The number of new marriages recorded in China fell to a record low last year, despite sweeping government efforts to encourage young people to tie the knot and have babies to halt demographic decline in the world’s second-largest economy. Some 6.1 million couples registered their marriages in 2024, a plunge…
At least 31 suspected Maoist rebels and two police officials were killed on Sunday in the deadliest combat so…
Two rare black wolves, likely siblings, were spotted on camera crossing a stream in a Polish forest, a conservation…
Polls have closed and votes are now being counted in Ecuador’s general election, where 16 candidates are vying for…
Israeli police raided two Palestinian bookstores in occupied east Jerusalem on Sunday, confiscating books and arresting one of the…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party won elections in the sprawling megacity of Delhi for the first…
Five Thai workers released after being held hostage for over a year in Gaza arrived in Bangkok on Sunday.…
Ecuadorian voters are preparing to cast their ballots for a new president for the second time in 18 months…