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.

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.

Sports stars, musicians, politicians and religious leaders have queued up to condemn the death of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man whose killing has touched off once-in-a-generation protests across the US. Here is a round-up of global reactions to his death and the demonstrations that have convulsed the United States in the past week.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres yesterday said a new vaccine against the coronavirus had to be available to everyone across the world, as an international conference got under way to raise funds for new life-saving treatments.

Three suspects have been identified in investigations into the killing of a pregnant elephant that ate an explosives-filled pineapple, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said yesterday.

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.

China reportedly made a slight retreat at Galwan Valley, one of the flashpoint leading to standoff with India, in Ladakh region, in a bid to resolve the

An elementary school guard in China injured 39 people in a knife attack yesterday with many children among the victims, a state office and media

India and Australia sealed an accord yesterday to grant access to each other’s military bases in order to facilitate mutual defence exchanges and

Prosecutors in Minnesota on Wednesday upgraded charges against the US police officer primarily implicated in the killing of a handcuffed black man, and charged three other officers over the death, which has ignited nationwide protests.

Many people in Hong Kong plan to commemorate the bloody 1989 crackdown by Chinese troops in and around Tiananmen Square by lighting candles across the city on Thursday, circumventing a ban on the usual public gathering amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The head of the global vaccine alliance has warned “nobody is safe unless everybody is safe” from the new coronavirus, urging international solidarity ahead of a fundraising summit.

Mumbai escaped the brunt of a cyclone yesterday after winds changed direction and the storm made landfall further south on India’s western coast than expected, giving some respite to a metropolis already ravaged by coronavirus infections.

The EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell has warned President Donald Trump he did not have the power to change the format of G7 summit, after the US