Tens of thousands of Australians rally in solidarity with US protesters angered by the death of a black man in police custody, after authorities in one area lifted a ban on the gatherings under the country's social-distancing rules.

French forces have killed the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Algerian Abdelmalek Droukdel, in northern Mali, France's defence minister said.

Patients who died or were admitted to intensive care units with Covid-19 were found to be deficient in Vitamin K, which is found in spinach, eggs, and hard and blue cheeses, according to a study.

The GAVI vaccines alliance has raised $8.8 billion from international donor governments, companies and philanthropic foundations to fund its immunisation programmes through to 2025.

Forces loyal to Libya’s internationally recognised government captured the last major stronghold of eastern commander Khalifa Haftar near Tripoli

Three people were killed and seven wounded in a stabbing spree at a supermarket in rural southeast China, police said yesterday. The suspected

The US conducted its first air strikes against the Taliban since a rare ceasefire between the insurgents and Afghan forces ended more than a week ago,

President Donald Trump on Thursday shared a letter on Twitter that referred to the peaceful protesters who were forcibly dispersed from a park near

A key measure of carbon dioxide emissions in the Earth’s atmosphere hit a record in May even as a global pandemic brought the world’s economies to

Temperatures soared 10 degrees Celsius above average last month in Siberia, home to much of Earth’s permafrost, as the world experienced its hottest May on record, the European Union’s climate monitoring network said yesterday.

A man has been arrested in India’s Kerala state for his alleged involvement in the death of a pregnant elephant and others are being questioned, the state’s Forest Minister K Raju has said.

President Donald Trump voiced hope for progress with arch-rival Iran on Thursday after the clerical regime released a US Navy veteran and the United States freed two Iranians.

Nearly every day, 77-year-old Surin Makradee goes door-to-door in her village in Thailand, visiting every home to check people’s temperatures in a routine repeated in communities across the country during the coronavirus pandemic.

Pakistani and Indian authorities are working together to combat the worst invasion of desert locusts in decades in the region, which is threatening crops in both countries, Pakistan’s foreign office has said.

The pregnant elephant, which died after in India’s Kerala after reportedly eating a crackers-stuffed pineapple, suffered major wounds in its oral cavity and starved for two weeks before dying, according to a post-mortem report made public.

US stock indexes have jumped, with the Nasdaq Composite less than 1% away from a record high, after a closely watched report showed surprise job additions in May, lending weight to hopes of a faster economic rebound from a coronavirus-led slump.

Japan aims to put coronavirus vaccines into use by June 2021, the health minister has said, as the country strives to be fully ready to host the Tokyo Olympics, originally planned for this summer but postponed by one year due to the pandemic.

Bangladesh wins the UN Public Service Award 2020, one of the most prestigious recognition of excellence in the delivery of public services.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has defended his government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak after a broader method of counting deaths led to an all-time daily high, outstripping even the United States.

Thousands of Hong Kong protesters lit candles and chanted democracy slogans as they defied a ban yesterday against gathering to commemorate China’s deadly Tiananmen crackdown, with tensions seething in the city over a planned new security law.