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

Here are the facts on the biotech firms that have released early-stage trial data for potential Covid-19 vaccines, or are expected to publish soon.

The European Union Air Safety Agency (EASA) has suspended the authorisation for the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to operate in the bloc for six months, the airline's spokesman says.

Hong Kong police fired water cannon and tear gas and arrested nearly 200 people on Wednesday as protesters took to the streets in defiance of sweeping security legislation introduced by China that critics say is aimed at snuffing out dissent.

Nineteen people have been killed and six injured in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of the Iranian capital Tehran, the official IRIB news agency reported, quoting state officials.

Nineteen people have been killed and six injured in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of the Iranian capital Tehran, the official IRIB news agency reported, quoting state officials.

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 second-biggest producer of rice and wheat.

Dataful, a Bangladeshi startup, has secured a place among the top nine startups to compete in the finale of the accelerator programme of Startup Istanbul 2020, a global startup event based in Turkey.

South Korea has the world’s lowest birth rate, according to a United Nations report released yesterday. The annual report by the UN Population Fund

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has spoken with the Taliban’s chief negotiator amid controversy in Washington over reports that President Donald

In a claim to disputed territory, Chinese forces in the contested Fingers region of Ladakh’s Pangong Lake have inscribed a massive Mandarin symbol and map of China onto the ground they occupy as tensions persist between the Asian giants after violent clashes earlier in the month.

Koalas in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) could become extinct by 2050 unless the government immediately intervenes to protect them

The coronavirus pandemic has led a growing number of Westerners to see China as a top power, with the lead of the United States slipping, a study

Three Myanmar military officers were found guilty by a court martial investigating atrocities against Rohingyas in conflict-ridden Rakhine state, the

The coronavirus pandemic is reversing progress on ending child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM), jeopardising the futures of millions of girls, a senior UN official said yesterday.

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday told parliament he had no doubt that India was behind an attack on the stock exchange building in the southern city of Karachi.

Nepali housewife Shiba Kala Limbu grimaced as she recalled how she went hungry in order to feed her five-year-old daughter after the coronavirus pandemic cost her husband his job as a mason in the Gulf state of Qatar.

The Palestinians are prepared to renew long-stalled peace talks with Israel and to agree to “minor” territorial concessions, according to a counter-proposal to a contentious US plan.

Belgium’s King Philippe expressed deep regret yesterday for the “suffering and humiliation” inflicted on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during its 75-year period under Belgian rule.