Trade unionists maintain that zero-hours contracts hand the employer total control over workers' hours and earning power.

A New Zealand airport has imposed a three-minute limit on farewell hugs, sparking a worldwide debate over how long to cling ...

Italian priest Davide Marcheselli has been fighting for years against Chinese companies illegally mining gold in the town of ...

Taiwanese chipmaking giant TSMC halted shipments to a customer this month after its semiconductors were sent to China's ...

French luxury group Hermes posted Thursday a jump in third quarter sales, bucking the overall gloom in the sector caused by ...

King Charles III took part in a traditional kava-drinking ceremony before a line of bare-chested and heavily tattooed Samoans ...

A newly published report by HYPR, an Identity Assurance Company, has uncovered a key trend: identity-related cyberattacks are ...

Lebanon state media said Israel strikes on Wednesday pounded Beirut's southern suburbs, including a vacated office belonging ...

For Nobel economics prize winner Simon Johnson, giving too much power to a handful of billionaires will come at the expense ...

Asian markets were mixed Thursday following steep losses on Wall Street as a spike in US Treasury yields led investors to ...

New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's snap election gamble could backfire this Sunday, with his ruling party at risk ...

The London trial is determining liability in the 2015 Brazil dam collapse - Copyright AFP/File Elijah Nouvelage, Geoff Robins ...