The Indian National Congress is likely to appoint a panel of senior leaders to assist interim chief Sonia Gandhi till she is at the helm of affairs, for though the party maintains all is well but the discontent, evinced by a letter seeking a leadership change, may not have been fully doused.

President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans opened their national convention on Monday by painting a dire portrait of America if Democrat Joe Biden wins the White House in November, arguing he will usher in an era of radical socialism and chaos.

Families of victims gunned down at two New Zealand mosques urged a judge to impose the toughest possible sentence, life without parole, on the gunman as he showed no remorse and appeared to smirk at one survivor during a sentencing hearing yesterday.

Israeli tanks and aircraft carried out new strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza overnight in response to the launch of so-called fire balloons across the border, the army said yesterday.

Rescue workers in western India yesterday pulled a toddler alive from the rubble of an apartment building some 20 hours after it collapsed killing at least five people.

Authorities in Kenosha, Wisconsin, are readying for a third night of unrest after arsonists have torched much of the city’s Black business district following the shooting of a Black man in the back by police.

The independent Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for Polio Eradication has declared the region free of endemic wild polio, four years after the last case was recorded in Nigeria.

The tourism global industry has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, with $320 billion lost in exports in the first five months of the year and more than 120 million jobs at risk, the UN chief said Tuesday.

A Hong Kong man who recovered from Covid-19 has been infected again four-and-a-half months later in the first documented instance of human re-infection, researchers at the University of Hong Kong say.

Twin blasts including a suicide bombing have killed 15 people and wounded 75 others on a restive southern Philippine island, among them security forces and civilians, with Islamist militants suspected of being behind the attack.

Police have shot a Black man in the back multiple times in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in front of his three sons, sparking a night of unrest during which protesters hurled firebombs and drawing condemnation from the governor.

Qatar’s massive migrant workforce is still being exploited by employers who withhold wages, threaten expulsion, and deduct pay, leaving some staff unable to eat, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

The German government said yesterday it is “fairly likely” that Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who is currently being treated in a Berlin hospital, was poisoned.

The white supremacist who murdered 51 Muslims in last year’s New Zealand mosques shooting showed no emotion yesterday as distraught survivors confronted him in court with harrowing accounts of the atrocity.

Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said on Sunday that “sabotage” was the cause of an explosion that damaged the Natanz nuclear facility last month.

Kellyanne Conway, a long-serving advisor to President Donald Trump known for sparring with reporters, announced Sunday she will step down to focus on her family.

Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan is back at work filming India’s version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” following a bout of Covid-19, while authorities eased coronavirus curbs on movie and TV shoots.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Sunday he blames Donald Trump for “walking away” as Covid-19 ravaged the country, in a televised interview alongside running mate Kamala Harris on the eve of the Republican convention.

Protests erupted in Kenosha in the US state of Wisconsin after police shot an apparently unarmed Black man multiple times in the back, according to the state governor, prompting authorities to impose a curfew.

India’s top opposition leader Sonia Gandhi was today urged by Congress party’s highest decision-making forum to stay on as the party's interim president and to bring about necessary changes to strengthen the organisation.