Prepaid mobile connections were restored in Jammu and Kashmir yesterday and 2G services resumed in two districts of the valley after being disconnected in August last year, official said.

President Donald Trump on Friday warned Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to be “very careful with his words.”

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has called on Europe to support its work in Libya, where it is providing military support to the internationally-recognised government, if it wants to end the conflict there.

Rain and thunderstorms doused long-burning bushfires across much of eastern Australia yesterday, but they also brought a new threat of flooding in some areas.

Renowned Bollywood actress Shabana Azmi is injured in an accident on the Mumbai-Pune Express Highway.

After nearly six months, prepaid mobile phone connections are restored in Jammu and Kashmir.

Khagendra Thapa Magar, who had entered the Guinness Book of World Records for being the shortest man in the world, passes away at Manipal Teaching Hospital in Pokhara, Nepal.

Four members of a family are killed and one is injured in a shooting in a Salt Lake City suburb.

Health authorities are concerned that a virus originating in central China could spread when hundreds of millions of Chinese travel during next week's lunar new year festival, but residents said there were was little anxiety in the city at the epicentre.

China and Myanmar ink dozens of mammoth infrastructure and trade deals after a meeting between President Xi Jinping and fallen rights icon Aung San Suu Kyi, as Beijing doubles down on its support for a government under fire for its treatment of Rohingya Muslims.

The true scale of the outbreak of a mysterious SARS-like virus in China is likely far bigger than officially reported, scientists have warned, as countries ramp up measures to prevent the disease from spreading.

President Donald Trump warns Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to be "very careful with his words."

The Taliban have offered a brief ceasefire to the US, two insurgent sources said Thursday, a move which could allow for the resumption

Sepsis played a direct role in the deaths of 11 million people in 2017, almost twice as many as previously estimated, according to a study

Drought-breaking storms dumped desperately needed rain on some bushfire-ravaged parts of eastern Australia yesterday, while giving

Ukraine’s prime minister offered his resignation yesterday after audio was leaked of him questioning President Volodymyr Zelensky’s

A Pakistani court has sentenced more than 80 Islamists to 55 years in prison each after protests linked to the 2018 acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman accused of blasphemy, one of their senior leaders told AFP.

India yesterday issued a travel advisory for its nationals to and from China and ordered screening of international travellers from that country at Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata airports in view of an infection with a novel coronavirus which has been reported from Wuhan province of China.

China’s birth rate dropped last year to its lowest level since the Communist country was founded in 1949, adding to concerns that an ageing society and shrinking workforce will pile pressure on a slowing economy.

The interim head of the UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees on Thursday accused pro-Israel groups of lobbying foreign parliaments to stop donations, even as it struggled to recover from losing United States funding in 2018.