India’s digital platform, which is powering the “world’s largest Covid-19 vaccination drive” in the country, will soon be made available to all countries, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today.

Rescuers were given the all-clear to resume work looking for victims at a collapsed South Florida condo building after demolition crews set off a string of explosives that brought down the last of the building in a plume of dust.

Greece's economy would not close again because of the coronavirus pandemic if it was just to protect an unvaccinated minority, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a newspaper interview released on Sunday.

A suicide bombing attack by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group on a crowded tea shop in Somalia's capital Mogadishu killed 10 people and wounded dozens, the government said yesterday. 

Over 100 migrants, including 29 children, were rescued in a single day as they tried to cross the Channel to reach the British coast on six makeshift boats on Friday, maritime authorities in France said. 

New Zealand researchers have created a weight-loss device that uses magnets to clamp a patient's jaw together -- hailing it as a new tool against obesity despite critics likening it to an instrument of medieval torture. 

1934 - Marie Curie, Polish-French physicist and Nobel Prize winner, died.

Hundreds of Taliban fighters were killed in fierce battles with government forces across several provinces of Afghanistan, officials said yesterday, as Washington announced it would finish withdrawing its troops from the country by the end of August. 

Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan yesterday announced that he is splitting with his wife of 15 years, film-maker Kiran Rao. The A-list couple

Russia reported its fifth record for daily Covid-19 deaths in a row yesterday, as countries around the world rushed to contain the rapid spread of the highly contagious Delta variant. 

The death toll rose to 22 on Friday from the collapse of a Florida condominium tower after the remains of four more victims were found in the rubble, and local officials ordered a second residential complex evacuated after deeming it unsafe.

Top UN officials warned the Security Council on Friday that more than 400,000 people in Ethiopia's Tigray were now in famine and that there was a risk of more clashes in the region despite a unilateral ceasefire by the federal government.

The adverse effects of climate change is wreaking havoc around the world with India, US, Canada and even Antarctica suffering from record heatwaves, which is accelerated by massive deforestations in Brazil’s Amazon and elsewhere.

American troops pulled out of their main military base in Afghanistan yesterday, leaving behind a piece of the World Trade Center they buried 20 years ago in a country that the top US commander has warned may descend into civil war without them. 

The United States expressed concern on Thursday over a report that China is building more than 100 new silos for intercontinental ballistic missiles. The

I'll hand over the president-ial sash to whoever wins the election cleanly, not with fraud.

Call it a space race for billionaires: British mogul Richard Branson one-upped rival Jeff Bezos on Thursday, announcing that he too will blast beyond Earth's

Five suspected rebels and a soldier were killed yesterday in the latest of a series of clashes in Indian Kashmir that have left 17 dead in two weeks, police

1904 - Theodor Herzl, Hungarian-born Zionist leader, died. In 1897 he became first president of the World Zionist Organisation

A 50-year-old man who died after stabbing a Hong Kong police officer was a "lone wolf" attacker who had been politically "radicalised", the city's security chief