Russia’s defense minister on Tuesday accused US bombers of rehearsing a nuclear strike on Russia from two different directions earlier this month and complained that the planes had come within 20 km (12.4 miles) of the Russian border.

JPMorgan Chase and Co's Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon joked that his bank would last longer than China's Communist Party while speaking in Boston Tuesday.

Investors are betting that newly renominated Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will need to step up the pace at which the central bank is normalizing monetary policy to better grapple with surging consumer prices.

Spain’s top research institution reached a licensing deal yesterday that paves the way for its Covid-19 antibody test to be produced more cheaply in developing countries.

UK, US and Nato officials said on Monday they were confident of recovering a stealth fighter that crashed after take-off from the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier before Russia gets to it.

Morocco’s coast guard rescued more than 140 African and Asian migrants in difficulty aboard makeshift boats early Monday, a military source said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday it feared Covid deaths in Europe would rise from the current 1.5 million to 2.2 million by March 2022 if the current trend continues.

UN projections of how much current climate policies and national pledges to cut carbon pollution will slow global warming are more uncertain than widely assumed, researchers reported Monday.

1859 - English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes “On the Origin of Species” radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology.

Forty-six people, including a dozen minors, were killed after a bus caught fire south of the Bulgarian capital early yesterday, officials said, in the country’s deadliest road accident in years.

The US stands out among democracies for incomplete legislation for the recognition of human rights and for their protection.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett yesterday signalled readiness to step up Israel’s confrontation with Iran and reiterated that his country would not be bound by any new Iranian nuclear deal with world powers.

Nearly half the world’s population suffer from poor nutrition linked to too much or not enough food, a global assessment said yesterday with wide-ranging impacts on health and the planet.

At least 45 people were killed when a bus with North Macedonian plates caught fire on a highway in western Bulgaria on Tuesday, officials said.

Australia formally embarked yesterday on a hotly-contested programme to equip its navy with nuclear-powered submarines in a new defence alliance with Britain and the United States.

The United States must “accept reality” and agree to lift its sanctions on Iran during next week’s nuclear talks in Vienna, according to Tehran’s top negotiator.

Our research shows what we have long suspected and feared, namely that the destructive secondary impacts of this pandemic have damaged the fabric of our society and will be felt for years, if not decades, to come.”

A vintage Eric Clapton guitar sold for $625,000 in New York at a weekend auction of rock memorabilia that fetched nearly $5 million in total, Julien Auctions announced.

Ten members of Iran’s military went on trial Sunday in connection with the downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet in 2020, the judiciary said.

Tunisian authorities said Sunday they had intercepted more than 200 migrants trying to reach the Italian coast, in nine separate operations.