India’s vaccination platform to become open-source

India’s digital platform, which is powering the “world’s largest Covid-19 vaccination drive” in the country, will soon be made available to all countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today.
5 July 2021

Search back on after rest of South Florida condo demolished

Rescuers were given the all-clear to resume work looking for victims at a collapsed South Florida condo building after demolition crews set off a string of explosives that brought down the last of the building in a plume of dust.
5 July 2021

Greek economy won't close again because of COVID-19, PM says

Greece's economy would not close again because of the coronavirus pandemic if it was just to protect an unvaccinated minority, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a newspaper interview released on Sunday.
4 July 2021

Scores killed as fighting rages

Hundreds of Taliban fighters were killed in fierce battles with government forces across several provinces of Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, as Washington announced it would finish withdrawing its troops from the country by the end of August. 
3 July 2021

Aamir Khan announces divorce

Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan yesterday announced that he is splitting with his wife of 15 years, film-maker Kiran Rao. The A-list couple
3 July 2021

Covid-19 Pandemic: World battles Delta variant

Russia reported its fifth record for daily Covid-19 deaths in a row yesterday, as countries around the world rushed to contain the rapid spread of the highly contagious Delta variant. 
3 July 2021

Ten killed in Al-Shabaab attack on Mogadishu tea shop

A suicide bombing attack by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group on a crowded tea shop in Somalia's capital Mogadishu killed 10 people and wounded dozens, the government said yesterday. 
3 July 2021

More than 100 migrants rescued in Channel in one day

Over 100 migrants, including 29 children, were rescued in a single day as they tried to cross the Channel to reach the British coast on six makeshift boats on Friday, maritime authorities in France said. 
3 July 2021

Researchers trial magnetic ‘lockjaw’ against obesity

New Zealand researchers have created a weight-loss device that uses magnets to clamp a patient's jaw together -- hailing it as a new tool against obesity despite critics likening it to an instrument of medieval torture. 
3 July 2021

This day in history

1934 - Marie Curie, Polish-French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, died.
3 July 2021

Second Florida building evacuated as death toll rises to 22 in condo tower collapse

The death toll rose to 22 on Friday from the collapse of a Florida condominium tower after the remains of four more victims were found in the rubble, and local officials ordered a second residential complex evacuated after deeming it unsafe.
3 July 2021

UN warns of worsening famine, more clashes in Ethiopia's Tigray

Top UN officials warned the Security Council on Friday that more than 400,000 people in Ethiopia's Tigray were now in famine and that there was a risk of more clashes in the region despite a unilateral ceasefire by the federal government.
3 July 2021

War looms as US quits Bagram base

American troops pulled out of their main military base in Afghanistan yesterday, leaving behind a piece of the World Trade Center they buried 20 years ago in a country that the top US commander has warned may descend into civil war without them. 
2 July 2021

China’s new ICBM silo report ‘concerning’: US

The United States expressed concern on Thursday over a report that China is building more than 100 new silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles. The
2 July 2021

Quotes of the day

I'll hand over the president-ial sash to whoever wins the election cleanly, not with fraud.
2 July 2021

Tycoons’ space race

Call it a space race for billionaires: British mogul Richard Branson one-upped rival Jeff Bezos on Thursday, announcing that he too will blast beyond Earth's
2 July 2021

Six killed in J&K unrest

Five suspected rebels and a soldier were killed yesterday in the latest of a series of clashes in Indian Kashmir that have left 17 dead in two weeks, police
2 July 2021

This day in history

1904 - Theodor Herzl, Hungarian-born Zionist leader, died. In 1897 he became first president of the World Zionist Organisation
2 July 2021

‘Lone wolf’ stabs HK cop

A 50-year-old man who died after stabbing a Hong Kong police officer was a "lone wolf" attacker who had been politically "radicalised", the city's security chief
2 July 2021

Covid has created ‘ideal environment’

The United States said that the coronavirus pandemic has created an "ideal environment" for human trafficking to thrive as governments divert resources to the health crisis and traffickers take advantage of vulnerable people. 
2 July 2021