Lucas talks about his name, being born in France, living in LA for five years, making Ticket to Paradise with George Clooney and Julia Roberts, being quarantined in Australia, doing a kissing scene with Julia Roberts, and pranking George Clooney on set.

BANGKOK (AP) — A hoped-for boom in Chinese tourism in Asia over next week’s Lunar New Year holidays looks set to be more of a blip as most travelers opt to stay inside China if they go anywhere. From the beaches of Bali to Hokkaido’s powdery ski slopes,...

Microsoft is cutting 10,000 workers, almost 5% of its workforce, joining other tech companies that have scaled back their pandemic-era expansions.

BAZHOU, China (AP) — Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China’s industrial Hebei province, 70 kilometers (43 miles) southwest of Beijing. Her mother-in-law had COVID-19 and needed urgent medical care, but all hosp...

No new fatalities reported this week, despite numerous reports of overloaded hospitals and crematoriums

Cases were exploding in China well before the government's decision to abandon its strict "zero-COVID" policy, the director said, quashing suggestions that the sudden reversal caused a spike.

STROMBOLI volcano erupted on Sunday (October 9) morning, unleashing a dramatic plume of smoke and a lava flow that reached the sea. No casualties or damage were reported. The Stromboli volcano, located in southern Italy off the Sicilian coast, is one of t...

New recruits in Crimea and St Petersburg depart for Russian military bases as armed forces enlists 300,000 new recruits amid mobilisation. The Russian Ministry of Defence declared this Tuesday that it has not requested nor plans to request other countrie...

A Brit captured by the Russians in Ukraine today details his remarkable five-month survival fight — and how his captors said his death could either be “quick” or “beautiful”. In his first interview since being freed this week, brave Aiden Aslin, 28, tells...

Five British POWs have been released from Ukraine after being captured by Russian forces. They include Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner - who had been sentenced to death by the Russians - and were freed after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman negotiated...

ME/CFS, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, is a severe neuroimmunological disease. Not much is known about the disease, and there is virtually no treatment. Howeve...

Operator Starsky is a currently serving Ukrainian National Guardsman. Starsky has been operating a large YouTube channel and is currently the largest source of English speaking news about the war from the perspective of a Ukrainian military member. In t...

Many people may never be able to put the pandemic behind them. They have long Covid, a catch-all term for illness that lingers long after a Covid-19 infectio...

China's central bank ealier today trimming lending rates for the second time this year, taking its key rate down ten points to 2.75 percent. That as latest economic data showed there was need for more stimulus to support the economy. Retail sales and indu...

US president Joe Biden made the latest in a long line of gaffes when he got stuck in his jacket and was forced to ask Jill for help. The First Lady had to step in and help her husband get hold of the jacket’s sleeve which was blowing away in the wind caus...