Earth’s surface was warmer last month than during any September on record, with temperatures since January tracking those of the hottest ever calendar year in 2016, the European Union’s Earth Observation Programme said yesterday.

The US, Japan and many EU nations joined a call on Tuesday urging China to respect the human rights of minority Uighurs, and also expressing concern about the situation in Hong Kong.

India reported 72,049 new cases of coronavirus yesterday, dropping from the daily highs of last month in a sign infections were peaking for now, officials and experts said.

President Donald Trump continued to defy the Covid-19 virus, disastrous opinion polls and new economic turmoil in a stormy return from hospitalization, while surging challenger Joe Biden appealed for Americans to unite against the “forces of darkness.”

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin faced a quieter day than usual yesterday after handing power to a 16-year-old as part of a campaign to promote girls’ rights.

Half of the population of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region have been displaced in clashes between Armenian forces and Azerbaijan as Russian President Vladimir Putin called for the end to a “tragedy” that shows no sign of abating.

Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty won bail yesterday, nearly a month after being arrested for allegedly buying drugs for her ex-boyfriend actor Sushant Singh Rajput, whose suicide sparked a media storm in India.

One of the most complete specimens of a T-Rex fossil in the world was sold for a record $31.8 million Tuesday by Christie’s in New York, nearly quadrupling the previous highest price for a dinosaur at auction.

In the wake of recent rape cases, the UN has expressed serious concerns over the growing violence against women in Bangladesh and called for justice.

The Saudi government has extended the validity of visa and Iqama (or work permit) for Bangladeshi expatriate workers till October 30.

Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a method for genome editing, the award-giving body said on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump, still being treated for Covid-19, abruptly ended talks with Democrats on an economic aid package on Tuesday, drawing criticism from presidential rival Joe Biden that he was abandoning Americans in the midst of a pandemic.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu yesterday criticised international efforts to tackle the Azeri-Armenian conflict over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, saying they had achieved nothing in nearly 30 years.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday called on key Asian allies to unite against China’s “exploitation, corruption and coercion” in the region, as he held talks in Tokyo.

Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children with mental health conditions are living chained up in roughly 60 countries, Human Rights Watch said yestrday.

Italy’s cabinet yesterday softened tough anti-migrant laws penned by far-right chief Matteo Salvini, making it easier for people to apply for humanitarian protection or obtain work permits.

The EU’s top court yesterday put limits on how European spy and security agencies could harvest troves of personal data, but said this could be

Maldives former vice president Ahmed Adeeb has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to graft, money laundering and

Americans are rushing to cast ballots ahead of the November election at an unprecedented pace, early voting numbers show, indicating a possible record turnout for the showdown between President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden.

Amid a flood of government spending, the global downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic will not be as bad as originally feared, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said yesterday, but she warned that the crisis is far from over as coronavirus cases surge again around the world.