Still irate and bitter one month after his election defeat to Joe Biden, Donald Trump is openly musing about a second run at the US presidency in 2024.

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was remanded into custody yesterday after being charged with fraud, the latest in a string of prosecutions brought

Japan wants to ban sales of new petrol cars in around 15 years’ time as part of efforts to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, reports said yesterday. The

Former French president Valery Giscard d’Estaing, a leading advocate of European integration who led his country into a new modern era, has died of

A Chinese space probe sent to gather material from a previously unexplored part of the moon has completed its mission and is preparing to send back

The United States will block imports of cotton it says are harvested with “slave labor” in China’s Xinjiang region, authorities have announced.

From small island states to urbanised powerhouses, every country on Earth faces “multiplying and intensifying” threats to human health as climate change renders future pandemics and system collapses ever more likely, a major study concluded yesterday.

Indian film superstar Rajinikanth yesterday became the latest in a long line of big-name actors to enter politics.

French authorities are set to raid dozens of mosques and prayer halls suspected of radical teachings as part of a crackdown on extremists following a spate of attacks, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has said.

Facebook Inc on Thursday said it would remove false claims about COVID-19 vaccines that have been debunked by public health experts, following a similar announcement by Alphabet Inc’s YouTube in October.

Bahrain’s imports from Israel will not be subject to distinctions between products made within Israel and those from settlements in occupied territory, the Bahraini trade minister has said, drawing a rebuke from the Palestinians.

Almost 1.5 million people have so far died globally from the Covid-19 disease related to the coronavirus, and some 63 million people have been infected. As 2020 heads to its close, vaccines are on the horizon. There is hope that some aspects of life as we knew it will return.

Describing the fight against the climate crisis as the top priority for the 21st Century, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged to take climate action and ‘make peace with nature’.

The Interpol global police co-ordination agency warned on Wednesday that organised criminal networks could be targeting COVID-19 vaccines, and could look to sell fake shots.

President-elect Joe Biden will not remove Christopher Wray as FBI director if he is still in the job when the Democratic president takes office, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing a senior Biden official.

More than 1,000 Chinese researchers have left the United States amid a US crackdown on alleged technology theft, top US security officials said on Wednesday, adding that Chinese agents had already been targeting the incoming Biden administration.

The US hopes to have immunized 100 million people against Covid-19 by the end of February, a top official said Wednesday, which is approximately 40 percent of the country's adult population.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a large-scale voluntary vaccination programme against Covid-19 to begin next week across Russia, saying teachers and doctors should be first in line to get the country’s flagship Sputnik V vaccine.

Israel’s precarious coalition government was set to move closer towards collapse yesterday with lawmakers expected to approve a preliminary measure

Japan will give free coronavirus vaccines to all of its residents under a bill passed yesterday, as the nation battles record numbers of daily cases. The