The United States promised Wednesday to take into account India’s concerns as it looks to pull out of Afghanistan, in high-level talks that agreed on several ways to boost the democracies’ emerging alliance.

Exiled former Pakistan military leader Pervez Musharraf dismissed the unprecedented treason conviction and death sentence handed to him earlier this week, saying the ruling was the result of a “personal vendetta”.

Muslim nations need to do more business among themselves, trade in each other’s currencies and keep up with non-Islamic countries to stop being left at their mercy, their leaders said yesterday at a summit boycotted by Saudi Arabia.

Here are the main points from Queen Elizabeth II’s speech in parliament yesterday setting out the British government’s legislative programme:

The number of male tobacco users is falling for the first time, the World Health Organization said yesterday, hailing a “major shift” in efforts to kick the world’s deadly tobacco addiction.

The UN hailed Wednesday a “decisive shift” in the approach to helping surging numbers of displaced people, after a summit ended with

Israeli warplanes attacked an arms plant in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip early yesterday, after Palestinian militants in the enclave

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said “nobody knows” what causes climate change, seeming to cast doubt over whether global

A state of emergency was declared in Australia’s most populated region yesterday as an unprecedented heatwave fanned out-of-control bushfires, destroying homes and smothering huge areas with a toxic smoke.

Local people affected by the massive influx of the Rohingyas are not getting equitable benefits of the development projects undertaken in Cox’s Bazar, say development experts, government officials and aid agencies.

A partial solar eclipse will be visible on December 26 in Bangladesh if the sky remains clear, according to Bangladesh Meteorological Department.

Exiled former Pakistan military leader Pervez Musharraf dismisses the unprecedented treason conviction and death sentence handed to him earlier this week, saying the ruling was the result of a "personal vendetta".

While Trump is all but certain to avoid removal from office, a portion of his legacy took shape Wednesday when he became just the third president in American history to be impeached by the US House.

An embattled President Donald Trump condemns the Democratic-led impeachment vote against him, irked that he made US history in a bad way but assures that Republicans in the Senate will save him from being ousted.

Here is a chronology of events leading to the impeachment of US President Donald Trump in the US House of Representatives. The matter now moves to a Senate trial to determine whether he will be removed from office, an unlikely event given that the chamber is controlled by his fellow Republicans.

US President Donald Trump has been impeached for abuse of power in a historic vote in the House of Representatives, setting up a Senate trial on removing him from office after three turbulent years.

The US Senate approved a massive defense spending bill on Tuesday, sending Donald Trump a $738 billion package that creates a new space force,

Fourteen people were killed and 13 were missing after Boko Haram jihadists attacked a fishing village in western Chad on Tuesday, government officials said.

China has postponed a discussion by the UN Security Council planned for Tuesday about the situation in the disputed Indian territory of Jammu and Kashmir because the UN peacekeeping mission there was not ready to provide a brief, diplomats said.

India’s top court yesterday dismissed an appeal against the death penalty by one of four men convicted of the gang-rape of a woman on a bus in New Delhi and her murder, saying it found no reason to review the sentence.