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.

The European Union has excluded the United States from its initial “safe list” of countries from which the bloc will allow non-essential travel.

IOC Middle East FZE, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Indian Oil Corporation, and RR Holdings Ltd, the holding company of Beximco LPG of Bangladesh, have signed an agreement for the formation of a 50:50 Joint Venture Company for LPG business in Bangladesh.

Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Monday it would submit itself to an audit of how it controls hate speech in a bid to appease a growing advertising boycott of the platform, as it prepared to address a group of advertisers on Tuesday.

Google says it will start paying some publishers for their news content, in a move that could pave the way for reduced tensions between the internet search giant and the beleaguered news industry.

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 says.

Bengalis, known for having sweet tooth, have a good news to cheer about during this ongoing coronavirus pandemic times as the West Bengal government decided to come out with a “sandesh” which will contain honey from Sundarbans to increase immunity, an official said on Sunday.

Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has alleged that India wants to topple his government after he issued the new map that shows Indian territories of Kalapani, Lipulekh and Limpiyadhura as Nepalese territories.

Israel’s aim to annex parts of the occupied West Bank was clearly “illegal”, the UN’s human rights chief said yesterday, warning that the consequences could be “disastrous”.

Baloch separatists opened fire and hurled a grenade at the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi yesterday, authorities said, killing four people including a policeman.

A heart-wrenching video message by a dying, young coronavirus patient saying goodbye to his father has gone viral in India over social media, where he is complaining of negligence by a state-run hospital in Hyderabad, he was admitted to, after refusal by several other private hospitals, has left the people of city and neitizens in shock and pain.

At least 23 civilians were killed in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province and dozens were wounded when rockets hit a cattle market yesterday, Afghan government and Taliban officials said.

China’s military has received the greenlight to use a COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by its research unit and CanSino Biologics after

Russian state pollster VCIOM on Monday published an exit poll showing a vast majority of Russians backing proposed constitutional reforms,

As the presidential election in the United States are slated for November, Donald Trump on Sunday shared a video of a stand-off between anti-Trump protesters and his supporters in which a man chants “white power” before deleting it amid an outcry.

A commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen was among 3 people killed in Indian Kashmir yesterday, police officials said, as security forces step up a

Iran has issued an arrest warrant for US President Donald Trump and 35 others over the killing of top general Qassem Soleimani and has asked Interpol for help, Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday, according to the Fars news agency.

The death toll from Covid-19 surpasses half a million people according to a Reuters tally, a grim milestone for the global pandemic that seems to be resurgent in some countries even as other regions are still grappling with the first wave.