Major social advances have often emerged from the depths of disaster: the Black Death brought an end to serfdom, and Britain’s welfare state emerged from the ruins of World War II.

China’s new prototype spacecraft “successfully landed” yesterday, marking an important step in its ambitions to run a permanent space station and

President Vladimir Putin sends telegrams to US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson suggesting the need to rekindle their nations’ cooperation during World War Two to solve today’s problems.

Sixteen migrant labourers were run over by a goods train as they were sleeping on the rail tracks in the western Indian state of Maharashtra today, officials said.

A continent devastated by the coronavirus will mark the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe today.

The vote was 49-44 in favor of the resolution, but that fell short of the two-thirds majority, or 67 votes, needed to override a veto in the 100-member Senate.

Iraq’s former spy chief Mustafa Kadhemi took office as prime minister yesterday facing a staggering economic crisis, a pandemic and the spectre of renewed protests after breaking months of political deadlock.

Israeli lawmakers approved the formation of a unity government between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his erstwhile rival Benny

One hundred thirty-two civilians were killed last year in US global military operations, the army said Wednesday, a number far lower than those

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed what he called a “very insulting” congressional resolution seeking to limit his war powers in

Venezuela will try two Americans allegedly captured during a failed bid by mercenaries to invade the country, President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday, as the US vowed to “use every tool available” to bring them home.

Coronavirus patients declared recovered who later test positive for the disease are still expelling dead lung cells rather than getting a new infection, the World Health Organization (WHO) told AFP on Wednesday.

At least 11 people were killed in southern India by a gas leak at a South Korean-owned factory making polystyrene products, with emergency services rushing over 300 people to hospitals and evacuating 1,500 from a nearby village, a police official said.

At least 264,111 people have died of the novel coronavirus since the epidemic surfaced in China late last year, according to an Johns Hopkins

The United Nations yesterday issued a new appeal for $4.7 billion in funding to “protect millions of lives and stem the spread of coronavirus in fragile countries.”

Cardinal George Pell was aware of child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in Australia as far back as the 1970s and failed to seek the removal of accused priests, says findings of a top-level inquiry.

A former US soldier captured in Venezuela says that he was contracted by a Florida security firm to seize control of Caracas' airport and bring in a plane to fly President Nicolas Maduro to the United States.

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns of the risks of returning to lockdown if countries emerging from pandemic restrictions do not manage transitions “extremely carefully and in a phased approach”.

The global lockdown caused by COVID-19 risks a “devastating” surge in tuberculosis cases, with nearly 1.4 million additional deaths from the

Israel announced a plan for thousands of new Jewish settlement homes in the occupied West Bank yesterday as Washington voiced readiness to