Katalin Kariko of Hungary and Drew Weissman of the United States won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines

Pakistan police busted an organ trafficking ring run by a disgraced doctor and a motor mechanic, who conducted at least 328 illegal kidney transplants, authorities said

Marking the International Day of Non-Violence, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday said it commemorates not only the birth of Mahatma Gandhi but also the timeless values he championed: mutual respect and understanding, justice, and the power of peaceful action

Indonesia launched Southeast Asia's first high-speed railway on Monday, a delayed, multibillion-dollar project backed by China that President Joko Widodo hailed as "a symbol of our modernisation"

Donald Trump faces fresh legal danger on Monday as a civil fraud trial against the former president and two of his sons begins in New York, threatening the Republican frontrunner's business empire as he campaigns to retake the White House with four criminal cases looming

At least nine people were killed and 40 more injured in Mexico Sunday after the roof of a church came crashing down, local officials said

Far from a pariah state after the assassination of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia features ever more prominent on the world stage. How do Saudi activists keep fighting when the world is looking away?

At least 10 Cuban migrants were killed and 25 injured on Sunday when a cargo truck carrying them overturned in southern Mexico, local officials reported, the latest fatal crash involving US-bound migrants

A United Nations mission arrived in Nagorno-Karabakh yesterday, Azerbaijan said, after almost the entire ethnic-Armenian population fled since Baku recaptured the breakaway enclave.

The lawyer of former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan alleged on Saturday that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is being “mentally tortured” in the Adiala Jail, ARY News reported.

A populist pro-Moscow party that wants to stop military aid to Ukraine and is critical of the EU and Nato has won Slovakia’s election, results showed yesterday.

At least 13 people have been killed in a fire in adjoining nightclubs in Murcia in southeast Spain, emergency services said yesterday, adding that rescuers were still searching for people unaccounted for after the blaze.

India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said today it is difficult to put a limit on the India-US relationship, and that the two countries now see each other as “desirable, optimal, and comfortable partners.

Four people have been arrested and two have been detained by India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the horrific murder case of two students in Manipur in July, whose photo surfaced on social media last week.

Russia was targeted by another wave of Ukrainian drones and shelling yesterday, wounding three people and forcing an airport to divert flights, officials said.

Two attackers detonated a bomb in front of Turkish government buildings in Ankara yesterday in an assault that left both of them dead and two police officers wounded, in what authorities called the capital’s first terrorist attack in years.

Turkey's government said on Sunday two terrorists carried out a bomb attack in front of the Interior Ministry buildings in Ankara, adding one of them died in the explosion and the other was "neutralised" by authorities there

The inconspicuous Biedermeier stone house with the address Salzburger Vorstadt 15 is painted in friendly beige. Iron bars block the windows on the first floor. A bus stop catches the eye, and next to it a waist-high memorial stone made of granite

The Afghanistan embassy in New Delhi announced on Saturday night that it was shutting down its operations from today, citing "lack of support" by the Indian government, failure to meet expectations in serving Afghanistan's interests, and reduction in personnel and resources

Scientists hope a new type of vaccine could help treat autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), Type 1 diabetes, allergic asthma, or Crohn's disease