Top 10 world news: China hits out as US lawmakers visit Taiwan and more

A COP26 climate summit draft text on Wednesday urged countries to boost emission cutting goals by 2022, three years ahead of schedule. The UKThe Supreme Court said in a statement that it "unanimously dismisses" the legal action brought by campaigners against the US-based tech giant on behalf of 4.4 million people in England and Wales.

As reports claimed US lawmakers visitedTaiwan, China blasted the move saying they were "playing with fire will result in burning themselves".

The draft said "rapid, deep and sustained reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions" were needed to avert the worst impacts of heating, which has already seen countries worldwide slammed by fiercer floods, droughts and storms.

The top court in Britain has blocked a class action against Google, accused of illegally tracking millions of iPhone users.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday said that there were 'no holy cows' in Pakistan as hewas grilled by Pakistan Supreme Court in a case related to the 2014 school massacre carried out by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror group.

Cheung Kim-hung, the chief executive officer of Hong Kong Media group Next Digital has been denied bail over the comments made by UK justice secretary Dominic Raab.

Amid tensions with India along theLine of Actual Control(LAC), China's state-run Global Times newspaper said frontline troops at the border are preparing "logistics for the upcoming winter".

Trying to halt therelease of the documents, Trump had said he hadexecutive privilege to keep the communications and visitor logs related to that day under seal as aa former president.

Japanhas detected its first outbreak of bird flu for the 2021 winter season, with confirmation of a case of "highly pathogenic avian influenza" at a poultry farm in the northeast of the country, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday.

An Australian study revealed that those who are completely vaccinated are 16 times less likely to end up in intensive care units (ICU) or die from COVID-19 than those who are not.

An American journalist detained in military-ruledMyanmaraccused of incitement is facing new charges of sedition and terrorism, his lawyer said on Wednesday, in a setback for USefforts to secure his release.