Spain is spearheading calls for governments to start tackling Covid-19 as any other endemic respiratory virus like seasonal flu, despite WHO opposition and warnings that the approach is premature. 

Allies of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson closed ranks yesterday after a day of high drama prompted second thoughts among some Conservatives about dethroning their embattled leader. 

Russia yesterday condemned US President Joe Biden’s vow of a “severe” response to any invasion of Ukraine as “destabilising”, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken opened talks with key European allies for a common strategy against Moscow. 

A stampede at a church gathering in Liberia's capital Monrovia killed 29 people overnight, the deputy information minister told state radio on Thursday.

The US State Department has cleared Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to send US-made missiles and other weapons to Ukraine, three sources familiar with the decision said, as US President Joe Biden predicted Russia would move on Ukraine.

Superbug infections killed 1.2 million people in 2019, according to a study published Thursday (January 20), which authors described as the most comprehensive assessment of the impact of antimicrobial resistance to date.

Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has turned down the offer of a job at the United Nations, her office said on Wednesday, a month after she stepped down as Europe's most powerful politician after 16 years at the helm.

The University of Michigan said it would pay $490 million to 1,050 people to resolve claims of sexual assault against a former sports doctor, in a settlement spanning decades and involving mostly male athletes as victims.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday he thinks Russia will invade Ukraine and warned President Vladimir Putin that his country would pay a “dear price” in lives lost and a possible cutoff from the global banking system if it does.

Popular children's tune, "Baby Shark Dance" has made it to the Guinness World Records as the most-viewed YouTube video of all time.

Three Indian naval personnel were killed in an explosion on one of the country’s oldest destroyers at a naval dockyard in Mumbai, authorities said. The blast

A Russia-led military contingent completed its withdrawal from Kazakhstan as the country lifted a state of emergency yesterday after unprecedented unrest in

Tonga finished removing a thick coat of ash from an international runway yesterday after days of painstaking effort, clearing the way for desperately needed

The past seven years have been the hottest on record, the United Nations confirmed yesterday, adding that 2021 temperatures remained high despite the

More than 100 millionaires made an unusual plea yesterday: “Tax us now”. 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, fighting to save his premiership amid a storm over a series of lockdown parties in Downing Street, yesterday told parliament that he would not resign. 

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday said that Russia could launch a new attack on Ukraine at “very short notice” as he met the country’s president on the first leg of a new diplomatic push to avert war. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he is open to mending Turkey's frayed ties with Israel following a reported drop in US support for a controversial Mediterranean gas pipeline.

Auction house Sotheby’s Dubai has unveiled a diamond that’s literally from out of this world.

Southwest Airlines Co was sued for USD 10 million yesterday by a 68-year-old Florida woman who said the carrier ejected her from a flight because she periodically needed to remove her mask to drink water.