Latest monthly figures add to string of recent temperature records and all but assure 2016 will be hottest year on record
Politicians who allow global warming to destroy Australia's crucial natural resources pose a bigger long-term threat to Australia than terrorism, according to leader of the Australian Greens Party, Richard Di Natale.
A record 175 countries signed here on Friday the landmark Paris climate pact to save Mother Earth from the growing menace of global warming.
India's current growth rate of 7.5 per cent is not enough as per its own requirement standard and the country has the "potential" to do "better", Union finance minister Arun Jaitley has said.
Ahead of the annual spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said it is necessary to have reforms to modernize the international economic architecture set up after World War II.
Pressure is mounting on Japan to explain itself regarding its considerable stockpiles of nuclear materials that could be weaponized and threaten the safety of the global community, against a backdrop of rising tensions in the region and a worldwide threat of increasing terrorism.
A group of round-the-world sailors dropped anchor at the eastern Chinese coastal city of Qingdao for supplies and to bring a message of social awareness about children.
Since taking office in late 2012, the current leadership of China has proposed a series of new initiatives and programs on global governance, winning extensive appreciation by international scholars and experts.
The United States is the biggest creator of crises in the world because its policies promote wars, conflicts and arms exports, Sudanese experts have said, citing the Middle East as a region where U.S. policies have created a hotbed of unrest.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday unveiled a plan to hold meetings of experts from Japan and abroad in which the world economy will be analyzed ahead of the upcoming Ise-Shima summit of the Group of Seven major powers.
China and other world economies share weal and woe together amid global economic slowdown, and it is unreasonable to put all the blames on the world's second largest economy alone.
Financial policymakers from the world's 20 major economies on Saturday pledged to use all policy tools, including monetary, fiscal and structural ones, to strengthen global recovery amid growing concerns of further downward risks.
The Chinese city of Shanghai will welcome finance ministers and central bank governors for the first major meeting of G20 this year on Friday and Saturday. It should avoid being just a talk show.
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 are expected to coordinate policy to support the fragile recovery of the global economy when they meet in Shanghai on Friday.
5G will massively speed up the Internet and unlock the Internet of Things -- making driverless cars and talking fridges a reality -- but experts warn plenty of hurdles remain.
It is groundless and unfair to blame China for the global slowdown and market volatility, and naysayers' misjudgments highlight their ignorance on the world's second-largest economy.
Emerging markets will play a greater role in the international monetary governance as a parallel system outside of the established framework seeks to limit the ripple effects of the U.S. dollar.
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