The Kerala High Court on Friday granted anticipatory bail to filmmaker Aisha Sultana in the sedition case registered against her by Kavaratti Police of Lakshadweep. The bench observed that "Prima facie, the offences alleged by the prosecuti...

A majority of Gibraltarians have supported the easing of a strict abortion law in a referendum, the local parliament said on Friday. Around 62% of voters who took part backed the change in Thursday's referendum in the British territory on t...

Paralympic swimmer Alice Tai, who was part of Britain's gold medal-winning women's 4x100m medley team in 2016, has pulled out of the Tokyo Games due to an elbow injury. "Competing at Tokyo 2020 has been my main goal for the last five years,...

Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc's New York initial public offering (IPO) to raise up to $4 billion has been fully covered on the first day of its bookbuild, according to four sources with direct knowledge of the matter. The sourc...

Indonesia has sufficient oxygen supplies for COVID-19 patients, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said on Friday, responding to concerns about pressure on supplies due to a surge in coronavirus infections in the country.

Equestrian rider Andrew Hoy will make his eighth Olympic appearance, the most by an Australian, after he was named in the country's team for the Tokyo Games on Friday. Three-times gold medallist Hoy becomes the 13th athlete in Olympic histo...

Third floor ceiling of five-storey building in south Mumbai collapses; 35 rescued, nobody injured: Fire brigade.

Researchers at the University of Houston's Air Quality Forecasting and Modeling Lab have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that is claimed to forecast ozone levels with accuracy up to two weeks in advance, compared to curr...

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Multan Sultans won their maiden Pakistan Super League title by thumping 2017 champion Peshawar Zalmi by 47 runs in the final.

Brody Malone backed up his win at the U.S. National Championships by taking the lead after Day 1 of the United States Olympic gymnastics trials on Thursday, as the Tokyo men's team began to come into focus. Malone, who claimed his first nat...

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Friday that Japan will give 1 million additional doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine each to Taiwan and Vietnam.

Downtown Sydney and the city's eastern suburbs, which include Bondi Beach, will go into a one week lockdown from midnight Friday as authorities struggle to contain a spike in the highly contagious Delta COVID-19 virus variant in the city.

The All Blacks have lost Braydon Ennor for their July tests against Tonga and Fiji after the centre had his appendix removed, local media reported on Friday. The 23-year-old's absence is a further blow to coach Ian Foster, who is without Ja...

The United Nations on Thursday accused Israel of flagrantly violating international law by expanding settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, saying settlements are illegal and urging the country's new government to halt their enlar...

The virus that causes COVID-19 could have started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before the first case was identified in the central city of Wuhan, a new study showed on Friday.

Rescue crews near Miami searched through tons of rubble on Thursday for anyone who may have survived the predawn collapse of part of an oceanfront apartment tower, with officials reporting at least one person found dead and nearly 100 more...

New Zealand said on Friday that it plans to strengthen its hate speech laws, and increase penalties for inciting hatred and discrimination, in response to the attack by a white supremacist in Christchurch two years ago that killed 51 Muslim...

The Big Apple won't truly be back until employees return to their offices in significant numbers. So far, that isn’t remotely close to happening, especially not in still-ghostly Midtown.

It's a good thing President Joe Biden has announced an anti-crime agenda -- all while refusing to admit the Democrats have fuel America's rising crime rates for the sake of police reform, Rich Lowry writes. 

Guess who suddenly wants to give more money to the police: That's right — Democrats and the left, with President Joe Biden urging that COVID funds be used to hire cops.

From a headline from CNN to some comments from Stacey Abrams over voting requirements, The Post's Editorial Board tackles the latest in media and politics.

When Joe Biden was sworn in as America’s 46th president, he laid his hand on an ancient Douay-Rheims family Bible, a translation made by Catholics in France, where they’d taken refuge from the Reformation across the Channel. In doing so, th...

Britain will next month publish plans to allow fully vaccinated people to travel unrestricted to all countries except those with the highest COVID-19 risk, in a boost for a travel industry wrecked by the pandemic. DEATHS AND INFECTIONS

The security of Taiwan is directly linked with that of Japan, Japan's Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said in an interview with Bloomberg News. "The peace and stability of Taiwan is directly connected to Japan and we are closely monitoring tie...

An own goal in the first half and a late second from Edinson Cavani gave Uruguay a 2-0 win over Bolivia on Thursday and guaranteed their place in the last eight of the Copa America.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the El Paso, Texas, central processing center, which is a U.S. Customs & Border Protection Facility, and meet migrants during her visit to the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday, spokesperson Symone Sa...

Britney Spears has made clear how frustrated she is with the legal arrangement that has controlled her life for 13 years, but the singer will need patience before finding freedom. Legal experts say that wanting out of a court-appointed cons...

In Hong Kong, the Chinese Communist Party has won: It has forced the closure of Apple Daily, the former British colony’s biggest pro-democracy news outlet. Management cites concern for its staff’s “safety”; Thursday’s edition was the paper’...

Anyone who still can’t see the danger in promoting racial thinking in America’s schools — particularly of the sort that underlies critical race theory — should listen to Novalee. In a video circulating this week, a 9-year-old Minnesota girl...

New York Post readers weigh in on President Joe Biden’s strategy for combatting the rising crime and gun violence in the US and the election of hardliner Ebrahim RaisiIran as Iran’s new president.

Biden and Pelosi hold a Senate deal hostage to the rest of their agenda.

Ellen Weintraub shows the dangers of the Democratic ‘voter reform’ bill.

Results in the primary suggest the next mayor is unlikely to be an AOC-style extreme progressive.

Blank-check firm Spinning Eagle Acquisition Corp, backed by former Hollywood executives Harry Sloan and Jeff Sagansky, on Thursday upsized its offering to $2 billion after the Nasdaq eased the process for such companies to spin off new enti...

Around 275 million people used drugs worldwide last year, while over 36 million people suffered from drug use disorders, according to the World Drug Report released Thursday by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna.

Congress on Thursday overturned a set of regulations enacted in the final days of the Trump administration that effectively allowed payday lenders to avoid state laws capping interest rates.

Brazil recorded 73,602 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, along with 2,032 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Thursday.

Republicans negotiating a bipartisan infrastructure deal are walking into a trap set by Democrats.

The billionaire philanthropist’s third round of charitable giving this year will focus on colleges attended by students of color

On Tuesday, residents of the Lynn Drive neighborhood in Preston attended a

The failure of the "For the People Act" is another instance of our government being held hostage by one or a few senators. No one should be able to stop Senate debate or a vote by pushing a...

I enjoyed reading Sunday’s article regarding Pfizer’s...

While all this is going on, Pope Francis goes humbly about the business of exemplifying a church that serves the people rather than the other way around.

Britain will next month publish plans to allow fully vaccinated people to travel unrestricted to all countries except those with the highest COVID-19 risk, in a boost for a travel industry wrecked by the pandemic.

An indigenous group in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan on Thursday said it had found the unmarked graves of up to 751 people at a now-defunct Catholic residential school, just weeks after a similar discovery rocked the country. Prime...

U.S. stock indexes set fresh records on Thursday and European shares closed near all-time highs, fueled by supportive U.S. jobless claims data and a breakthrough in infrastructure spending talks in Washington.

The bad news for travellers is that they need both sides – politicians at home and internationally – to be pushing green for go. One side is not enough