Xi is urging Chinese women to get pregnant for the good of the country. Here's why many are ignoring him
After decades of forcing Chinese couples to limit themselves to just one child, Beijing has now reversed course and is urging people to have more babies. The trouble is, many young people aren't interested.
Sails of iconic Paris cabaret club Moulin Rouge fall overnight
The iconic Moulin Rouge windmill in Paris is missing its sails, which fell to the ground overnight.
Overcrowded Venice introduces first payment charge for tourists
Venice has become the first city in the world to introduce a payment system for tourists in an effort to thin the crowds that throng the canals during the peak holiday season.
Joe Biden has signed the bill banning TikTok in the US over security concerns. Here's what you need to know
A ban on TikTok is now almost inevitable in the US as President Joe Biden signs legislation banning the app unless the Chinese-based parent company ByteDance sells the app to an approved buyer. Here's what you need to know.
'All sorts of corruption': Solomon Islands MPs head to hotels to pick the PM in 'extraordinary' process
An intense period of political horse-trading is underway in Solomon Islands after no political party won enough seats in last week's election to form government on its own.
'We will never forget' people of PNG: Albanese speaks at dawn service at Isurava
The prime minister tells the crowd at an Anzac Day dawn service in Papua New Guinea that Australia "will never forget" the help the country's people provided to Australian soldiers during World War II.
Sails of iconic Paris cabaret club Moulin Rouge fall overnight
The iconic Moulin Rouge windmill in Paris is missing its sails, which fell to the ground overnight.
Hamas releases hostage video of American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin, sparking protests in Jerusalem
Rachel Goldberg and Jon Polin had assumed they would never see their son again — but that changed when Hamas released a hostage video featuring a one-armed Hersh.
US secretly ships long-range ballistic missiles to Ukraine
For the first time, Ukraine has begun using long-range ballistic missiles provided secretly by the United States.
Chicago's 'rat hole' removed after city determines footpath was damaged
The imprint has been a quirk of a residential block in Chicago’s North Side for years, but it found fresh fame in January on social media platform X.
Modi accused of using 'hate speech' for calling Muslims 'infiltrators' at election rally
India's main opposition party has accused the prime minister of using "hate speech" after he called Muslims "infiltrators" at an election rally.
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While promoting her new film The Idea of You, actor Anne Hathaway described as 'gross' previous practices she's been subjected to involving chemistry auditions where she had to kiss a long list of potential co-stars, one after the other.