Democrats in of the House of Representatives will introduce a bill next week to limit the tenure of U.S. Supreme Court justices to 18 years from current lifetime appointments, in a bid to reduce partisan warring over vacancies and preserve the court’s legitimacy.

Afghan security forces have killed 65 Taliban militants during an intense battle in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Thursday, as fighting rages between the two sides despite ongoing peace talks.

Wearing white ribbons, publicly hacking off their hair and making “Hunger Games” salutes - Thailand’s high school students are doing their best to shake up the country’s rigid education system.

A man wielding a knife seriously wounded two people in Paris yesterday in a suspected terror attack outside the former offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, three weeks into the trial of suspected accomplices in the 2015 massacre of the newspaper’s staff.

India announced local elections involving millions of voters in a densely packed state even as it reported 86,052 new infections of coronavirus on Friday and remained set to overtake the United States by next month as the world’s worst-affected nation.

Chinese authorities have demolished thousands of mosques in Xinjiang, an Australian think tank said yesterday, in the latest report of widespread human rights abuses in the restive region.

Celebrated singer S P Balasubrahmanyam died in a Chennai hospital after almost two months of treatment. He was 74. Balasubrahmanyam had been in hospital with Covid-19 complications since August 5.

More than 1,000 people defied a second night of curfew in the US city of Louisville to protest over the lack of criminal charges in the police killing of Breonna Taylor, with some seeking refuge in a church.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterday apologised for the shooting death of a South Korean man to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, the South’s national security adviser said, as public and political outrage over the killing grew.

The United States, China and Russia fought on Thursday during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the coronavirus pandemic after UN chief Antonio Guterres had warned the body that if the climate crisis was approached with the “same disunity and disarray” of COVID-19, then: “I fear the worst.”

Harley-Davidson Inc is in advanced talks with India’s Hero MotoCorp for a distribution deal which will allow the US company’s motorcycles to be sold in India, after it stops local manufacturing there, three sources have told Reuters.

At least two people have been stabbed near the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris that was attacked by Islamist militants over five years ago, in an incident anti-terrorism police are investigating.

Top Republicans and Democrats have pushed back hard against President Donald Trump's suggestion he might not accept defeat in the November election, warning him the United States is not “North Korea.”

Firefighters have said they contained about half of a massive blaze ravaging Los Angeles County for nearly a month, as a fire season that has killed dozens across the US West took another hopeful turn.

India announces local elections involving millions of voters in the densely packed Bihar state even as it remains set to overtake the United States by next month as the world’s worst-affected nation by Covid-19 pandemic.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un apologised today for the shooting to death of a South Korean man to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, the South's national security adviser said, as public and political outrage over the killing grew.

A British police officer has been shot dead by a man who was being detained at a custody centre in south London.

A group of eastern European countries yesterday rejected the EU’s new plan for handling migrants because it was not tough enough, dealing a blow to efforts to solve one of Europe’s thorniest problems.

The young violinist holding a sign reading “Strike for Climate” on a Moscow square didn’t have long to wait for the police to arrive. His one-man protest lasted just 30 minutes before he was detained this summer for the second Friday in a row.

Brazil, Germany, India and Japan have renewed their bid for permanent seats in an expanded UN Security Council, a long-sought goal without clear prospects.