Manila: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has extended partial coronavirus curbs in the capital until the end of March, as the country awaits the arrival of vaccines, the presidential spokesman said on Saturday.With southeast Asia’s se...

Washington: People returning to work following the long pandemic will find an array of tech-infused gadgetry to improve workplace safety but which could pose risks for long-term personal and medical privacy.Temperature checks, distance mo...

Claudio Coccoluto, a renowned Italian house music DJ who packed out clubs across Europe in the 1990s, died on Tuesday aged 59, his former employer, Radio Deejay, said.He died "after having fought for a year against a serious illness," Rad...

Islamabad: In view of the declining new cases of COVID-19 in Pakistan, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) has allowed commercial activities across the country but on a limited scale and under all the coronavirus health protoc...

New York: US President Joe Biden has appointed Indian-American Maju Varghese, who was the Chief Operating Officer of his campaign, as his deputy assistant and Director of the White House Military Office.After managing the logistics for th...

Moscow: Mikhail Gorbachev, the historic reformer who presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union, marked his 90th birthday in quarantine on Tuesday and like everyone else is "tired" of virus restrictions, his spokesman said.Congratulat...

Tokyo: Makiko Yamada, a key spokeswoman for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, has resigned after she and other senior bureaucrats were reprimanded for attending expensive dinners hosted by Suga’s son, the government said.Yamada tend...

Islamabad: Pakistan’s apex court on Monday ruled that the upcoming Senate elections would be held through secret ballot under article 226 of the constitution.The article reads that “All elections under the Constitution, other than those o...

Berlin: The former East Germany used amateur sportsmen and women as unknowing guinea pigs for trials of experimental drugs aimed at enhancing performance, according to a German documentary which aired Friday.While a widespread elite sport...

Washington: The United States said Monday it remained ready to meet Iran but was not “dogmatic” about how, after Tehran rejected an EU-proposed gathering.“We remain ready to engage in meaningful diplomacy to achieve a mutual return to com...

Washington: The US House passed an enormous $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package early Saturday, hailed by Democrats as a critical step in funneling new funding towards vaccinations, overburdened local governments, and millions of fami...

DUBAI: On Thursday, February 18, 2021, Australian news sites went dark. News feeds on the Facebook wall of millions of Austalians kicked up blank pages. The FB walls of media companies turned empty. The reason: Facebook tried to block all...

Melbourne: Life across Australia inched toward pre-pandemic normal on Saturday, with New South Wales and South Australia states allowing some dancing and Victoria permitting larger crowds at sporting events.The three states, home to nearl...

Jangebe: Gunmen in Nigeria on Saturday released 27 teenage boys who were kidnapped from their school last week in the north-central state of Niger, while security forces continued to search for more than 300 schoolgirls abducted in a nearb...

New Delhi: India has been witnessing a rise in the COVID-19 active cases over the past few days which is pegged at 1,45,634 comprising 1.32 per cent of the country's total infections, the Union Health Ministry said.According to the minist...

Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday reported 53 deaths and 1,302 new cases of COVID-19 in a period of 24 hours. With these latest figures the country’s total number of cases have surged to 551,842 and death toll to 11,886. According to the Natio...

Melbourne: Major cities in Australia and New Zealand lifted stay-at-home orders for millions of residents Wednesday after successfully using snap lockdowns to quash outbreaks of virulent strains of COVID-19.Authorities said swift action i...

Dubai: India’s largest media body - representing more than 1,000 newspapers with 71 million copies in circulation in 19 languages - has asked Google to share at least 85 per cent of the digital giant’s advertising revenue with publishers....

New Delhi: After batsman Suryakumar Yadav was included in the 19-member India squad that will face England in a five-match T20 series starting on March 12 in Ahmedabad, an old social media post by a member of the team’s current selection p...

Prague: The Czech government said Friday it would ban people from leaving their districts from March 1 as coronavirus infections kept soaring in the world's worst-hit country.It also ordered people to wear face masks outdoors in inhabited...

Sacramento, California: The Medical Board of California said it would investigate a plastic surgeon who appeared in a videoconference for his traffic violation trial while operating.The Sacramento Bee reports Dr. Scott Green appeared Thur...

Patna: The Bihar government has decided to promote 16 million students enrolled in government-run schools without conducting examinations. The government said the decision was taken in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic which badly affecte...

Sydney: Facebook on Friday restored access to news for its Australian users after reaching agreement with the government on a landmark law requiring it and other tech firms to pay for journalistic content.The Facebook pages of Australian...