The United States is conducting two military exercises in Asian waters this week involving allies Japan, Australia and India, the US navy said yesterday.

Climate change is starving polar bears into extinction, according to research published Monday that predicts the apex carnivores could all but disappear within the span of a human lifetime.

An Afghan girl shot dead two Taliban fighters and wounded several more after they dragged her parents from their home and killed them for supporting the government, officials said.

The University of Oxford’s possible COVID-19 vaccine could be rolled out by the end of the year but there is no certainty, the lead developer of the vaccine said yesterday.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was on Monday awarded a Portuguese rights award and promptly pledged the million-euro prize to groups working to

The US Commerce Department on Monday added 11 Chinese companies implicated in what it called human rights violations in connection with China’s

The top US Democrat said on Monday that Donald Trump might not like the outcome of the Nov 3 presidential election but reminded the Republican

Fears over the coronavirus will see the Nobel prize banquet cancelled for the first time in over half a century, Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter reports.

The US Justice Department has indicted two Chinese nationals for hacking defense contractors, Covid-19 researchers and hundreds of other victims worldwide.

European Union leaders have clinched an historic deal on a massive stimulus plan for their coronavirus-throttled economies after a fractious summit lasting almost five days.

British government borrowing surged to a record 128 billion pounds ($162 billion) in the first three months of the 2020/21 financial year, when COVID-19 lockdown measures were tightest, more than double the entire previous year’s borrowing.

Egypt's parliament gives President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi the green light for possible military intervention in Libya by approving the deployment of armed forces abroad to fight "terrorist groups" and "militias".

US rapper Kanye West broke down in tears on Sunday at the chaotic launch of his unlikely campaign to oust Donald Trump as president in November elections.

An aerosol-based treatment could drastically reduce the number of new coronavirus patients dying from the disease or requiring intensive care, according to preliminary results released yesterday by a British biotech firm.

Intense rain and floods in the Indian state of Assam have killed at least 84 people and displaced more than 2.75 million since May, authorities said yesterday, as they tried to collect the bodies of nine rare rhinos drowned in the past 10 days.

China yesterday warned that Britain was heading down “a wrong path” as Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was expected to announce the suspension of an extradition treaty with Hong Kong, raising tensions between the countries.

European Union (EU) heavyweight Germany yesterday said that national leaders split over a massive coronavirus stimulus plan had sketched a framework agreement that could bring a successful end to a fraught summit dragging into its fourth day.

Iran yesterday executed a former translator convicted of spying for the US and Israel, including helping to locate a top Iranian general killed later by

Sudan’s former autocratic president Omar al-Bashir, ousted amid a popular pro-democracy uprising last year, faces trial from today over the military

Saudi Arabia’s 84-year-old ruler King Salman was admitted to hospital in Riyadh yesterday for gall bladder inflammation, the royal court said,