More than a month after the election, top Republicans finally acknowledged Joe Biden as the next US president, a collapse in GOP resistance to the millions of voters who decisively chose the Democrat. Foreign leaders joined the parade, too, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

The EU's 27 member countries aim to start Covid-19 vaccinations on "the same day" in a sign of unity, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday.

Germany registered a record number of deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, the first day of a new partial lockdown to try and curb a surge in infections.

The Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard was charged yesterday with sex trafficking, racketeering and other crimes targeting dozens of women and underage girls over a quarter century in three countries, US authorities said.

An international coalition aiming to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic needs $28 billion, a bargain price for stopping the damage done by a virus that has run rampant for the past year, a senior UN World Health Organization (WHO) official said Tuesday.

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to pick former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm to be secretary of energy in his administration, two people familiar with the decision said on Tuesday.

Under huge pressure from Covid-19, climate change and natural destruction, warning lights for the planet and societies are “flashing red” - and now is the time to choose a safer, fairer path for human development, the United Nations said yesterday.

A record number of journalists were behind bars this year, a US-based watchdog said yesterday, accusing governments worldwide of suppressing the media and fueling misinformation amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

A fire ripped through an overcrowded retirement home in central Russia overnight, killing 11 vulnerable people as the blaze swept through the small wooden building, investigators said yesterday.

A deputy governor of Kabul province and his aide were killed yesterday by a bomb in the Afghan capital, officials said, the latest in a wave of targeted killings in the country.

The United States on Monday removed Sudan from its state sponsors of terrorism blacklist and declared a “fundamental change” in relations, less than two months after the Arab nation pledged to normalise ties with Israel.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will travel to India next month in his first major bilateral visit to another country since taking power last year, his office said yesterday.

The United States imposed long-anticipated sanctions on Turkey on Monday over Ankara’s acquisition of Russian S-400 air defense systems, further complicating already strained ties between the two Nato allies.

The European Union was scheduled to unveil tough draft rules targeting tech giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook, whose power Brussels sees as a threat to competition and even democracy.

International Criminal Court prosecutors have rejected calls by exiled Uighurs to investigate China for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity, the chief prosecutor’s office said in a report on Monday.

The United States kicked off a mass vaccination drive Monday hoping to turn the tide on the world’s biggest coronavirus outbreak, as the nation’s death toll passed a staggering 300,000.

Boko Haram yesterday claimed it was behind the abduction of hundreds of students in northwestern Nigeria, in what appears to be a major expansion of the jihadist group’s activities into new areas.

Eminent researcher of Bangla folk culture and writer Sudhir Chakravarti died in a private hospital in Kolkata. He was 86 years old.

Tokyo district court sentenced a man to death for the 2017 murders of nine people, local media has reported, ending a case that grabbed headlines in Japan with the culprit dubbed “Twitter killer” for contacting victims via the social media platform.

The deputy governor of the Afghan capital of Kabul was killed on Tuesday in a bomb attack on his car as he went to work, security officials said.