British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s premiership was in the balance yesterday as he faced calls from within his Conservative Party to resign after he admitted attending a party at his official residence during a coronavirus lockdown.

 A ransomware attack locked down a US jail, knocking out security cameras and leaving inmates confined to their cells, court documents show.

The United States on Wednesday laid out its most detailed case yet against Beijing’s “unlawful” claims in the South China Sea, rejecting both

Britain's Prince Andrew has renounced his military affiliations and royal patronages, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday.

Britain's domestic spy service MI5 has told the House of Commons speaker that the Chinese Communist Party has been employing a woman to exert improper influence over lawmakers.

France’s interior minister said on Wednesday he had ordered the closure of a mosque on the French Riviera because of anti-Semitic remarks made there.

Covid-19 hospitalisations in the United States have increased by about 33 percent and deaths are up by about 40 percent from a week earlier, the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday.

Sixteen people were burnt to death on Tuesday when a minibus taxi and an SUV collided on a highway in South Africa’s northeastern Limpopo province, a local official said. The SUV driver lost control after a tyre burst and collided head-on with a 22-seater Mercedes-Benz bus, provincial transport ministry spokesman Mike Maringa told AFP yesterday.

The spread of the Omicron variant is pushing Covid towards being an endemic disease that humanity can live with, although it remains a pandemic for now, the EU’s drug watchdog said.

Pope Francis, a lover of classical music, made a surprise visit to a Rome record store to bless the premises -- and picked up some vinyl while he was there.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson yesterday apologised for attending a “bring your own booze” gathering at his official residence during the

Russia laid out its demands for security guarantees in Europe to Nato’s 30 allies yesterday but insisted they were not ultimatums following intense talks with the United States in Geneva that failed to break the deadlock.

A US judge has rejected a bid by Britain's Prince Andrew to dismiss Virginia Giuffre's lawsuit accusing the Duke of York of sexually abusing her when she was 17 and being trafficked by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.

A car bomb exploded on a road leading to the airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, the head of the city's ambulance services said.

A group of independent human rights experts appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council has recently condemned the continued operation of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba.

The United Nations said Tuesday it needed $5 billion in aid for Afghanistan in 2022 to avert a humanitarian catastrophe and offer the ravaged country a future after 40 years of suffering.

More than half of people in Europe are projected to catch Omicron in the next two months, the WHO said yesterday, as millions in China faced fresh lockdowns on the two-year anniversary of the world’s first Covid death.

Fourteen people including six journalists were killed yesterday in a road crash near Lake Victoria in Tanzania, officials said.

The UN mission in Yemen’s rebel-held port of Hodeida yesterday expressed “great concern” over claims it was being used for military purposes and demanded access for an inspection.

The president of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, died early yesterday in hospital in Italy, his spokesman said on Twitter.