Indian police shot dead one of the country’s most wanted gangsters yesterday just a day after his dramatic arrest, sparking accusations of a staged

The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yesterda6y said there was “no need” for another summit with the United States unless

Nepal’s cable television operators have suspended Indian news channels for “objectionable” reporting on the country’s prime minister as tensions between the neighbours rise over a border dispute.

President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia open to Muslim worship yesterday after a top court ruled that the building’s conversion to a museum by modern Turkey’s founding statesman was illegal.

President Tayyip Erdogan has declared Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia open to Muslim prayer as a mosque after a top court ruled that the building’s conversion to a museum by modern Turkey’s founding statesman was illegal.

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has promised to spend $700 billion on American-made products and industrial research, which he said would give at least 5 million more people a paycheck during a job-killing pandemic.

An advance team from the World Health Organization (WHO) has left for China to organise an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus which sparked the global pandemic.

Nepal’s cable television operators have suspended Indian news channels for “objectionable” reporting on the country’s prime minister as tensions between the neighbours rise over a border dispute.

A Delhi court has granted bail to 82 Bangladeshi nationals who were charge-sheeted for allegedly violating visa conditions, illegally carrying out missionary activities and violating government Covid-19 lockdown guidelines while attending a congregation of Tablighi Jamaat in the Indian capital in March.

The World Health Organization, which has faced criticism over its early handling of the coronavirus crisis, on Thursday launched an independent review into the global response to the pandemic.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday denounced China’s “aggression” toward India and said that a fresh dispute over Bhutan showed Beijing’s plan of “bullying.”

Millions of people in Australia’s second-biggest city went into lockdown yesterday to battle another coronavirus outbreak, as the number of infections worldwide surged past 12 million.

Suspected militants shot dead a local leader of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the restive territory of Kashmir on Wednesday, police said,

Heavy rains and landslides in China have left at least 14 people dead or missing over the past day, burying houses and causing scenic areas to

A wooden sculpture of US first lady Melania Trump was torched near her hometown of Sevnica, Slovenia, on the night of July Fourth, as Americans

The annual mean global temperature is likely to be at least one degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels in each of the next five years, the World

Australia offered pathways to permanent residency for thousands of people from Hong Kong yesterday in response to China’s crackdown on dissent, drawing a furious reply from Beijing.

The US Supreme Court yesterday made it clear that a sitting president cannot evade criminal investigations, ruling that a prosecutor in New York City can obtain President Donald Trump’s financial records including tax returns.

Millions of people are being pushed towards hunger by the coronavirus pandemic, which could end up killing more people through lack of food than from the illness itself, Oxfam has warned.

Germany’s finance and foreign ministers have declined an invitation to take part in a Washington gathering of ministers from the G7 group of large industrial countries, Der Spiegel magazine reports.