Can’t embrace friends and family these days? Hug a tree instead. That is the message Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority is spreading on social media

Taliban militants clashed with security forces following a car bomb blast at a government compound in northern Afghanistan yesterday, killing ten people and wounding dozens more, officials said.

Hours after Indian state Rajasthan’s Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot declared open rebellion and claimed that the Ashok Gehlot government in the state is in minority, central Congress leader Avinash Pande yesterday said 109 MLAs have signed a letter of support to the chief minister.

Noted Bangladeshi photojournalist and founder of Pathshala Media Institute Shahidul Alam has been announced as one of the winners of the 2020 International Press Freedom Awards.

Global coronavirus infections have passed 13 million, according to a Reuters tally, marking another milestone in the spread of the disease which has killed more than half a million people in seven months.

Poles yesterday voted in a knife-edge presidential run-off between a populist incumbent closely allied with US President Donald Trump and a

China yesterday raised its flood response alert to the second highest grade as downpours continued to batter regions along the Yangtze River, with the

Iran said that the misalignment of an air defence unit’s radar system was the key “human error” that led to the accidental downing of a Ukrainian

A tuberculosis vaccine routinely given to children in countries with high rates of that bacterial disease might be helping to reduce deaths from COVID-19, researchers reported in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A total of 180 educational institutions in the United States joined a lawsuit opposing the new visa policy for international students by the Trump administration, according to a report from Xinhua.

A UN Security Council resolution that leaves only one of two border crossings open for aid deliveries from Turkey into rebel-held northwestern Syria will cost lives and intensify the suffering of 1.3 million people living there, aid agencies said.

A top Turkish court has ruled that the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia, which has served as a museum in Istanbul since 1935, would be handed over to Turkey’s religious affairs directorate and reopened for Muslim worship. Here are five things to know about the Hagia Sophia:

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has rejected international condemnation over the decision to change the status of Istanbul’s landmark Hagia Sophia from a museum to a mosque, saying it represented his country’s will to use its “sovereign rights”.

The World Health Organization has reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases, with the total rising by 230,370 in 24 hours.

Hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong citizens queued to cast ballots over the weekend in what the Chinese-ruled city’s opposition camp says is a symbolic protest vote against tough national security laws directly imposed by Beijing.

The Malaysian Immigration Department revoked the work permit of a Bangladeshi youth who spoke to Al Jazeera for a documentary on alleged mistreatment of migrants in the country, Malaysia’s Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Abdul Hamid Bador has said.

Indian government says it has for the first time loaded a special parcel train to Bangladesh carrying 384 tonnes of dry chillies from Reddipalem in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh state.

A total of 180 educational institutions in the United States joined a lawsuit opposing the new visa policy for international students by the Trump administration, according to a report from Xinhua.

Bosnians has commemorated the massacre of about 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, marking the 25th anniversary of killings that shocked the world and have stood out as Europe’s only atrocity since World War Two constituting genocide.

US President Donald Trump wore a face mask in public for the first time Saturday, finally yielding to intense pressure to set a public health example as the coronavirus rampages across America.