US Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are hurtling toward their November 5 election showdown, one of the closest contests in modern American history. This year, there are seven such battlegrounds, and every one is a toss-up within the margin of error.

Israel bombarded Hezbollah and Hamas targets in Lebanon and Gaza yesterday, with no respite in the conflict one day after its strikes on Iran raised fears of a broader war.

A series of boyhood doodles engraved on copper plates by English poet and painter William Blake around 250 years ago have been discovered by researchers using new technology capable of picking up the almost invisible etchings.

India has warned social media platforms of “consequential action” after hundreds of hoax bomb threats to Indian airlines this month triggered travel chaos and terror it said threatened national security.

Rescuers in the Philippines searched a lake and scoured isolated villages yesterday to locate dozens of missing people as the death toll from Tropical Storm Trami hit 110.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump headlined a rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden yesterday, a high-profile event in a state that last backed a Republican president in 1984.

The air quality in Delhi has further deteriorated in the national capital yesterday, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) being recorded at 352, in the ‘very poor’ category, according to System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR).

An American researcher said an Israeli airstrike on Saturday hit a building that was part of Iran’s defunct nuclear weapons development program, and he and another researcher said facilities used to mix solid fuel for missiles also were struck.

Russia said yesterday its military had advanced further in east Ukraine, capturing a frontline village just a few kilometres north of a key Ukrainian-held industrial hub.

China deployed fighter jets and drones as part of a “joint combat readiness patrol” around Taiwan yesterday, Taipei said, as Beijing slammed the latest round of US arms sales to the island.

Japan’s ruling LDP party yesterday fell short of a majority in snap elections for the first time since 2009, national broadcaster NHK projected, in a blow to new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba.

Georgia plunged into political turmoil yesterday after the ruling party declared victory in parliamentary elections decried by the opposition as “falsified”.

President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that Russia’s defence ministry was working on different ways to respond if the United States and its Nato allies help Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with long-range Western missiles.

The Israeli military has warned Tehran against responding

Officials adjusted the death toll after initially reporting 24 deaths, citing information from first responders.

Obama said Democratic candidate Harris would be an "extraordinary president of the United States" if elected in just 10 days.

In Morocco's southeastern desert, a rare downpour has brought lakes and ponds back to life, with locals -- and tourists -- hailing it as a gift from the heavens

Japan voted on Sunday in its tightest election in years, with new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and his juggernaut Liberal Democratic Party facing potentially their worst result since 2009

With the US presidential election heading into the home stretch, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will likely be hoping for Donald Trump to return to the White House

Iran on Saturday played down Israel's overnight air attack against Iranian military targets, saying it caused only limited damage, as U.S. President Joe Biden called for a halt to escalation that has raised fears of an all-out conflagration in the Middle East