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The impacts of climate change could shave up to seven percent off Kenya's economic output by 2050 compared to baseline forecasts, unless it adapts, the World Bank warned on Friday.

Authorities have evacuated more than 340,000 people and suspended work and rail services as Typhoon Noul approaches southern China, with flight cancellations announced in the financial hub of Hong Kong.

What dangers does smoke from wildfires pose? Who is most at risk? Here are some answers to health questions often asked, especially now with the fires in France and Spain.

India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on Saturday after mass youth-led protests demanded his ouster in anger over a string of irregularities in potentially life-changing exams.

Unchecked wildfires raging Saturday in France's southwest and near Spain's capital Madrid have forced 267,000 people to flee and prompted Paris to deploy its military.

Amid rows of camp beds and stacks of food supplies at a makeshift shelter in Bordeaux, thousands of tourists and locals try to regain their composure after fleeing wildfires sweeping through southwest France.

Authorities have evacuated more than 20,000 people and suspended rail services as Typhoon Noul approaches southern China, with flight cancellations announced in the financial hub of Hong Kong.

Growing up with a chronically ill mother in a remote village in India, Rema Begum aspired to become a doctor until her dream was cut short by her own tragic death.

Box office phenomenon "The Odyssey" by Christopher Nolan has been a powerful promotional tool for IMAX cinema technology, but it has also provoked a backlash online about its perceived elitism.

Paramount Skydance agreed on Friday to delay its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery while a US lawsuit seeking to block the deal moves forward.

The main international oil contract Brent North Sea fell back under $100 Friday after surging past the key milestone the previous day on escalating Middle East strikes, helping US and European stock markets stabilize.

Circumventing the US Supreme Court, President Donald Trump has found a way to resurrect his tariff wall in a fashion that analysts say could prove more durable to legal challenges.

Canada quietly inaugurated a border bridge with the United States on its own on Friday, after cancelling a joint ceremony following this week's announcement of new US tariffs on several Canadian products.

US President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to hit the European Union with tariffs and a formal trade investigation over Brussels' latest antitrust penalty against Google.

Authorities ordered new mass evacuations Friday -- with some tourists escaping on boats -- as wildfires raced through forests in southwest France and central Spain, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee or hole up indoors.

Anthropic on Friday released Claude Opus 5, a new artificial intelligence model the company says approaches the performance of its most powerful system at half the price.

Famous as a summer getaway for the likes of actors Marion Cotillard and Jean Dujardin, the Cap Ferret peninsula in southwestern France has been emptied of its usual summer crowds by the wildfires, with more than 40,000 people moved by road and sea.

British sprinter CJ Ujah has denied being involved in an alleged cryptocurrency fraud.

The worst wildfire in the Madrid region's history raged west of the Spanish capital on Friday, forcing authorities to evacuate or order around 26,000 people to remain indoors.

The main international oil contract Brent North Sea fell back under $100 Friday after surging past the key milestone the previous day on escalating Middle East strikes, helping US and European stock markets stabilise.

Talks between the Indian government and leaders of the youth-led "Cockroach" movement failed to make headway Friday, as protesters gathered in the nation's capital to push for an overhaul of the education system.

As Europe ramps up its rearmament drive, US aerospace giant Boeing is seeking a foothold in the emerging market for autonomous fighter aircraft, showcasing its capabilities at the Farnborough airshow this week.

MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, announced the expansion of its Ondo tokenized stock offerings as part of its collaboration with Ondo Finance, with the addition of four new tokenized U.S. stocks spanning AI infrastructure and mining companies. The latest additions broaden users' access to some of today's most closely watched investment themes.

Ukraine has hit the warehouses of Russia's largest online retailer Wildberries -- Moscow's equivalent of Amazon -- at least three times in a week, killing several employees, causing fires and business losses.

The United Nations on Friday called for the safe evacuation and repatriation of some 6,000 sailors stuck in a "dire humanitarian and human rights crisis" in the Strait of Hormuz.

The main international oil contract Brent North Sea fell back under $100 Friday after surging past the key milestone the previous day on escalating Middle East strikes.

Volkswagen said Friday that net profit fell by a third in the second quarter as the crisis-hit carmaker -- weighing up to 100,000 job cuts worldwide -- grappled with increasing competition in and from China.

Luggage-clad residents and tourists fled a French peninsula by boat and the smell of smoke drifted into parts of Madrid on Friday as wildfires swept through parts of western Europe, triggering states of emergencies and calls for EU help.

A South Korean court ordered an AI chip-manufacturing tycoon on Friday to make a trimmed-down $644 million divorce payment to his former wife.

Volkswagen said Friday that its net profit plunged in the second quarter as the crisis-hit carmaker, weighing up to 100,000 job cuts worldwide, grapples with increasing competition in and from China.

Leaders of India's youth-led "Cockroach" movement said they would meet the government on Friday after Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged legal reforms and swift punishment for those involved in exam paper leaks.

Asian markets sank Friday to track a selloff on Wall Street as world markets are battered by a perfect storm of the resurgent Middle East war, a spike in oil prices back past $100 and worries about the AI investment boom.