New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared a “climate emergency” yesterday, telling parliament that urgent action was needed for the sake of

Israel has released more than $1 billion in funds withheld from the Palestinian Authority, a Palestinian minister said yesterday, weeks after

Afghan government and Taliban representatives yesterday said they had reached a preliminary deal to press on with peace talks, their first written

A Chinese space probe yesterday began drilling on the surface of the Moon hours after landing, in an ambitious attempt to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades.

Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha, under pressure from months of street protests, yesterday survived a legal challenge over his living arrangements that could have seen him thrown out of office.

Leading Hong Kong dissident Joshua Wong was jailed alongside two other young activists yesterday for taking part in last year’s huge democracy protests as the crackdown on Beijing’s critics gathers pace.

The World Health Organization yesterday recommended wearing facemasks when indoors with other people, if the ventilation has been deemed inadequate, in an update to its Covid-19 guidance on masks.

The US attorney general rejected Republican claims of significant voter fraud in the presidential election on Tuesday, adding to the pressure on President Donald Trump to give up his quixotic effort to overturn Joe Biden’s clear victory.

Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha, under pressure from months of street protests, survived a legal challenge Wednesday over his living arrangements that could have seen him thrown out of office.

Singapore has given US start-up Eat Just the greenlight to sell its lab-grown chicken meat, in what the firm says is the world’s first regulatory approval for so-called clean meat that does not come from slaughtered animals.

Britain today became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for use and said that it will be rolled out from early next week.

A US federal judge has blocked rule changes ordered by President Donald Trump making it harder for people to get skilled-worker visas.

A four-percent drop in greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 and the green effects of the pandemic will help the EU meet two of its three 2020 climate goals, a report published Monday showed.

The Indian government yesterday offered to set up a committee to look into issues raised by farmers protesting against new farm laws, but it was rejected by representatives of 35 agitating organisations during their marathon meeting with three union ministers that ended without any resolution.

A bill requiring Iran’s government to step up uranium enrichment closer to the level needed for a nuclear weapon, and ignore other restraints on its nuclear programme agreed with major powers, cleared its first hurdle in parliament yesterday.

President-elect Joe Biden’s victories in Arizona and Wisconsin were certified on Monday, further cementing his win even as Donald Trump continues to make baseless claims of vote fraud.

The 2020 prize for Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year went to an obvious choice: pandemic. The term had the most online dictionary lookups of any word, Merriam-Webster said on its website,

Sri Lanka freed hundreds of prisoners and said it would release thousands more after a riot sparked by anger over coronavirus cases at one of its

The US Navy has decided to de-commission and scrap the USS Bonhomme Richard after a damage assessment found that restoring the ship would cost billions of dollars.

At least two people were killed and several injured when a car drove into a pedestrian zone in the southwestern German city of Trier yesterday,