The leader of the Islamic State militant group in Syria was killed in a US drone strike, the Pentagon said yesterday.

Fresh waves of Covid infections show the pandemic is “nowhere near over”, the World Health Organization’s chief warned yesterday, voicing concern the virus is “running freely”.

Iran is planning to supply hundreds of drones with combat weapon capabilities to Russia for use in Ukraine, a top US official said Monday.

Ex-finance minister Rishi Sunak, the favourite to become Britain’s next prime minister, kicked off his campaign yesterday promising “honesty”, in an increasingly testy and divisive battle to succeed Boris Johnson.

See the birth and death of stars and groupings of galaxies in this new batch of images.

Farmers in Russia's southern Rostov region are seeing high wheat yields as harvesting gets underway, growers and officials in the region said.

Lawyers for Johnny Depp are urging a Virginia judge to leave his $10 million defamation judgment intact after attorneys for his ex-wife, Amber Heard, asked the judge to set aside the verdict on multiple grounds, including an apparent case of mistaken identity with one of the jurors.

A latest poll by The New York Times and Siena College demonstrates how precarious US President Joe Biden’s political position is.

The leader of Islamic State in Syria, who is one of the top five leaders of the militant group, has been killed in a U.S. air strike, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.

An ex-Saudi intelligence chief described Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “a psychopath” during an interview with CBS News that aired a few days prior to US President Joe Biden visiting the Kingdom.

Iran has arrested internationally renowned filmmaker Jafar Panahi amid crackdown on the country’s celebrated cinema industry.

Elon Musk said on Monday it was time for Donald Trump to "hang up his hat and sail into the sunset," days after the former US President mocked the billionaire at a political rally.

Sri Lanka's parliament will reconvene on July 15 and a new president will be elected on July 20, the parliamentary speaker said on Monday, as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa plans to resign on Wednesday amid a devastating economic crisis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday extending a simplified Russian naturalisation process to all citizens of Ukraine, a document published on the government's website showed.

A tense fifth bull run at Pamplona’s San Fermín Festival left three people gored and three others with bruises on Monday, a Spanish Red Cross spokesman said.

For the first time, a pharmaceutical company has asked for permission to sell a birth control pill over the counter in the US.

Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated Friday by a gunman who opened fire on him as he delivered a campaign speech on a street in western Japan.

A major gas pipeline from Russia to Germany was shutting down for annual maintenance on Monday amid German concern that Russia may not resume the flow of gas as scheduled.

The world's population is expected to reach eight billion on Nov 15, the UN forecast on Monday (July 11) in a report that said India will surpass China as the most populous country on earth in 2023.

A Russian missile struck an apartment building in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, killing at least 15 people as Moscow's forces sought to consolidate their control over the Donbas region.