Canada has become a top destination for China's 1 per centers. From 2005 to 2012, at least 37,000 Chinese millionaires became permanent residents of British Columbia, where they're blamed for a real estate price surge.

A Greek banking collapse has been temporarily averted after the European Central Bank pumped in a huge new injection of emergency funds, halting the need for capital controls this weekend.

Former Wests Tigers prop Matthew Lodge has secured a plea deal in New York that could let him sidestep a jail sentence, but he still faces paying millions of dollars to the victims of his violent rampage.

Spain's Constitutional Court ordered the suspension of Monday's session of the regional Catalan parliament, throwing its plans to declare unilateral independence from Spain into doubt.

The son of a Kenyan government official was one of the masked gunmen who killed nearly 150 at a university last week, the interior ministry said on Sunday, as Kenyan churches hired armed guards to protect their Easter congregations.

Spurned by conservative Catholics during the Cold War for being too like communism, liberation theology is finding new support.

Thirty-six people are dead after Russia's worst coal mining accident in years, with authorities saying Sunday that they have abandoned rescue efforts in the northern town of Vorkuta.

French police have fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators in Paris, as thousands gathered in the capital and staged road blockades across the nation to vent anger against rising fuel taxes and Emmanuel Macron's presidency.

The drop halted a growth streak dating to its founding in 1850 on the heels of a gold rush that prompted a flood of people to seek their fortune in the West.

The largest diamond ever cut in Russia - a 100.94 carat stone called the Alrosa Spectacle - will be auctioned in Geneva later this month.

Beirut: Lawyers negotiating on behalf of jailed Australian woman Sally Faulkner and her estranged Lebanese-American husband have failed to reach agreement, leaving Ms Faulkner as well as a Nine Network news crew in a Lebanese jail facing kidnapping charges.

Neo-fascist party's share of the vote doubles on island where tens of thousands of migrants have arrived in Greece.

Alex Salmond, Scotland's former first minister and a champion of Scottish independence, said on Sunday that he would seek election to the British Parliament in May.

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Five people have died and 21 more have been hospitalized after they were infected with listeria linked to prepackaged caramel apples, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Who is is the self-exiled and hermit-like US resident who pulls the strings of a movement blamed by Turkey's president for an attempted coup?

The Turnbull government has ratified the Paris climate agreement, formalising Australia's commitment to a global effort to curb carbon emissions and reduce the risk of dangerous climate change.

As Australia debates the need to spend money on renewable energy projects to power our future without destroying the environment, it is worth taking a look at rubbish.

Chinese authorities have warned the deadly disease appears to be intensifying, as the first death confirmed in Hainan province.

Stanford professor Shirin Sinnar testified that Donald Trump’s coronavirus “racist dog whistles” created “ripple effects across society at large”.