NASA awarded billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's space company SpaceX a $2.9 billion contract to build a spacecraft to bring astronauts to the moon as early as 2024, the agency said.

British warships will sail for the Black Sea in May amid rising tensions between Ukraine and Russia, according to senior naval sources.

At least 14 rebels and one Colombian soldier have been killed in combat between guerrillas and the Andean country's military, army sources said.

The CIA made its first known attempt to assassinate a leader of the Cuban revolution in 1960, offering $10,000 to a pilot flying Raul Castro from Prague to Havana to arrange an “accident,” according to declassified documents published Friday.

President Joe Biden on Friday sought to present a united front with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to counter an increasingly assertive China as the US leader held his first face-to-face White House summit since taking office.

Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing will join a special Asean summit next week, the Thai foreign ministry said yesterday, his first official trip since masterminding a coup which deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of doing politics with dead bodies and has been trying to politicise the death of five people at Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar district during polling in the assembly elections on April 10.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of doing politics with dead bodies and has been trying to politicise the death of five people at Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar district during polling in the assembly elections on April 10.

Raul Castro confirmed he was handing over the leadership of the Cuban Communist Party to a younger generation at its congress that kicked off on Friday, ending six decades of rule by himself and older brother Fidel.

President Joe Biden signed an order on Friday limiting US refugee admissions this year to the historically low 15,000 cap set under his predecessor Donald Trump, shelving a plan to raise it to 62,500 and drawing the ire of refugee advocates and some Democratic lawmakers.

Queen Elizabeth and her family paid their last respects to Prince Philip at a funeral yesterday that celebrated his naval past, his international heritage and seven decades of service in which he helped guide the queen through repeated crises.

Two Russian warships transited the Bosphorus en route to the Black Sea today and 15 smaller vessels completed a transfer to the sea as Moscow beefs up its naval presence at a time of tense relations with the West and Ukraine.

Raul Castro said he is stepping down as Cuban Communist Party leader, leaving the island without a Castro guiding affairs for the first time in more than six decades and handing control of the party to a younger generation.

US President Joe Biden said he had a productive summit with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday and the two countries were committed to working together to meet the challenge posed by China and issues including North Korea.

Bernie Sanders and nine other Democratic senators urged President Joe Biden on Friday to back a temporary patent waiver for Covid-19 vaccines that would allow countries to manufacture treatments locally and accelerate the global vaccination effort.

The United States is preparing for the possibility that a booster shot will be needed between nine to 12 months after people are initially vaccinated against Covid-19, a White House official said on Thursday.

A group of congressional Democrats launched a daunting bid Thursday to expand the US Supreme Court from nine to 13 justices, angering Republicans who accused their rivals of attempting a power grab to enact President Joe Biden’s agenda.

A gunman shot eight people dead and injured several others at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis before taking his own life, police said early yesterday.

Heavy fighting near the Yemeni city of Marib has killed 96 combatants over the past two days as Huthi rebels press their offensive on the government’s last northern toehold, loyalist commanders said yesterday.

Heavy fighting near the Yemeni city of Marib has killed 96 combatants over the past two days as Huthi rebels press their offensive on the government’s last northern toehold, loyalist commanders said yesterday.