Greta Thunberg denounced politicians and the media yesterday for ignoring a looming climate cataclysm, saying that they were failing her generation with their inaction in the face of a world on fire.

The US Navy said Thursday that a Chinese military warship fired a military grade laser at US Navy P-8 surveillance aircraft last week while it was flying over the Pacific Ocean, an action that the US Navy called “unsafe and unprofessional.”

In a field dotted with olive trees in embattled northwestern Syria, Shamseddeen Darra steps down into the gloomy underground shelter he and his family now call home.

Nine cultural organisations in Bangladesh express grave concerns over the clash and violence that erupted in Indian’s capital New Delhi between people for and against a new citizenship law.

Mongolia's President Battulga Khaltmaa and other government officials have submitted to a 14-day quarantine after returning home from their visit to China, the state news agency Montsame reports.

A police official in India has been hailed for his bravery in saving families from the clutches of violent mobs during the recent spate of clashes in New Delhi, reports BBC.

Uncertainty grows over the political fate of Malaysia’s 94-year-old Mahathir Mohamad after the royal palace rejected a plan for selecting a new prime minister announced by the man who has dominated the country for decades.

Malaysia’s parliament will convene Monday to decide on the country’s next prime minister after days of horse-trading failed to break an impasse, said Mahathir Mohamad.

Pakistan yesterday shut schools in several areas and suspended flights to and from Iran to try to stop the spread of new coronavirus, after reporting its first cases of the infection, officials said.

The Delhi High Court hearing a plea demanding registration of FIRs against certain BJP leaders who allegedly made hate speeches thereby inciting violence in Northeast Delhi, yesterday gave the Centre four weeks to file its response in the case while making it a party in the matter.

ITALY: With 12 deaths and 400 infections, Italy is the European country worst affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. It has also been a point of contagion with many cases in other countries involving people who returned home after travelling in infection-hit areas of northern Italy.

A day after US lawmakers reacted sharply to the violence in the national capital, frontrunner in the Democratic presidential election, Bernie Sanders slammed US President Donald Trump for failing to address the issue of human rights while he was visiting India.

Gul Mohammad had a flourishing footwear business until masked men armed with crude petrol bombs burnt down his shops during Delhi’s worst violence in decades, shattering the harmony between Hindus and Muslims in the neighbourhood.

An Australian boy with dwarfism whose distress from bullying became a viral video will donate hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in

Red pandas, the bushy-tailed and russet-furred bamboo munchers that dwell in Asian high forests, are not a single species but rather

Pope Francis cancelled a scheduled appearance at mass in Rome yesterday because of “a mild ailment”, the Vatican said, the day after he

The US Justice Department announced on Wednesday the arrests of five men associated with the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division over threats made to journalists and activists and a series of so-called “swatting” attacks.

A gunman killed five co-workers at one of America’s best-known breweries on Wednesday before turning the weapon on himself in the latest burst of mass gun violence in the US.

From inside his car, a driver is checked for any fever or breathing difficulties by medical staff in protective clothing and goggles who lean in through the window at a new drive-thru coronavirus clinic in South Korea.

US President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign on Wednesday filed suit against The New York Times over an OpEd article about links to Russia, the first legal action of its kind after his regular criticism of the “failing” newspaper and other traditional media organizations.