NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance has taken its first, short drive on the surface of the red planet, two weeks after the robot science lab’s picture-perfect touchdown on the floor of a massive crater, mission managers said on Friday.

An outlawed Maoist group accused of staging several attacks signed a peace deal with Nepal’s communist government yesterday, bringing an end to the country’s only active insurgency.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee yesterday termed the coming high-stakes assembly elections in the state as the “easiest” election her party has ever faced and announced she would contest from Nandigram constituency.

Pope Francis, beginning the first trip by a pontiff to Iraq, made an impassioned call yesterday for an end to the militant violence and religious strife

Preliminary data from a study conducted at the University of Oxford indicates that the Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca PLC is effective

The UN yesterday said it was yet to see evidence from the United Arab Emirates that Dubai’s Sheikha Latifa was still alive, a fortnight after seeking

Singapore’s foreign minister yesterday said it was a “national shame” for the armed forces of a country to use weapons against their own people as he called on Myanmar’s military rulers to seek a peaceful solution to the unrest in the country.

China yesterday moved to grant itself veto powers over selecting Hong Kong’s lawmakers, part of a campaign to eliminate dissent and ensure a “patriotic” government in the city following huge democracy rallies in 2019.

Burma Campaign UK has called for all countries to halt training the Myanmar military, which has taken control of the country and is accused of severe violation of human rights.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced she will contest the upcoming assembly elections in the state from Nandigram constituency.

Police opened fire today in the Myanmar city of Mandalay on protesting opponents of a Feb. 1 military coup, killing one person, witnesses and media said.

Monday marks 110 years since a designated annual International Women’s Day was first commemorated.

The remains of a woman who went missing in the devastating 2011 Japan tsunami have been found and identified, police said today, days before the 10th anniversary of the disaster.

Alphabet Inc’s YouTube has removed five channels of Myanmar’s military-run television networks hosted on its platform in the wake of the coup in the Southeast Asian country.

At least a dozen people, including five members of a family, from Myanmar crossed over to India and took shelter in bordering north eastern state of Mizoram a month after the military in the neighbouring country toppled the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, officials said today.

Myanmar’s junta lost a tug of war over leadership of its UN mission in New York and the United States unveiled new sanctions targeting military conglomerates after the deaths of dozens of civilians protesting against last month’s coup.

Indian vets have extracted 71 kilograms (156.5 pounds) of plastic, nails and other garbage from a pregnant cow, but both the animal and her baby died.

A female doctor was killed in a bomb blast claimed by the local affiliate of the Islamic State (IS), in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad in yet another targeted hit, officials said yesterday, just days after three women media workers were gunned down in the area.

Expressing a view which is different from a decision taken by the federal government cannot be said to be seditious, India’s Supreme Court has observed.

The number of new coronavirus cases has risen in Europe after six weeks of decline, the World Health Organization said yesterday.