating the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, and suggested the justice officials were seeking publicity rather than Andrew's help.
Wide-scale lockdowns including shop and school closures have reduced COVID-19 transmission rates in Europe enough to control its spread and may have averted more than three million deaths, researchers said on Monday.
Germany's defence minister suggested Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump's reported plans to withdraw more than a quarter of American troops out of Germany could weaken not only the NATO alliance but also the U.S. itself.
Energy company BP said Monday that its global workforce will be trimmed by 10,000 jobs as the COVID-19 pandemic slams the oil and gas industry.
Travellers to Britain are now being required to go into quarantine for two weeks — a sweeping measure meant to halt the further spread of COVID-19. Here's a look at what's happening around the world on Monday.
New York City, which has seen more than 21,000 people die of confirmed or probable COVID-19 - a total greater than most countries in the world - enters Phase One of its reopening strategy on Monday.
Cristobal weakened to a tropical depression Monday morning, after crashing ashore as a lopsided tropical storm a day prior in Louisiana and ginned up dangerous weather farther east, sending waves crashing over Mississippi beaches, swamping parts of an Alabama island town and spawning a tornado in Florida.
Ideas for police reform are percolating through the United States in the wake of George Floyd's death. Minneapolis is talking about disbanding its force. One violence-plagued New Jersey city offers a roadmap.
As pandemic restrictions were lifted this past week, with Italy opening its borders to travellers, the country's world-renowned museums and cultural sites saw only a trickle of tourists arriving. Italians now have the chance to see their own masterpieces by booking just days in advance, rather than weeks or months.
Jacinda Ardern says she's confident New Zealand has halted the spread of the coronavirus after the last known infected person in the country recovered.
