French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday said that Belarus’s leader Alexander Lukashenko must step down, after the EU refused to recognise him as the legitimate president of the ex-Soviet country.

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said he expects “personal attacks and lies” from Donald Trump in their first televised debate tomorrow, comparing the Republican president to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.

Sri Lanka has shipped back to Britain 21 container-loads of waste that the government said was brought into the island in violation of international laws governing the shipping of hazardous material.

Forty-five years after founding his fashion group, Giorgio Armani has come up with a new way of showing his latest catwalk creations - a prime-time TV show.

The bodies of two Palestinian fishermen who Palestinian officials say were shot dead by Egyptian naval forces were returned to Gaza, the territory’s ruling Islamist group Hamas has said.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is poised to retain power at next month’s election, a widely watched poll has showed, although it said a recent Covid-19 outbreak has dented her support slightly.

US Senate Republicans on Sunday prepared a concerted push toward quickly confirming President Donald Trump's third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, despite strenuous objections by Democrats who appear powerless to stop them.

Qatar Airways reported a loss of 7 billion riyals ($1.92 billion) on Sunday for the year ending March 31, as the coronavirus crisis hurt the aviation industry around the world.

Texas officials on Saturday lifted a warning for all but one Houston-area community to stop using tap water because it might be tainted with a deadly brain-eating microbe.

Sixteen workers died and one is in a critical condition after being trapped underground in a coal mine in south-west China on Sunday (Sept 27), reported state broadcaster CCTV.

President Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, and she pledged to become a justice in the mold of the late staunch conservative Antonin Scalia, setting another milestone in Trump’s rightward shift of the top US judicial body.

The death toll from the crash of a Ukrainian air force plane carrying mostly cadets in the east of the country climbed to 23 yesterday, emergency services said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday made a strong case for India’s inclusion as a permanent member of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and asked how long will his country be “kept out of the decision-making structures” of the global body.

Judge Amy Coney Barrett, whom US President Trump possibly picked to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s US Supreme Court seat, is a darling of conservatives for her religious views, but detractors warn her appointment would shift the nation’s top court firmly to the right.

Lebanon’s prime minister-designate quit yesterday after trying for almost a month to line up a non-partisan cabinet, dealing a blow to a French bid aimed at rallying sectarian leaders to tackle the worst crisis since the nation’s 1975-1990 civil war.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday insisted that any nation that develops a Covid-19 vaccine share it universally, warning that history will be a “severe judge” if not.

India slammed Pakistan at the 75th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) yesterday saying that the rules and legislation brought in the Jammu and Kashmir are internal affairs of the country after Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan called India’s Hindu-nationalist government a sponsor of hatred and prejudice against Islam.

With just 39 days until the US election, President Donald Trump ramped up his campaigning with back-to-back events Friday in battleground states -- a frenetic pace in contrast with the more sedate approach of Democratic rival Joe Biden.

Lebanon's premier-designate stepped down Saturday, saying he had been unable to form a reform-minded government to lift the country out of its worst economic crisis in decades.

President Donald Trump intends to name Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, US media reported Friday, who if confirmed would cement a solid conservative majority on the high court.