A cruise ship that spent two weeks at sea after being turned away by five countries over fears that someone aboard might have the coronavirus arrived in Cambodia on Thursday, to the relief of passengers and praise from global health officials.

The US Department of Education has said it has opened an investigation into whether the universities of Harvard and Yale failed to report hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign gifts and contracts as required by law.

The US and the Taliban yesterday appeared closer to sealing a deal for an American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, after Afghan a

Pope Francis yesterday pleaded for social justice and environmental respect for the Amazon basin, but failed to recommend the

Turkey will strike Syrian regime forces “everywhere” if its soldiers come under renewed attack, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned yesterday, while also accusing Damascus ally Russia of committing “massacres” in Idlib.

Four people survived a month adrift in the Pacific by eating coconuts and drinking rainwater in an ordeal that claimed the lives of eight of their companions, including a baby, reports said yesterday.

Under pressure from President Donald Trump, the US Justice Department on Tuesday abruptly moved to seek a shorter prison sentence for veteran Republican operative and long-time Trump adviser and friend Roger Stone, and all four prosecutors quit the case after the highly unusual reversal.

The alleged mastermind of a deadly attack on India’s financial capital over a decade ago has been jailed in Pakistan for nearly six years on separate terror charges, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire’s high-stakes Democratic primary on Tuesday, according to US network projections, leaving rivals including party stalwart Joe Biden in his wake as he staked his claim to challenge President Donald Trump in November.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, appearing before the United Nations Security Council, on Tuesday rejected US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace proposal as a gift to Israel and unacceptable to Palestinians.

UN health agency experts was to meet yesterday to decide whether the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo should still

Opposition leader Juan Guaido returned to Venezuela on Tuesday after an international support-building tour and called on the people in

Indonesia has said it will not bring home nearly 700 hundred nationals who joined the Islamic State group in the Middle East over

A pledge to close the health and wellbeing gap between Aboriginal and other Australians is failing, the government admitted yesterday,

Hafiz Saeed, accused by India and the United States of masterminding the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, is jailed for 11 years in Pakistan on terrorism financing charges.

Seventeen Chinese sailors, who were stuck in a ship docked at Sitakunda coast for five days, are set to return to their country tonight on a flight departing from Shah Amanat International Airport in the capital, reports our Chattogram correspondent.

Singapore is doing what is needed to try to contain the coronavirus outbreak, which included immediately closing off all entrance points to the country to anyone with fever.

China reports its lowest number of new coronavirus cases since late January, lending weight to a prediction by its senior medical adviser that the outbreak could end by April.

Arvind Kejriwal, who spearheaded Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to a remarkable victory in Delhi assembly election decimating the Bharatiya Janata Party, will take oath as the chief minister on February 16 for a third consecutive term.

Early childhood development and education of the girl child are some of the top priorities of UNICEF for the current year, says Rabab Fatima, Bangladesh’s permanent representative to the UN and president of UNICEF’s executive board for 2020.