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Sotheby's in Hong Kong postponed an auction of gems with ties to early Buddhism on Wednesday after opposition from India, which said the jewels were the country's religious and cultural heritage.

Visitors mill around a bright red hilltop pagoda in southwestern China, gazing down at a sprawling cigarette factory whose deadly output has put an otherwise unremarkable city on the map.

At the base of the Capitol in Washington, dozens of Mormon women gathered Tuesday for a unique type of protest: meticulously sewing together giant quilts to call on legislators to protect the US Constitution as Donald Trump gets closer and closer to ignoring it.

On a rainy day in Indonesia's capital Jakarta, three men coated in metallic paint known as the "manusia silver", or silvermen, brave the elements at an intersection near a mall to ask drivers for change.

China vowed Wednesday to defend "justice" in upcoming trade talks with the United States in Switzerland -- the two sides' first negotiations following President Donald Trump's sweeping tariff rollout that roiled global markets.

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Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz won a nail-biting second parliamentary vote Tuesday to become chancellor after losing the first round in a stunning setback.

Elon Musk's SpaceX on Tuesday received approval from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to increase the number of annual Starship rocket launches from five to 25 at its Texas base, marking a major boost for the company's ambitions.

For residents of Colombia's largest migrant camp, an already tough life is getting tougher thanks to Donald Trump's aid cuts.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told US President Donald Trump that his country was "not for sale" Tuesday as they met at the White House amid tensions on tariffs and sovereignty.

Sudan's army-aligned government on Tuesday severed diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates, accusing the Gulf state of supplying weapons used by the rival paramilitaries to strike its de facto capital.

There are currently no signs that the United States has entered a recession despite the world's largest economy recording a contraction in the first quarter, the US Treasury Secretary said Tuesday.

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz won on Tuesday a nail-biter second vote in parliament to become chancellor after he lost the first round in a stunning early setback.

The EU on Tuesday unveiled a long-promised plan to phase out its remaining gas imports from Russia by the end of 2027, a challenge given Europe's continued dependence on Russian fossil fuels.

The UK on Tuesday agreed a free trade agreement with India, its biggest such deal since leaving the European Union, after negotiations relaunched in February following US tariff threats.

Stock markets mostly dropped on Tuesday as investors awaited a US Federal Reserve interest-rate decision for signs of the outlook for the tariffs-hit economy.

A Czech court said Tuesday it blocked a multi-billion-dollar deal between Prague and South Korea's KHNP on the construction of two nuclear units following a complaint by France's EDF.

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz will face a second vote in parliament on Tuesday in his bid to become chancellor after he lost the first round in a stunning early setback.

The US trade deficit reached a new record in March, according to fresh government data published Tuesday, as imports surged ahead of President Donald Trump's "liberation day" tariff rollout.

The US Federal Reserve began a two-day discussion over interest rates Tuesday, with policymakers widely expected to pause again and wait for clarity on the economic impact of Donald Trump's tariff rollout.

A group of French members of parliament said Tuesday they wanted Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French army captain wrongly convicted for treason in 1894, to be awarded the rank of brigadier general.

Tesla sales nosedived again in Germany last month even as electric vehicle sales rose strongly, data showed Tuesday, as German drivers voted with their wallets against billionaire owner Elon Musk.

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz suffered a serious blow on Tuesday when he failed to win a parliamentary majority in the first round of voting on him becoming the next chancellor.

US food delivery app DoorDash has agreed to buy UK-based rival Deliveroo for £2.9 billion ($3.9 billion) in a deal that will expand its global reach.

A barrage of Ukrainian drones forced Russian airports, including in Moscow, to restrict flights on Tuesday -- three days before the Kremlin will hold its grand military parade on Red Square to mark the defeat of the Nazis.

US delivery service DoorDash has agreed to take over UK peer Deliveroo in a deal worth £2.9 billion ($3.9 billion), according to a joint statement on Tuesday.

The dollar rose in Asia on Tuesday fuelled by hopes for trade deals to avert Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, while equities were mixed as investors await the Federal Reserve's latest policy decision.

Kosovo influencer Tringa Kadriu sees the slimming drug Ozempic as a chance to shed excess pounds -- and she is not the only one in her Balkan nation, where more than half the population is overweight.

Drones struck the airport and targeted an army base in Port Sudan on Tuesday, officials said, the third straight day the Sudanese army-aligned government's seat of power has come under attack.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney meets Donald Trump on Tuesday for the first time since he won reelection on a pledge to stand up to the US president's tariffs and threats to annex the United States' northern neighbor.

Dutch medical device maker Philips reported a net profit for the first time in three quarters Tuesday despite weak sales in China but warned of "intensified" uncertainties due to tariffs.

The excited little girl who first touched a plane two decades ago is now flying high as the face of India's fast-modernising military and its only woman Rafale fighter pilot.