President Donald Trump opened a new front in his battle against immigration, barring the issuing of visas to pregnant women seeking to enter the United States for so-called “birth tourism.”

Carbon emissions from the wildfires that have ravaged much of southeast Australia are a major driver of what are predicted to be record

Astronauts on the International Space Station have baked the first cookies in space, but they took far longer than on Earth.

US financier and philanthropist George Soros on Thursday pledged one billion dollars for a new university network project to battle the

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was to receive Britain’s EU divorce agreement yesterday after Brussels’ top two officials signed it at a closed door ceremony in the dead of night.

The Doomsday Clock on Thursday ticked down to 100 seconds to midnight, symbolizing the greatest level of peril to humanity since its creation in 1947 as the threat posed by climate change and a growing nuclear race loomed large.

Tens of thousands of Iraqis rallied in central Baghdad yesterday calling for the expulsion of US troops, but the protest mostly dissipated after a few hours despite fears of violence following a cleric’s call for a “million strong” turnout.

Tens of thousands of civilians fled their homes in northwestern Syria last week in the face of intensified bombardment of rebel territory

North Korea has appointed Ri Son Gwon, a former army officer with little diplomatic experience, as its new foreign minister, state media

China is rushing to build a new hospital in a staggering 10 days to treat patients at the epicentre of a deadly virus outbreak that has stricken hundreds of people, state media reported yesterday.

A SARS-like virus has claimed 26 lives since emerging on December 31 in a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Here is a list of countries that have confirmed cases of the so-called coronavirus.

The UN Human Rights Office calls on Myanmar to immediately and unconditionally implement the top UN court's order in full, consistently with its obligations under the Charter and the Court's Statute.

Amnesty International releases a music video on the occasion of the International Day of Education to encourage people of Bangladesh and around the world to support education for Rohingya children and those of host communities in Bangladesh.

Oil slips below $62 a barrel and is heading for a weekly decline as concern that a virus in China may spread, curbing travel and oil demand, overshadowed supply cuts.

Thousands of Iraqis rally at two central Baghdad intersections after a prominent cleric called for a “million strong” protest against the American military presence, following the US killing of an Iranian general and an Iraqi militia chief.

Two Indians, who returned from China, are kept under observation in the isolation ward of a hospital in Mumbai for possible exposure to coronavirus in the wake of an outbreak in China.

Schools in Singapore ask parents to declare overseas holiday plans as authorities screened travellers at air, land and sea checkpoints, to combat the spread of a deadly flu virus that has revived memories of the SARS pandemic in 2003.

China seals off millions more people near the epicentre of a virus outbreak, shutting down public transport in an eighth city in an unprecedented quarantine effort as the death toll climbed to 26.

Queen Elizabeth II gave her formal assent yesterday for Britain to end its decades-long involvement in the European Union and seek a more independent but uncertain future at the end of the month.

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin yesterday advised climate activist Greta Thunberg, who has been bitterly critical of US policy at the World Economic Forum, to study economics before giving out lessons.