The World Health Organization delivered a grave warning that the global pandemic is accelerating as the new daily coronavirus cases in the United States soared past 50,000 for the first time Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump, who has yet to be seen in public wearing a face mask during the coronavirus pandemic, said Wednesday he would have

Amazon forest fires in Brazil increased by 19.5 percent in June compared to the same month last year, making it the worst June in 13 years, authorities

“I am clean…but officials are not clean!” These are the words that Bangladeshi MP Mohammad Shahid Islam said during the public prosecution investigations in Kuwait after he was charged on allegations of human trafficking by selling visas, bribing officials and money laundering.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that a statue of 19th century colonialist Cecil Rhodes should not be pulled down from an Oxford University college because history should not be edited.

India has decided to go for acquisition of various weapon platforms and equipment, including 21 MiG-29 fighter jets from Russia, at an approximate cost of Rs 38,900 crore.

The Indian arm of global consumer giant Unilever (ULVR.L) has said its much-criticised skin cream ‘Fair & Lovely’ will be rebranded as ‘Glow & Lovely’.

Hundreds of elephants have died mysteriously in Botswana's famed Okavango Delta, the head of the wildlife department said Thursday, ruling out poaching as the tusks were found intact.

Nations who fail to use every mechanism available to combat the still-raging novel coronavirus will struggle to beat it, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

Regulators have barred Pakistan International Airlines from the European Union for six months after the state-run carrier grounded nearly a third of its

Brazil’s education minister resigned Tuesday only five days after he was appointed, amid accusations that he lied over his academic record. Carlos

Stay home and make babies? As condoms and other forms of birth control are unavailable to a growing number of Indonesians during the Covid-19 pandemic, the world’s fourth-most populous nation may see a baby boom.

Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli’s recent remarks that efforts are being made to oust him after his government redrew Nepal’s political map has backfired, with top leaders of the ruling Nepal Communist Party demanding his resignation on Tuesday.

China yesterday played down the threat of a new swine flu strain with pandemic potential that researchers discovered in pigs, saying the study is “not representative”.

China yesterday ordered four US news outlets to disclose details of their staff and financial operations in the country within seven days, as a media row escalates between Washington and Beijing.

The United Nations human rights chief said on Tuesday that up to 10,000 people had fled their homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state after what she described as heavy fighting in the past week between government troops and ethnic insurgents.

The coronavirus crisis has taken a much heavier toll on jobs than previously feared, the UN said Tuesday, warning that the situation in the Americas was particularly dire.

Retailers in Japan began charging for plastic bags yesterday, a move aimed at curbing Japanese consumers’ love for packaging and finally bringing the

A powerful explosion at a clinic in northern Tehran killed at least 19 people yesterday, Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency reported.

India has deployed a helicopter and a dozen drones spraying insecticide to stop desert locusts that have spread to nine heartland states of the world’s