The US State Department on Friday said it has ended five cultural exchange programs with China, calling them “soft power propaganda tools.”

Eighteen miners were confirmed dead yesterday after a carbon monoxide leak at Diaoshuidong coal mine in the city of Chongqing in

In a rebuke to President Donald Trump’s administration, a judge on Friday ordered the US government to reopen to first-time applicants a

President Emmanuel Macron has denied claims that freedoms are being eroded in France under his rule as a “big lie”, with controversy intensifying over a new security law.

Donald Trump’s campaign said it filed a lawsuit in Georgia state court on Friday seeking to invalidate the presidential election results there, the latest in a series of legal challenges aimed at reversing his loss that have so far gone nowhere.

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said on Friday a resolution to a bitter dispute with Qatar seemed “within reach” after Kuwait announced progress towards ending a row that Washington says hampers a united Gulf front against Iran.

President Donald Trump has ordered the removal of most US military and security personnel from Somalia, where they have been conducting operations against the al-Shabaab militant group, the Pentagon said Friday.

Argentina’s Senate passed a tax on about 12,000 of the country’s richest people on Friday, to pay for coronavirus measures including medical supplies and relief for the poor and small businesses.

Next year is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe, top UN officials told the 193-member UN General Assembly on Friday.

A 15-year-old Czech boy on Friday survived a fall from the 19th floor of a block of flats in Prague, police, rescuers and media said.

Chinese scientists have created the world's first light-based quantum computer that can reliably demonstrate "quantum computational advantage", a milestone in which a quantum machine can solve a problem no classical supercomputer can tackle within a reasonable amount of time.

China has planted its flag on the Moon, becoming only the second nation to do so after the US, reports BBC.

Terming Turkey’s policy as “hostile”, French President Emmanuel Macron has said he is working with Egypt to stabilise the tensions in the Mediterranean.

President-elect Joe Biden is facing increasing pressure to expand the racial and ideological diversity in his choices for Cabinet and other top jobs. A month and a half before he takes office, he’s drawing rebukes from activists who fear he’ll fall short on promises to build an administration that looks like the country it governs.

A mysterious metal monolith, which recently emerged on top of a mountain in California near the town of Atascadero, has been torn down by a group of young men claiming to be Christians.

MPs on Friday said the Bank of England’s needed to be “more concerned” after it emerged that as much as £50 billion ($67.4bn) in cash was unaccounted for.

Moscow on Saturday began vaccinating workers at high risk of becoming infected with the coronavirus at newly opened clinics across the city.

China has conducted tests on its army in the hope of creating biologically enhanced soldiers, according to the top intelligence official in the US.

A 140-member contingent of Bangladesh Police left Dhaka by a chartered aircraft last night to join a UN peacekeeping mission in Bamako, the capital of Mali.

A 15-year-old Colorado high school student and young scientist who has used artificial intelligence and created apps to tackle contaminated drinking water, cyberbullying, opioid addiction and other social problems has been named Time Magazine’s first-ever “Kid of the Year.”