Oxygen accounts for about 21 percent of Earth’s air, with the rest of our atmosphere primarily nitrogen. And most living things - including people, as we well know - need oxygen to survive.

The United States yesterday urged Bangladesh to revisit its recent minimum wage decision and to protect workers’ rights after police shot dead a woman during the latest protests by garment laborers.

In our solar system, little rocky Mercury is the planet orbiting closest to the sun, perpetually fried by solar radiation seven times more intense than what we experience on Earth.

A combative Donald Trump took the stand on Monday in the New York civil fraud case threatening his real estate empire, clashing repeatedly with the judge and denouncing the trial as a “disgrace.”

US businessman and politician Donald Trump testified Monday in a fraud trial against him and his family business. Charged with grossly falsifying his financial records, Trump claims to be the victim of intrigue

Donald Trump was in a New York court yesterday to testify in a civil fraud case threatening to cripple his real estate empire, the first former president to take the stand as a defendant in more than a century.

The United States yesterday announced sanctions on individuals and companies it accused of abetting Russia’s war against Ukraine, targeting entities in Turkey, China and the United Arab Emirates in a bid to disrupt Moscow’s supply chains.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday warned Sudan’s paramilitary force against what Washington said were signs of an “imminent large-scale attack” in North Darfur’s capital where thousands have fled fighting.

A federal judge reinstated a gag order Sunday against former president Donald Trump, US media reported

Actor Matthew Perry, beloved star of the top-rated 1990s US television sitcom Friends as the wise-cracking Chandler Bing, died on Saturday after apparently drowning in a hot tub. He was 54.

The United States and China agreed Friday to work towards setting up a meeting between the two countries’ leaders next month, after President Joe Biden met Beijing’s top diplomat at the White House.

Two US fighter jets struck weapons and ammunition facilities in Syria yesterday in retaliation for attacks on US forces by Iranian-backed militia as concerns grew that the Israel-Hamas conflict may spread in the Middle East.

The US and China have disagreements and need “in-depth” and “comprehensive” dialogue to reduce misunderstandings and stabilize ties, China’s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, said on Thursday, kicking off a long-anticipated visit to Washington.

Seismic waves generated by a meteorite impact on the other side of Mars from where Nasa’s InSight lander sits have provided new clues about the Red Planet’s deep interior, prompting scientists to reappraise the anatomy of Earth’s planetary neighbour.

Sales of new US homes picked up more than anticipated in September, government data showed Wednesday, with the tight supply of real estate pushing more buyers into the market for new properties.

A massive manhunt was under way Thursday for a gunman who a local official said killed at least 22 people and wounded dozens more in mass shootings in the US state of Maine, the deadliest such incident this year

At least 22 people were killed and "many, many more" were injured in shootings in the city of Lewiston, Maine Wednesday evening, local officials reported, with police saying that the gunman was still at large

Melting glaciers, unbearable heat and space junk: a month before crunch climate talks in the United Arab Emirates, a UN report published yesterday warns about irreversible impacts to the planet without drastic changes to connected social and physical systems.

Dozens of US states are suing Meta Platforms and its Instagram unit, accusing them of fuelling a youth mental health crisis by making their social media platforms addictive

During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 - the last time people walked on the moon - US astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan collected about 243 pounds (110.4 kg) of soil and rock samples that were returned to Earth for further study.