US President Donald trump said on Friday that he was planning to sign an executive order as soon as Saturday banning Chinese-owned short-video app TikTok from the United States.

Muslims around the world are celebrating the festival with millions amid coronavirus pandemic.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has denied that a charity picked by the government to manage a major student grant program received preferential treatment, although it had ties to his family.

An estimated 2.8 million Muslims living in the UK, including half a million strong Bengali community, have celebrated the holy festival of Eid-ul-Azha with family members in a limited manner as coronavirus lockdowns remain and new restrictions have been introduced in the northern cities of England.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday postponed a planned easing of the coronavirus lockdown in England after a rise in infections amplified fears of a second deadly surge in Covid-19 cases.

At least 18 people, including Afghan security forces personnel, have been killed in a suspected car-bombing in eastern Afghanistan, hours before a three-day ceasefire was to begin in the country for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, officials said.

Leading Hong Kong democracy campaigners were disqualified yesterday from upcoming elections after four student activists were arrested for social media posts, sparking warnings of a new “terror” under authoritarian China.

This year’s downsized hajj may prove to be the safest ever despite the ever-present threat posed by the novel coronavirus.

Senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra yesterday vacated her official bungalow at Delhi’s posh Lodhi Estate area before the deadline specified in a July 1 eviction order.

The biggest party in Malaysia’s ruling coalition yesterday said it will withdraw from a political alliance with the prime minister but will continue to support the government, potentially undermining the stability of his administration.

A US court of appeals on Wednesday ruled that actress Ashley Judd has the right to pursue her sexual harassment lawsuit against disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, overturning a lower court’s decision.

Nasa’s latest Mars rover Perseverance launched yesterday on an astrobiology mission to look for signs of ancient microbial life -- and to fly a helicopter-drone on another world for the first time.

Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook are too powerful and will likely emerge from the coronavirus pandemic even stronger, the head of a US congressional antitrust committee said Wednesday.

Up to 800 million children around the world are being poisoned by lead from water and air pollution, the United Nations warned yesterday in a special report on the “massive and previously unknown” health crisis.

China yesterday accused the United States of stoking a new Cold War because certain politicians were searching for a scapegoat to bolster support ahead of the US presidential election in November.

The United States has urged Pakistan to take action over the killing of an American national in a crowded courtroom as he faced trial for blasphemy.

US President Donald Trump today raised the possibility of delaying the nation's November 3 presidential election despite its date being enshrined in the US Constitution, drawing immediate objections from Democrats.

Nearly one in three children around the world have high levels of lead in their bloodstream, according to a new study, as widespread lead pollution puts millions of young people at risk of irreversible mental and physical damage.

Populations of migratory river fish collapsed by 76 percent on average in the last 50 years, according to a report by conservation groups Tuesday, warning the “catastrophic” declines could impact people and ecosystems everywhere.

A man accused of blasphemy for claiming that he was a prophet has been shot dead in a courtroom in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police officials say, the latest violence associated with Pakistan’s strict blasphemy laws.