Counting began in the US after millions of Americans voted yesterday in a presidential election defined by drama and uncertainty, with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump left to await the outcome of a desperately close race after months of intense campaigning.

The world’s first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, was launched into space yesterday, in an early test of using timber in lunar and Mars exploration.

As Americans voted yesterday, officials are calling for patience as they tally ballots in what could be a historically close presidential race -- and warning that it could take days to find out who has won.

A survivor from the capsizing of a migrant boat that claimed 25 lives off the Comoros told AFP yesterday that smugglers sank the vessel and fled on a speedboat.

India’s capital territory of Delhi is keen to use artificial rain to fight air pollution this year, its Environment Minister Gopal Rai said yesterday, as deteriorating air quality in the region led to an increase in respiratory illnesses.

Pakistan on Monday passed an amendment to a law that will extend the terms of the heads of the armed forces to five years from three, in a rowdy parliamentary session opposed by jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan’s party, PTI.

Israel’s military said its air force struck the intelligence headquarters of Hezbollah’s Syrian branch in a strike on Damascus on Monday, an attack a war monitor said killed two people.

At least one Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in a beach town south of Beirut yesterday, Lebanese state media said, as other deadly strikes hit scattered locations across the country and armed group Hezbollah launched rockets into Israel.

Two Chinese nationals were wounded yesterday by a security guard who opened fire at a garment factory in Pakistan’s commercial hub Karachi, in the latest in a string of attacks that have spurred Beijing to demand better security for its citizens.

Panic buttons for poll workers, special weapons teams deployed on rooftops, and hundreds of National Guard personnel on standby.

The top court in the battleground state of Georgia ruled on Monday that Cobb County cannot extend the deadline for counting about 3,000 absentee ballots that were sent out shortly before Election Day, handing a victory to the Republican National Committee and presidential candidate Donald Trump.

A Pennsylvania state judge on Monday allowed Elon Musk’s $1 million-a-day giveaway to swing state voters to proceed, after a surprising day of testimony in which the billionaire’s aide acknowledged his political group selected the contest’s winners.

Early vote returns in US battleground states may not be a good indicator of whether Democratic candidate Kamala Harris or Republican rival Donald Trump will win, experts say, thanks to vote counting rules and quirks in several key states.

A scion of the famed Kennedy family. A Green Party activist. A self-proclaimed “armed and gay” libertarian. The US presidential election is toss-up between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump. However, the two-party system still left room this year for three fringe players who could yet influence the ultra-tight election.

So what exactly happens if neither Kamala Harris or Donald Trump achieves the Electoral College majority required to win the US election?

With any other president, promises of less regulation and lower corporate taxes would have Wall Street’s deal machine salivating at the prospect of a feeding frenzy. Not so with a potential Donald Trump presidency.

Israel’s military issued new evacuation orders in the north of the Gaza Strip yesterday after carrying out strikes across the enclave which Palestinian media and medics said had killed at least 35 people.

Early vote returns in US battleground states may not be a good indicator of whether Democratic candidate Kamala Harris or Republican rival Donald Trump will win, experts say, thanks to vote counting rules and quirks in several key states.

43,391 Palestinians killed in Gaza offensive since October 7, 2023, health ministry says

In the United States, every four years, Americans cast their votes to elect the president on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November..This practice, which has become a defining feature of the democratic process in the country, can be traced back to decisions made over 175 year