Sales of EVs and plug-in hybrids were up 20% in August over last year – a fair rise given sales in Europe were the worst since early 2023

The pact laid out guidelines like all use of AI in the military would be "ethical and human-centric,” and that AI will never control “nuclear weapons employment”

A top US scientist says the world is "miles from where we should be" on curbing methane emissions. Far greater funds and activity is needed to reduce emissions, which he said were "accelerating".

In return, Russia was helping China develop military technologies such as submarines, aeronautics missiles, a top US official said

US inflation, currency and rate moves, and the fallout from the first US presidential race TV debate all weighed on investor sentiment on Wednesday

Korean engineers accused of using Samsung chip tech to make 20nm memory chips at a plant in southern China. The $3.2bn case has led to calls for tougher penalties for theft of 'critical tech'

The phone can fold three ways like an accordion screen door and comes with a keyboard attachment that can fit in a user's pocket

Parents want their kids off devices, according to the PM, who said the government would introduce minimum age laws for social media later this year

Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa ask ICC to recognise 'ecocide' as an international crime; with companies and executives punished for severe cases of environmental degradation

Investors were in cautious mood ahead of Wednesday’s latest US inflation figures while China’s woes also distracted traders

Since last year, multiple reports have raised concerns about the authenticity and integrity of oil firms' emissions reduction projects in China — which in one case was actually chicken farm, according to a whistleblower

Excess capacity and a lack of domestic demand threaten to create a vicious cycle within China’s economy where lower employment and wages could lead to a further fall in private consumption