Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has built a 9.2% holding in Twitter, a regulatory filing showed on Monday, sending the micro-blogging site's shares soaring

The Ukraine war is stirring tensions in the Middle East, where two old US allies are questioning their ties because Joe Biden wants to resurrect a nuclear deal with Iran

The first audio recordings from Mars by NASA's Perseverance rover indicate that it is a quiet planet but one where sounds have different speeds, scientists said in a study published last Friday

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has said the island will ramp up the development of drones, after seeing how they had helped Ukraine resist the Russian invasion

Chinese vaccine developer CanSino Biologics said on Monday its potential Covid-19 vaccine using mRNA technology has been approved by the medical products regulator to enter clinical trials

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa called for a unity government on Monday to deal with the economic crisis, as ministers and the central bank chief offer to resign and stock trading is halted

Mineral sands group commits to the country's first refinery, boosted by a $749m loan from the federal government to counter China's dominance of the processing of rare earths

Chinese exports to Russia have been buffeted as the rouble swings in value, clear evidence of the effect Western sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine are having in China

China agreed on Wednesday to a request by Pakistan to roll over a $4.2 billion debt that was due to be repaid this week

The Caixin/Markit Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 48.1 in March, indicating the steepest rate of contraction since February 2020

Shares of 14 Chinese developers and 18 other firms were suspended from trade by Hong Kong exchange on Friday for failing to declare results; many said audits were hit by Covid curbs.

Activity in Chinese manufacturing and services simultaneously contracted in March for the first time since the height of the country's Covid-19 outbreak in 2020