Swarms of crop-destroying desert locusts have entered the outskirts of Delhi after being spotted in several parts of Haryana’s Gurugram district

Pope Francis has donated 35 ventilators in recent weeks to various countries, of which two were sent to Bangladesh to support the fight against coronavirus.

Malaysian teen has become an Internet sensation almost overnight after a video she uploaded recently caught the eye of viewers on YouTube.

European Union countries have failed to settle on a final “safe list” of countries whose residents could travel to the bloc from July, with the United States, Brazil and Russia set to be excluded.

Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, who was seeking a return to the premier's seat for a third time, has now thrown his support behind Parti Warisan Sabah leader Shafie Apdal as the opposition's Prime Minister-designate in the event of snap polls.

An American woman who helped turn a Donald Trump rally into a fiasco has been hired by a grassroots organisation campaigning for the election of presidential challenger Joe Biden.

Facebook Inc says it will start labeling newsworthy content that violates the social media company's policies, and label all posts and ads about voting with links to authoritative information, including those from politicians.

The number of malnourished children in Yemen could rise to 2.4 million by the end of the year due to a big shortfall in humanitarian funding, the

Pakistani opposition parties criticized Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday after he told parliament that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been

The United States and Europe battled a resurgence of coronavirus cases yesterday, with Texas ordering bars to close and warnings mounting worldwide over lifting lockdowns too soon.

Malaysia can no longer take in Rohingya refugees from Myanmar, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said yesterday, citing a struggling economy and dwindling resources as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Nearly 100 Rohingya people who were stranded off the coast of Indonesia were pulled to shore on Thursday by local people furious at local authorities’ refusal to give them shelter because of fears about the coronavirus.

India has acknowledged for the first time that it has matched China in massing troops at their contested Himalayan border region after a deadly clash this month.

At least 107 people died from lightning strikes in northern and eastern India Thursday, officials said, during the early stages of the annual monsoon

A six-year-old boy caught in crossfire was among five people killed in Indian Kashmir yesterday, officials said. New Delhi has bolstered counter-

Japan has produced its first ninja studies graduate after Genichi Mitsuhashi spent two years honing his martial arts skills and absorbing the finer

The US House of Representatives approved a sweeping Democratic police reform bill on Thursday, sending the measure to the Senate despite

Mexico City’s chief of police was shot and injured and two of his bodyguards were killed in a dramatic assassination attempt that he has quickly blamed on one of Mexico’s most powerful drug gangs, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

It is not certain that scientists will be able to create an effective vaccine against coronavirus that has caused the Covid-19 pandemic, but it could take a year before one were to be invented, the head of the World Health Organisation has said.

A Bangladeshi worker in Singapore who came close to death a few times defies the odds and has been discharged after five months from hospital.