Category: World

Excluded from the conclave to elect a new pope on Wednesday – and more broadly from the church’s entire global priesthood – some Catholic women were determined that their voices … Read More

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on Wednesday he would call in the acting US ambassador to Denmark for talks after The Wall Street Journal reported Washington had ordered … Read More

The United States government currently considers Russia’s conditions for ending the war in Ukraine to be excessive, US Vice-President J.D. Vance told a Washington event on Wednesday hosted by the … Read More

Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope were locked behind the heavy wood doors of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, sequestered from the world to elect the man they … Read More

A Finnish F/A-18 Hornet fighter jet crashed on Wednesday near the Rovaniemi airport in Finland’s Arctic north, but the pilot was rescued after ejecting, the armed forces said. The crash … Read More

Stocks rose on Wall Street on Wednesday as China steps up measures to shore up its economy and gears up for trade talks with the US. The S&P 500 index … Read More

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. China’s Xi Jinping launches … Read More

Friedrich Merz plunged straight into international crises on his first full day as Germany’s new chancellor, urging India and Pakistan to de-escalate their tensions, vowing support for Ukraine and announcing … Read More

Russia and Ukraine traded a barrage of drone strikes overnight on Wednesday, in attacks that killed two in Kyiv and forced Moscow to shut major airports hours before a swathe … Read More

Two Belgian teenagers found with 5,000 ants in Kenya were given a choice of paying a fine of US$7,700 or serving 12 months in prison – the maximum penalty for … Read More