Two children were injured and buildings were damaged when a ballistic missile was intercepted over Saudi Arabia’s oil-rich eastern region on Saturday, the ministry of defence said.   

More than 500,000 farmers gathered in India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh yesterday, police said, the biggest rally yet in a months-long series of demonstrations to press government to repeal three new agricultural laws. 

Four Pakistani paramilitary guards were killed yesterday when a suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up in the

Hurricane Ida’s toll rose to 12 storm deaths in Louisiana on Saturday, still far outpaced by the dozens killed in flooded Northeast

TThe family of a separatist icon from Indian-administered Kashmir has been booked for police investigation under a sweeping

Thirteen Iraqi policemen were killed in an Islamic State group attack against a checkpoint in the country’s north early yesterday,

Japan’s minister in charge of Covid-19 vaccinations is seen as the most suitable candidate to become the next prime minister,

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said Iran was ready to hold talks with world powers to revive its 2015 nuclear accord but not under Western “pressure”, adding Tehran was seeking negotiations leading to a lifting of US sanctions.

British vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi on Sunday said a decision had not yet been taken on whether healthy children aged 12- to 15-years-old should be vaccinated against COVID-19, following reports that a rollout could begin in the coming days.

Two children were injured and buildings were damaged when a ballistic missile was intercepted over Saudi Arabia's oil-rich eastern region on Saturday, the ministry of defence said.

New Zealand recorded its first Covid-related death in six months yesterday, but health authorities said there were signs the outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant was coming under control.

Britain’s vaccine advisers said they were not recommending the vaccination of all 12- to 15-year-olds against Covid-19, preferring a precautionary approach in healthy children due to a rare side effect of heart inflammation.

A White House plan to offer COVID-19 booster shots will most likely start this month only with the vaccine made by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech , a narrower initiative than anticipated, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.

The U.S. Congress is likely to finance U.N. and other agencies providing humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan but there is virtually no chance it will directly fund a new Taliban-led government, congressional aides said on Friday.

1905 - The Treaty of Portsmouth (New Hampshire) was signed, ending the Russo-Japanese War. Russia ceded Port Arthur to Japan.

The Brunei diplomat appointed by a Southeast Asian regional bloc as its special envoy to Myanmar said he is still negotiating

A US judge has ruled that artificial intelligence can’t get a patent for its creations, ruling that such a privilege is reserved for

Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and five cabinet ministers comfortably survived a vote of no confidence in

Washington must understand that it has no other choice but to abandon its addiction to

Facebook on Friday said it disabled its topic recommendation feature after it mistook Black men for “primates” in video at the social network.