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Pattaya's Colour Nail salon was packed on Thursday morning, with no empty burgundy lounger in sight. Sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln, both male and female, filled the chairs for pedicures to unwind after a demanding deployment. Arisa Suekkanya, a salon employee, said she was pleased the US

Two psychiatrists in New Zealand received approval on Friday to prescribe pharmaceutical-grade MDMA to individuals with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The decision by New Zealand’s pharmaceutical regulatory body Medsafe makes the country the second worldwide to approve the party drug for use in treating PTSD, following

Russia’s suspected sabotage campaign across Europe appears to be gathering pace again, confronting governments with a problem they have struggled to solve since the start of the war in Ukraine: how to impose a meaningful cost on Moscow for attacks that remain deliberately below the threshold of conventional war.

Argentine President Javier Milei has said "winds of change favourable" to Argentina's claim to the Falkland Islands were "blowing around the world" in a televised address, citing signs that US President Donald Trump might reconsider the US position on the islands' sovereignty. "

Gloria Steinem, who has died aged 92, was a writer, community organiser, political campaigner and a charismatic feminist activist who described herself as "an entrepreneur of social change." She spent much of her life on the road, often accompanied by equally committed fellow campaigners. Steinem loathed public speaking,

Israelis have killed two teenagers in a Palestinian village surrounded by settlers, and Israeli troops have demolished an entire village outside Hebron, in the latest incidents of a wave of Israeli violence and displacement across the occupied West Bank. The shooting victims were identified as Khalil Abu Alia, 16, who