Astronauts blasting off yesterday for China’s first crewed mission to its new space station will have a choice of 120 different types of food and “space treadmills” for exercise, China’s space agency said.

Several Republican lawmakers, eager to blame a US government official for the response to the coronavirus pandemic, introduced a bill Tuesday to fire Anthony Fauci, the face of American efforts to combat Covid-19.

Kim Jong Un has admitted that North Korea’s food situation is “tense”, state media reported yesterday, sounding the alarm in a country that suffered a devastating famine in the 1990s in which hundreds of thousands died.

British barrister Karim Khan, 51, took over as the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor yesterday with a pledge to improve its track record by taking only its strongest cases to trial.

Maida Bilal endured being beaten and harassed when she spent more than 500 days guarding the site of a planned mini hydropower plant on Bosnia’s Kruscica River with a team of women from her village before the building permits were annulled.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin square up on Wednesday for their first meeting since Biden took office with deep disagreements likely and expectations low for any breakthroughs.

Israel mounted air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, the first since the end of 11 days of cross-border fighting last month, in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian territory.

A car bomb exploded inside a military base in the Colombian border town of Cucuta on Tuesday, leaving 36 people injured, including three in critical condition, officials said.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will “never cooperate” with an International Criminal Court probe into the country’s deadly drug war, his spokesman said yesterday, branding the process “legally erroneous”.

Covid vaccine-maker AstraZeneca yesterday revealed it had hit a setback in trials of a treatment for the coronavirus.

The tipping point for irreversible global warming may have already been triggered, the scientist who led the biggest-ever expedition to the Arctic warned yesterday.

UN rights experts have said they had “credible information” that detainees from minority communities in China may be being subjected to forced organ harvesting, a claim fiercely rejected by Beijing.

Nato leaders has declared China a constant security challenge and said the Chinese are working to undermine global order, a message in sync with President Joe Biden’s efforts to get allies to speak out with a more unified voice against China’s trade, military and human rights practices.

At least five polio workers were shot dead in eastern Afghanistan yesterday, officials said, in the area’s second attacks on vaccinators in less than three months.

Two doses of Covid-19 vaccines are “highly effective” in preventing hospital admission with the Delta variant, Public Health England said on Monday.

US President Joe Biden on Monday assured his Nato allies that he would lay down “red lines” to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at their meeting today.

Canada is pressing terrorism charges against a man accused of mowing down a Muslim family with a pickup truck, prosecutors said Monday, in an attack denounced as “terrorist” by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Geneva on Tuesday a day ahead of his first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a Reuters witness said.

Two Indian senior opposition leaders -- Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of Congress and Bahujan Samajwadi Party supremo Mayawati -- today demanded probe into the death of a TV journalist who recently reported on the “liquor mafia” in Uttar Pradesh state.

Outgoing UN aid chief Mark Lowcock slammed the Group of Seven wealthy nations on Monday for failing to come up with a plan to vaccinate the world against Covid-19, describing the G7 pledge to provide 1 billion doses over the next year as a "small step."