A team of four Sherpas yesterday set off to attempt a record winter ascent of Mount Everest in just five days, which would also be the first winter climb of the peak in more than quarter of a century.

Iran’s conservatives claimed victory Sunday in a general election marked by the lowest turnout since the 1979 Islamic Revolution amid public anger against the government, an economic downturn and the disqualification of half the candidates.

The sharp rise in cases and the geographical spread of the coronavirus outside China confirm WHO fears over dealing with the crisis, experts warned Sunday as they appealed for ever greater vigilance.

Israeli air strikes targeting the Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip and Syria killed at least six fighters, a war monitor said yesterday, after the jihadists fired a barrage of rockets at Israel.

Two Wall Street Journal reporters left China yesterday after being expelled over a controversial headline in an op-ed that angered Beijing.

Sri Lanka will deploy troops to help police control worsening traffic congestion in the capital, the army said yesterday.

Schools in Kashmir reopened yesterday after remaining shut for nearly seven months following the abrogation of Article 370. Officials of the Jammu and Kashmir education department said all arrangements had been put in place for the students to attend schools after the institutions remained shut for months since August after scrapping of its special status and due to winter break.

UN chief Antonio Guterres yesterday launched a “call to action” against rising attacks on human rights, highlighting the persecution of minorities and “alarming levels of femicide”.

A head constable of Delhi Police and a civilian are killed and a senior police official is among scores injured as arson and violence erupt in northeast Delhi’s Jaffrabad and Maujpur localities during street protests for and against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).

Trump said India is a country that is peace-loving and tolerant, a country which has tremendous talent while referring to Bollywood.

Non-residents of Wuhan may leave the quarantined city at the epicentre of China's virus epidemic if they show no symptoms and have never had contact with patients, authorities say.

Progressive firebrand Bernie Sanders earned a decisive victory Saturday in the Nevada caucuses, solidifying his frontrunner status in the race to choose the Democratic nominee who faces President Donald Trump in November’s election.

The bonhomie between the two leaders of the world’s largest democracies are well known. But apart from the optics and their mutual enmity to China, the ground reality is different.

South Korea went on high alert yesterday following a sharp jump in coronavirus cases, while Italy and Iran took their own drastic containment steps as an epidemic that has killed nearly 2,500 people in China continued a relentless global expansion.

Clint Eastwood, the iconic actor and director who infamously delivered a speech to an empty chair at the 2012 Republican

Israeli forces yesterday shot dead a Palestinian suspected of placing a bomb near the Gaza border, before extracting his body with a

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said he would hold a summit with the leaders of Russia, France and Germany

Finance officials from the world’s 20 biggest economies (G20) meeting in Riyadh yesterday reached agreement on the wording of a

Mobile phone services were restored across swathes of Taliban-contested areas of Afghanistan over the weekend as a partial truce

Belying his earlier claim that mainstream Pakistan opposition parties are on the same page, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman