In what could mark a landmark moment in automation for the world’s factories, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a soft-fingered robot adept enough to handle wires and thr...

Cristiano Ronaldo’s girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez has wowed her social media followers with twerking skills she proudly demonstrated wearing a pink outfit which tightly fit her hips....

General Yusuf Rage escaped unhurt when a blast targeted his convoy in the Somali capital.

Two World Health Organization experts have gone to China for a mission to trace the origin of the pandemic.

The Covid-19 pandemic is set to get “worse and worse” if countries do not stick to strict healthcare guidelines, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The disease has already killed more than half-a-mi...

The European Union is preparing countermeasures on China in response to Beijing’s new security law on Hong Kong, the EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said on Monday. However, diplomats said the likely steps...

Planetary geophysicists have used a new numerical model to determine that the moon is in fact 85 million years younger than previously thought, having formed from the extremely violent and unlikely collision of...

A UK Conservative MP says there could be as many as 10,000 victims of modern slavery working in factories in Leicester. His claim comes as a new report estimates there are around 100,000 such victims nationwide....

Why historical buildings in Iraq's capital Baghdad are under threat and what is being done to save them.

A community in western Indonesia is banding together to support a group of 99 Rohingya refugees, who they rescued from Indonesian waters late last month.

Caught between the fighting and COVID lockdowns, Al Jazeera meets a migrant who has come to Libya for a better life.

After a delay of 15 years, Nigeria's international gas pipeline is finally under way.

Tech giant Google has pledged $10 billion to India to help accelerate digital services, while the cash-loving nation is reportedly witnessing a shift to digital payments in wake of Covid-19....

Israeli police and Jerusalem municipal officials scuffled with protesters demonstrating against PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. Officers dismantled tents set up by the demonstrators outside the premier’s residence,...

A judge in Washington DC has ordered a delay in the execution of convicted murderer Daniel Lewis Lee. It would have been the first federal execution carried out in the US in more than 17 years, had it gone ahead...

A Russian priest who seized control a convent, denies the existence of Covid-19, and criticized church leadership, has now called for Vladimir Putin to resign and transfer to him the position of Russian Presiden...

About a dozen journalists protest 'secrecy' over Safronov's arrest for allegedly passing secrets to the Czech Republic.

Final preparations for the launch from Japan of the United Arab Emirates’ first Mars mission were underway on Monday, although there was a chance of a delay because of bad weather, AP reports.The liftoff of the UAE...

A blaze has broken out in one of the World Trade Center's towers in the capital city of Nigeria, Abuja. Footage from the scene shows a large plume of smoke billowing from the building's top floors....

Ivan Safronov, a former journalist and a current adviser to the head of the Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, has been charged with treason. He is alleged to have passed secret information to the Czechs at the be...

As if a global pandemic and one of the world’s strictest lockdowns wasn’t bad enough, South Africa has been powdered with snow and lashed by gale force winds – and now Cape Town’s streets are clogged with vast p...

Three men convicted of murder are scheduled to die by lethal injection this week at an Indiana prison from Monday.

'Nobody can rewrite history', Thaci says, before answering questions on his alleged war crimes committed in the 1990s.

TV personality Chuck Woolery ignited uproar after claiming there was a conspiracy afoot to distort the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in order to make Donald Trump lose November’s election, a tweet the presiden...

Turkey dismissed prospects of any imminent ceasefire in Libya on Monday, saying any deal incorporating the existing frontlines would not benefit the Ankara-backed Government of National Accord (GNA). Foreign Ministe...

National governments need to increase the taxes imposed on the wealthy, because it’s the only way to “rebalance” a world hit by Covid-19, say dozens of millionaires in an open letter....

The claim that we are making 'wonderful progress' against global poverty is a fallacy based on a colonial mindset.

Shocking eyewitness footage captured during this past weekend’s unrest in Portland shows a Black Lives Matter protester, who claimed to be disabled, wishing death on police officers and their families....

Rights groups say Mohammed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa were tortured to extract false confessions over bombing of convoy.

A surge in Covid-19 cases across Latin America has made it the second-worst hit region for virus deaths, outpacing the US and Canada and trailing only Europe. The situation has been exacerbated by poverty and la...

Azerbaijan and Armenia trade blame over a new escalation at their border that killed at least four Azerbaijani soldiers.

Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio among those targeted days after US sanctioned Chinese officials over alleged abuses in Xinjiang.

NSO Group, the Israeli producer of the spyware kit Pegasus, has emerged victorious from a court battle with Amnesty International after a court in Tel Aviv said it saw no reason to ban export of the notorious pr...

NASA’s asteroid hunters have identified yet another five close flybys due this week but, even more worryingly, they have also identified one space rock which will soon pass between Earth and the Moon....

Leicester’s mayor has slammed the government’s handling of his city’s lockdown, claiming it has no clear measure of success. His criticisms come as it was revealed there are more than 100 weekly Covid-19 flare-u...

The government in Hanoi has agreed to resume commercial flights to and from China after months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Transport Ministry, however, said on Monday that the frequency and timin...

Rights group raises concern over unsafe working conditions for front-line workers, low pay, reprisals in some countries.

Ireland will consider strengthening measures at airports to implement 14-day quarantine restrictions on people traveling from abroad, the tourism minister said on Monday. Opposition politicians and tourism operators...

Russian energy giant Gazprom Neft has started supplying crude from its Novy Port Arctic oil field to China. The first batch amounting to 144,000 tons of crude was delivered to Yantai port, the company announced....

Turkey will inform the UN’s cultural body UNESCO about steps being taken regarding Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told state broadcaster TRT Haber on Monday.On Friday, a Turkish court ru...

A member of Russia’s parliamentary opposition has come up with a radical plan to help improve the country’s birth rate: making state-provided childcare available to parents of babies and toddlers free of charge....

The leader of Spain’s Catalonia Quim Torra has called on the residents of the city of Lleida to follow his government’s home confinement orders, after a rise in coronavirus cases. The statement came despite a Spanis...

Germany can prevent a second wave of the coronavirus in the autumn if people stay vigilant, particularly during the summer vacation season, according to Health Minister Jens Spahn. It is important to remain alert when traveling abroad Spahn...

Rushing to exclude Chinese telecom giant Huawei from the UK market may have serious consequences, including a failure to keep British networks safe, the head of telecommunications company BT has warned....

Several dozen officers and helicopters search for a man armed with a bow and arrow among other weapons.

Beijing has placed sanctions on several US officials, including hawkish Republican Party Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. China said the move was made in response to US sanctions over the treatment of Uyghurs...

At least 43 injured as gunfire followed the blast near National Security Directorate office in Samangan province.

Xu Zhangrun was detained for a week for writing articles critical of President Xi Jinping's handling of the pandemic.