Russia carried out its second big attack onUkraine's energy infrastructure this month on Thursday, cutting power to at least 1 million people across three western regions of the country, officials said.

As nations negotiate a binding global treaty to tackle plastic pollution, the pressure from industry is to focus more on recycling. But with some figures estimating only nine per cent of plastic is recycled, what are the solutions?

British lawmakers are set to vote on an assisted dying bill that many say could turn out like Canada's medical assistance in dying program, for better or for worse.

Preliminary findings from a randomized trial of 300 patients across seven countries shows that used pacemakers, when properly sterilised and implanted, work just as well as new ones, and pose no greater risk of infection.

Amid renewed interest in the killing of JonBent Ramsey triggered in part by a new Netflix documentary, police in Boulder, Colo., refuted assertions this week that there is viable evidence and leads about the 1996 killing of the six-year-old girl that they are not pursuing.

South Korea's capital was blanketed on Wednesday by the heaviest snowfall in Seoul during November on record, with bad weather snarling traffic, knocking out power and grounding hundreds of flights as authorities braced for more snow in coming days.

Sweden is asking a Chinese vessel to return to Swedish waters to help facilitate an investigation into recent breaches of undersea fibre-optic cables in the Baltic Sea, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Tuesday, but stressed he was not making any accusations. German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said he assumed it was sabotage.

The ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah militants began early Wednesday as a region on edge wondered whether it will hold.