The man convicted of shooting dead Robert F Kennedy in a 1968 assassination that rocked the United States was granted parole

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday accused US President Joe Biden's administration of making the same demands as his predecessor Donald Trump in talks to revive a nuclear accord.

Residents across Louisiana’s coast Saturday were taking one last day to prepare for what is being described as a “life-altering” Hurricane Ida which is expected to bring winds as high as 140 mph (225 kph) when it slams ashore.

Hundreds of Afghan families who have been camping in searing heat at a Kabul park after the Taliban overran their provinces begged for food and shelter on Thursday, the most visible face of a humanitarian crisis unfolding in the war-torn country.

Nigerian gunmen have freed the remaining pupils from more than 100 kidnapped from an Islamic seminary in northwestern Niger State nearly three months ago, the school's head teacher said on Thursday.

Fatigue and shortness of breath still afflict many patients a year after their hospitalisation for Covid-19, according to a new Chinese study calling for a better understanding of the pandemic’s long-term health effects.

Scientists said on Wednesday they had discovered the 43 million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown amphibious four-legged whale species in Egypt that helps trace the transition of whales from land to sea.

At least three Indian states are denying passports and government jobs to people because of their social media posts or participation in protests, human rights activists said.

At least 16 workers died and more were missing after a factory fire in Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi yesterday, police said.

United States: President Joe Biden vowed to hunt down those behind the suicide bombings that killed American troops in the worst single-day loss for the Pentagon in Afghanistan since 2011. “We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay,” Biden, visibly shaken, said in a White House address during which he said evacuations of vulnerable people would continue until August 31.

1963 - Martin Luther King delivered his “I have a dream” speech to 200,000 civil rights demonstrators who had marched on Washington for jobs and freedom.

Eyes closing, voice cracking, Joe Biden physically reflected the terrible blow to his presidency from the slaying of 13 US service members during the desperate Kabul evacuation.

President Joe Biden vowed to hunt down those behind the suicide bombings that killed 12 American troops in the worst single-day loss for the Pentagon in Afghanistan since 2011.

An attack by hundreds of Boko Haram fighters on a town in Niger’s jihadist-plagued southeast killed 16 soldiers and wounded nine others, Defence Minister Alkassoum Indatou told AFP on Wednesday.

The search for the origins of the Covid pandemic that has killed millions and crippled economies is at a standstill even as time is running out, scientists charged with the task by the UN warned.

President Joe Biden gathered Wednesday with business and government leaders to discuss improving cybersecurity following high-profile attacks that raised questions about the vulnerability of so-called critical infrastructure.

Streetlights -- particularly those that use white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) -- not only disrupt insect behavior but are also a culprit behind their declining numbers, a new study carried out in southern England showed Wednesday.

The Taliban stopped an Afghan United Nations staff member as he tried to reach Kabul airport on Sunday. They searched his vehicle and found his UN identification. Then they beat him.

2001 - An Israeli missile attack killed Abu Ali Mustafa, leader of Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine, in West Bank.

53 Civil society and journalists’ organisations, including ARTICLE 19, have called on the member states of G7 to protect Afghan journalists, media workers and their families.