Paris: The world began ushering in the New Year with pandemic controls muting celebrations for billions of people eager to bid farewell to a virus-rid...
San Diego: President Donald Trump on Thursday extended pandemic-related bans on green cards and work visas to large groups of applicants through March...
London: Britain's long and sometimes acrimonious divorce from the European Union ended on Thursday with an economic split that leaves the EU smaller a...
Bilkis Dadi, the octogenarian who was the face of the months-long anti-citizenship law protest in the Delhi's Shaheen Bagh neighborhood, has now found...
DUBAI: Jordan has reduced fines for expired work permits for expats by 80 percent, state news agency Petra has reported.The discount is valid until Ja...
Sanaa: A large explosion struck the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, shortly after a plane carrying the newly formed Cabinet landed there,...
San Francisco: To take on Swedish music streaming giant Spotify, Amazon has acquired podcast publisher Wondery, one of the last major independent podc...
In Norway, a landslide in a village has buried homes under dark mud, injuring 10 people and leaving 11 missing.Rescue workers are continuing to search...
In the UK, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been approved for use, with the first doses due to be given soon amid rising coronavirus cases. The gove...
Washington: US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has received the first dose of the Moderna vaccine against the novel coronavirus.According to the Bi...
New York: US President-elect Joe Biden has named Aisha Shah, a former staffer in his campaign, as the partnerships manager for his White House Office ...
US President-elect Joe Biden has alleged that agencies critical to US security have suffered "enormous damage" at the hands of the Trump administratio...
Ambassadors from 27 European Union (EU) Member States yesterday unanimously approved the EU-UK post-Brexit trade deal. The deal is likely to become la...
Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has extended the suspension of all international commercial flights and entry into the Kingdom through land and seaports for anot...
Washington: Delivering a powerful blow to President Donald Trump, the US House of Representatives has voted by an overwhelming majority to override hi...
Washington/Beijing: US President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill that reaffirms the right of Tibetans to choose a successor to the Dalai Lama ...
US President Donald Trump has signed into law a Coronavirus relief and spending package bill, averting a partial government shutdown.President Trump h...
Niamey (Niger): Niger voted Sunday in presidential and legislative elections that could see the West African countrys first democratic transition of p...
China will hold annual meetings of its top legislative and political advisory bodies in March next year, the official News Agency reported Saturday.Th...
US President Donald Trump has signed into law a Coronavirus relief and spending package bill, averting a partial government shutdown.President Trump h...
Beijing: A Chinese research team has discovered 591 high-velocity stars based on data from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telesco...
Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar will be on a two-day visit to Qatar beginning today. He will meet Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim...
Gaza City: Israeli aircraft struck several sites in the Gaza Strip early Saturday after Palestinian militants fired two rockets toward southern Israel...
In Nepal, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has inducted five new ministers into his Cabinet yesterday. A total of seven ministers resigned from their post...
Pope Francis has called on world leaders to ensure unfettered access to Coronavirus vaccines for everyone. In a Christmas Day address delivered online...
Kathmandu: Nepal's Supreme Court on Friday issued a show-cause notice to Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli-led government, asking it to submit a written c...
Karachi: British-born al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and his three aides, whose release in the abduction and murder case of US journalist Dan...
Riyadh: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia decided to Saudize 30 percent of the accounting jobs in private sectors.It was announced by Ahmad Al-Rajhi, the Sa...
Beirut: Israeli jets flew very low over parts of Lebanon early Friday, terrifying residents on Christmas Eve, some of whom reported seeing missiles in...
Paris: Wearing hard hats and protective suits, members of the choir of Notre Dame Cathedral sang inside the medieval Paris landmark for the first time...
Which political party will win the Delhi Assembly polls to be held on Feb 5?