Tens of thousands of Belarusians chanting “Happy Birthday, you rat” and flying red-and-white opposition flags have gathered near President Alexander Lukashenko’s residence as protesters keep up pressure on the veteran leader to resign.

UN human rights experts have said that countries must continue to search for victims of enforced disappearances even during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The tweet that announced the passing away of Chadwick Boseman is now the most-liked tweet of all time.

All of the migrants on board a rescue ship funded by British street artist Banksy have been transferred to other vessels after the pink-and-white ship carrying more than 200 passengers sent an urgent call for help.

Twenty-nine people were killed and seven seriously injured when a restaurant collapsed in northern China’s Shanxi province, the country’s emergencies ministry media has said.

The death toll from the Beirut port blast has risen to 190 with more than 6,500 injured and three people missing, Lebanon’s caretaker government says in a report.

One person has been shot dead in Oregon as a large procession of supporters of President Trump clashed with Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland.

Berlin police broke up a mass protest against coronavirus curbs on Saturday and arrested 300 in the German capital after demonstrators failed to keep their distance and wear masks as instructed.

The world’s largest wetland is ablaze, but the fire is often invisible.

At least 17 people died yesterday when a restaurant in northern China collapsed, state media said, with rescuers pulling dozens of survivors from

Rescuers in Afghanistan continued to search amidst mud and rubble for missing people yesterday after flash flooding this week killed around 160

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, DC on Friday to denounce racism, protest against police brutality and commemorate the anniversary of the 1963 civil rights march when Martin Luther King Jr made his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

“Black Panther” film star Chadwick Boseman, an actor whose work celebrated African-American pioneers and culture, has died at age 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer, according to an announcement posted on Friday to his social media accounts.

The call came on Aug 18 at 1.45 pm, a little before Mr Narayana Sukla was about to settle for lunch.

Yoshihide Suga, a longtime lieutenant of Japan’s Shinzo Abe, has emerged as a strong contender to succeed him as prime minister, an outcome that would extend the fiscal and monetary stimulus that defined Abe’s nearly eight years in office.

Kamala Harris is “not competent” to be president, US President Donald Trump has said as he launched an attack on the Indian-origin senator’s credentials.

Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay has slammed a recent threat by the European Union to slap Ankara with sanctions as “hypocritical” as his country yesterday launched a new military drill off the coast of Cyprus amid tensions in the eastern Mediterranean.

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s neuroscience startup Neuralink on Friday unveiled a pig named Gertrude that has had a coin-sized computer chip in its brain for two months, showing off an early step toward the goal of curing human diseases with the same type of implant.

Death toll from Hurricane Laura in US has increased to at least 14 people after it slammed into the southern US states of Louisiana and Texas.

A rescue boat funded by British street artist Banksy has issued urgent calls for help, saying it is stranded in the Mediterranean and overloaded with migrants who it has been unable to bring ashore.