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Chinese gaming giant Tencent will scan gamers' faces to prevent children playing at night.

A video of a five-year-old girl carting around a US$75,000 camera to film a school wildlife project has gone viral on Chinese social media platforms. Meng Meng often follows her photo-videographer father when he goes shooting.

As the crisis in Ukraine continues to intensify, so does the relentless war of words in and around the conflict. Vladimir Putin shocked many by saying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has only just begun. One thing is for sure: with heavy shelling targeting...

Venice is one of the world's most beautiful cities. It is made up of over a hundred islands in a lagoon in the northern Adriatic Sea. Venice is a cultural and tourist destination known for its museums, architecture, cityscape, and art world.

New facility unites the economic and demographic giants of Asia and Africa

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited the far western region of Xinjiang on July 12-13, 2022, on his first trip to the area in eight years. The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is seen as a sensitive topic, with Beijing blaming years of violent attacks in...

Ukraine's border with Belarus is seeing a troubling military build-up. Western intelligence agencies say Russian soldiers and weapons systems are ready and waiting in Belarus to open a new front against Ukraine — something that would stretch Kyiv's forces...

On July 8, 2022 former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe died after being shot during a campaign speech. He was Japan’s longest-serving prime minister and played a significant role in the country’s political landscape.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi says he will resign, but Italy's President Sergio Mattarella rejected the offer. Bloomberg's Tommaso Ebhardt reports on "...

DRAMATIC moment hero vets save mother elephant's life with CPR and rescues baby from drain in Thailand. The animal and her baby slipped into the 7ft deep hole during a storm which made the grass muddy and wet in Nakhon Nayok province, Thailand on July 1...

Facebook’s parent company Meta has drawn fire over its summary of a long-awaited report on its human rights impact in India

Voyager 1 is in trouble. The engineering team with NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is trying to solve a mystery: readouts from the probe’s attitude articulation and control system (AACS) don’t reflect what’s actually happening onboard. The AACS controls the 4...

The Trump family is mourning the death of Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of former president Donald Trump. She was found dead inside her Upper East Side home Thursday. CBS2's Dick Brennan reports.

NASA revealed the first five full-color images and spectrographic data from the world's most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency), and CSA (Canadian Space Agency). The world got its first...

Shanghai residents queued in sweltering heat for compulsory Covid-19 mass testing on July 14, 2022. New outbreaks fuelled anxiety in the Chinese metropolis city still recovering from a two-month lockdown that was lifted only a few weeks ago.

Alibaba Group is cutting over a third of staff in its in-house deals team, four people with knowledge of the matter said, after Beijing's sweeping regulatory crackdown sharply slowed the Chinese e-commerce behemoth's dealmaking pace.