France will launch a campaign for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty as part of its upcoming presidency of the European Union, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa used her new prominence to criticise Facebook as a threat to democracy, saying the social media giant fails to protect against the spread of hate and disinformation and is "biased against facts".

More than 100 people are dead or missing in the sinking of a boat on the Congo River, provincial authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo said Saturday.

Ten people including three Bangladeshis were injured in two explosives-laden drone attacks at King Abdullah airport in the southern Saudi city of Jizan late on Friday and early on Saturday, the Saudi-led coalition said.

The United States will accept the use by international visitors of Covid-19 vaccines authorised by US regulators or the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said late on Friday.

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday branded rich nations’ vaccine hogging as immoral and stupid, saying choking off poorer countries’ access to jabs risked undermining their own defences against the pandemic.

Journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia yesterday won the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for freedom of expression at a time when democracy is increasingly under threat.

Nigerian security forces have rescued nearly 200 kidnap victims during raids on camps of criminal gangs in dense forests in the country’s northwest, police said.

Former president Donald Trump has told four former senior aides not to comply with a congressional probe into the January 6 attack on Congress, US media reported Thursday.

Only a third of the funds urgently sought for Afghanistan by the United Nations have been disbursed, the UN refugees chief said yesterday, warning of a potential humanitarian catastrophe.

Daniel Craig may be saying goodbye as James Bond, but his iconic Aston Martin is about to be given a new lease of life, for an ultra-cool $1 million.

Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, journalists from the Philippines and Russia respectively, have received congratulations from around the world on winning the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to protect freedom of expression.

The United Nations human rights office yesterday said it is concerned the military in Myanmar could be preparing an imminent attack aimed at its opponents amid a build-up of heavy weapons and troops in areas of the country where the internet has also been shut down.

Tea-to-software Indian giant Tata is buying back Air India, 89 years after founding it as Tata Air and half a century following its nationalisation, the government said yesterday.

Philippines journalist Maria Ressa and Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

All eight winners of the 2021 Nobel Prizes in medicine, chemistry, physics and literature have been men, re-igniting a recurring debate about diversity in the highly coveted awards, particularly those in science.

The United States and China have agreed in principle for their presidents to hold a virtual meeting before year’s end, a senior US administration official said on Wednesday, after high-level talks meant to improve communication between the two big powers.

1912 - Montenegro declared war on Turkey, beginning the First Balkan War.

When her 2-year-old started feeling sick early last week, Tiffany Jackson didn’t think it might be Covid-19.

Facebook’s previous major scandals barely dented its global dominance, but experts said the tech giant may have hit a red line this time: evidence that it knew children using its apps were at risk of being harmed.