Germany's lead data protection regulator for Facebook (FB.O) is banning the social network from processing personal data from WhatsApp users because it views the messaging app's new terms of use as illegal, it said yesterday.

India’s coronavirus crisis showed scant sign of easing yesterday as international health authorities warning the country’s variant of the virus poses a global concern.

Palestinians wounded in clashes with Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound have filled the halls of an east Jerusalem hospital, where several had lost eyes after being hit by rubber bullets.

Israel and Hamas exchanged heavy fire yesterday, with at least 26 Palestinians killed in Gaza, in a dramatic escalation between the bitter foes sparked by unrest at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Eid-ul-Fitr will be on Thursday May 13 as the Shawwal moon was not sighted on Tuesday, according to the Haramain Sharifain Twitter account posting live from the Tumair observatory in Saudi Arabia.

At least 11 people have been killed and many more wounded after one or more gunmen opened fire in a school in the Russian city of Kazan, the RIA news agency reported on Tuesday, citing the emergency services ministry.

A 23-year-old Italian woman was under observation in a hospital in Tuscany after receiving six doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in error, news agency AGI reported on Monday (May 10).

The Indian government has rejected circulated information on various social media platforms which claim that the second Covid-19 wave was caused by "the testing of 5G mobile towers".

A bomb has blown up a bus in Afghanistan killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens, officials said yesterday, the latest in a series of deadly blasts that has come as foreign forces withdraw.

A leopard remained at large in eastern China yesterday after escaping from a safari park with two fellow big cats, sparking a frenzy among web-users who have shared pictures and video of the spotted felines roaming tea plantations in the area.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said yesterday he sees his final year in office as the last chance to achieve a lasting peace with North Korea, and said it was time to take action amid stalled talks over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programmes.

Interim Congress chief Sonia Gandhi yesterday demanded that the party “take note of our serious setbacks (and) put our house in order”, after yet more disappointing performances in elections.

Palestinian protesters threw rocks and Israeli police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets in clashes outside al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem yesterday, as Israel marked the anniversary of its capture of parts of the city in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

The present COVID-stricken world has been experiencing the devastating impact of this pandemic on human lives, livelihood, and economies with no confirmed end in sight.

Iran’s foreign ministry yesterday for the first time confirmed the Islamic republic is holding talks with regional rival Saudi Arabia, but said it is “too soon” to discuss the results.

Thirty people drowned when an overloaded boat capsized in central Nigeria’s Niger state, an emergency official told AFP yesterday.

Solitary bees are enjoying new digs in Barbosa, Colombia, where tiny hotels built by the Aburra Valley Metropolitan Authority provide places to rest and recover after a busy day pollinating.

More than 11,000 academics and other university staff opposed to Myanmar’s ruling junta have been suspended after going on strike in protest against military rule, a teachers’ group told Reuters.

Donald Trump encouraged the Capitol rioters and so earned his Facebook ban, but the social media giant’s rules are in “shambles” and need fixing, the co-chair of the network’s oversight panel said Sunday.

A 28-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday at the Vancouver International Airport in what Canadian authorities said was a gang-related slaying. Police were later fired on while pursuing the suspects.