The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched a $6.4 billion emergency funding appeal to reach more than 190 million children affected by humanitarian crises amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

People in video meetings will, in future, be able to feel their hands being shaken and smell coffee in their virtual space, the founder and CEO of Zoom has predicted.

Oil prices jumped around 2% on Friday, heading for a fifth week of gains, as major producers agreed on a compromise to continue some cuts to production to cope with coronavirus-hit demand even though these fell short of expectations.

Pyramids, castles, palaces: Symbols of power and status have taken many forms down the ages, and for the Vikings what really counted was the longship.

The Brunei government officially launched the 4th Brunei December Festival (BDF), with the aim to promote local tourism and consumption amid the global COVID-19 pandemic.

A Chinese spacecraft lifted off from the Moon Thursday night with a load of lunar rocks, the first stage of its return to Earth, the government space agency reported.

The European Commission will take Bulgaria and Greece to the EU Court of Justice after both countries breached air pollution limits for years despite multiple warnings, the commission said.

A Romanian cobbler who made giant shoes to help keep people apart during the first wave of COVID-19 has come up with a new line of huge winter boots to stamp out the second onslaught of the disease.

By Paul Wiseman

A family in Adelaide, Australia, have told how they came home to find a confused koala clinging onto their Christmas tree and tangled up in the lights.