AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine should be given in two doses with an interval of 8 to 12 weeks, and should also be used in people aged 65 and older, a World Health Organization (WHO) panel said.

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck the South Pacific region, triggering tsunami warnings and calls for residents to avoid beaches and shore areas.

Dozens of angry and desperate relatives of about 30 people trapped in a tunnel since a glacier disaster in India jostled with police yesterday as hopes faded that they would be found alive.

North Korea has stolen more than $300 million worth of cryptocurrencies through cyberattacks in recent months to support its banned nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, a confidential UN report said.

New Zealand’s parliament backed down yesterday after ejecting a Maori lawmaker because he refused to wear a tie, allowing him to speak without an accessory he labelled a “colonial noose”.

Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas said Tuesday they had agreed on “mechanisms” for forthcoming elections and to respect their outcome, after years of bitter divisions.

An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 struck southeast of Loyalty Islands yesterday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said.

An uncrewed Chinese spacecraft yesterday successfully entered orbit around Mars after a 6-1/2-month journey from Earth, China’s space agency said, in the country’s first independent mission to the red planet.

A WHO expert sent to China to probe the coronavirus hit out at US intelligence on Covid-19 as his team headed home with few answers about the origin of a pandemic that was forcing more clampdowns in some of the hardest-hit parts of the world.

Protesters returned to the streets of Myanmar yesterday despite the shooting of a young woman the previous day, with some deploying humour to emphasise their peaceful opposition to this month’s military takeover.

The UN Security Council on Tuesday failed to agree on a joint declaration on war-torn Syria, capping a day of negotiations in which the organization’s special envoy to the country called to jump-start the deadlocked peace process.

At least two people, including a local police chief, were killed after multiple bomb blasts rocked the Afghan capital early yesterday, officials said.

US social media giant Twitter locked horns with India yesterday saying a government order to remove some accounts was not consistent with Indian law while politicians urged followers to switch to rival local app Koo.

A Thai court has denied bail to four prominent democracy activists after they were indicted for violating the kingdom’s royal defamation law -- the first formal charges laid against the leaders of a movement calling for reforms to the monarchy.

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said it carried out a drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport which the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi forces in Yemen said caused a fire in a civilian aircraft.

North Korea and Iran resumed cooperation on the development of long-range missiles in 2020, according to a UN report that also confirmed Pyongyang continues to violate various nuclear resolutions.

President Joe Biden signaled he would seek to deepen the close US relationship with India in his first talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he added climate change and “democratic” values to the agenda.

The 2020-2021 La Nina phenomenon has passed its peak, the UN weather agency said yesterday, but its impact on temperatures, rain and storm patterns is set to continue.

Arab foreign ministers has reaffirmed their commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning against “any unilateral moves” by Israel.

The number of new births in China plummeted 15% in 2020 from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Public Security, with the onset of the novel coronavirus disrupting the economy and weighing on decisions to have a family.