SOCIETY

Hundreds of people took to the streets in China's major cities on Sunday in a rare outpouring of public anger against the state.

AFP saw multiple people arrested as officers told demonstrators to leave the area.

At the G20 summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping scolded Trudeau in an unusual public dressing-down, caught on video.

British property market activity stalled in October and house price growth slowed to its lowest quarterly level since February 2020 due to a disastrous "mini-budget" and a cost-of-living crisis, a survey released on Monday showed.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to promise on Monday to maintain or increase military aid to Ukraine next year, and to confront international competitors "not with grand rhetoric but with robust pragmatism".

A woman's TikTok video describing her husband's death as she dances to Meghan Trainor's upbeat track "Made You Look" has attracted heavy backlash.

A teenage rape survivor in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh set herself ablaze after being harassed by her rapists.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the United Nations Security Council to act against Russia over air strikes on civilian infrastructure that have again plunged Ukrainian cities into darkness and cold as winter sets in.

Ukraine's security service said Wednesday it had seized "pro-Russian literature", cash and interrogated dozens during raids of several Orthodox monasteries that spurred a backlash from the Kremlin.

A former priest has pleaded guilty to charge of obscenity after he was caught filming a threesome at his church in Pearl River.

In a shocking case of suspected honour killing, a 21-year-old girl was shot dead by her father at their house in India's capital, New Delhi.

Australian police have managed to identify a serial rapist after almost 40 years.

Evelina Parker, a 22-year-old influencer from Latvia, got so drunk on her first date that she and her date ended up flying to Paris.

The two-day visit sees Charles finally presiding over proceedings after decades playing a supporting role to his mother, Elizabeth II, who died in September.

A 35-year-old woman from Canton, US, has pleaded guilty to faking her daughter's terminal cancer so she could raise money through online donations.

Arab soccer fans at the first World Cup in the Middle East are shunning Israeli journalists in Qatar trying to interview them, illustrating challenges facing wider "warm peace" ambitions two years after some Gulf states forged formal ties with Israel.

Although highly critical of the rulers in Tehran, they still proudly projected their Iranian heritage.

A woman who lost her British citizenship after joining the Islamic State group in Syria will on Monday have her case reviewed, with her lawyers arguing that she was a "victim of trafficking".

The ultraconservative Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia executed 12 people in 10 days for drug offences, according to a human rights organisation.

A 34-year-old man, Clifton Christopher Buchanan, was arrested after his four daughters disappeared last Thursday.

Ramaphosa was last in London for the state funeral of the queen at Westminster Abbey in September.

A man from the US has left the internet divided after he arrived at his own wedding in a coffin.

Some offences are punishable by the death penalty so visitors are urged to be very careful.

A man from the US was charged a whopping $4,000 just for having skin-to-skin contact with his newborn daughter.

A woman from Edinburgh was left astonished and stunned when she discovered a 135-year-old note buried under the floorboard of her house.

Dutch judges convicted two Russian men and a Ukrainian man in absentia of murder for their role in the shooting down of Flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014 with the loss of 298 passengers and crew, and handed them life sentences.

Iranian security forces opened fire on anti-hijab protesters and beat women in capital Tehran.

A 50-year-old Chinese man smoked his way through a marathon and managed to finish it in 3 hours and 28 minutes.

The APEC summit caps an intense fortnight of diplomacy in Asia, following the G20 and a gathering of Association of Southeast Asian Nations leaders in Phnom Penh last week.