Washington: The United States and Germany on Wednesday unveiled an agreement on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline under which Berlin pledged to respond to any attempt by Russia to use energy as a weapon against Ukraine and other Central and E...

Schuld, Germany: Chancellor Angela Merkel is to visit flood-ravaged areas in Germany on Sunday to survey the damage and meet survivors, after days of extreme downpours in western Europe left at least 183 people dead and dozens missing.Mer...

Walt Disney Co. is requiring masks to be worn indoors again at its Florida and California theme parks, as the resurgent coronavirus sets back America's push to return to life as normal.Disney, the world's largest theme-park operator, reop...

SYDNEY: Australia’s prime minister apologised for a sluggish COVID-19 vaccination programme on Thursday, while the country’s most populous state reported its biggest one-day spike in infections in 16 months and warned cases would likely ri...

Nairobi: A lion caused panic on Wednesday after straying from its habitat in Nairobi National Park into a crowded neighbourhood during morning rush hour south of the Kenyan capital.The young male cat was spotted by panicked residents in a...

Islamabad: Pakistan achieved a significant vaccination goal by administering 525,168 vaccine doses in a single day on June 12 amid fears of a deadly fourth wave of coronavirus pandemic.“For the first time, we crossed half a million doses...

ISLAMABAD: A South Korean climber was feared dead on Tuesday just days after becoming the first disabled person to climb all 14 of the world’s highest mountains, officials in Pakistan said.Kim Hong-bin went missing Monday after falling in...

Los Angeles: Eight people were killed in a pileup of almost two dozen vehicles after a sandstorm reduced visibility to zero on a busy desert highway in the western US state of Utah, officials said Monday.Children were among the dead, and...

Miami: The death toll from the collapse of an apartment building in Florida has risen to 64, officials said Thursday, with 76 people still missing and presumed dead.Miami-Dade county mayor Daniella Levine Cava gave the new toll Thursday a...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: A critically endangered Sumatran elephant has been found decapitated with its tusks missing in Indonesia, the conservation agency said Monday, as it opened a poaching investigation.The rotting carcass was discovered...

More than half of European adults fully vaccinatedBrussels: The EU on Thursday said 200 million Europeans had been fully vaccinated, more than half of the adult population but still short of a 70 percent target it had set for the summer....

Ulsan: Using a toilet can pay for your coffee or buy you bananas at a university in South Korea, where human waste is being used to help power a building.Cho Jae-weon, an urban and environmental engineering professor at the Ulsan National...

Rupganj, Bangladesh: A fire in a Bangladesh food factory killed at least 52 people, police said Friday, as emergency services brought out bodies even as the building was still in flames.The blaze broke out in the factory in Rupganj, near...

Karachi: The Sindh government has approved a proposal to bar the police from arresting anyone merely on the basis that his or her name has been mentioned in a criminal case or First Information Report (FIR).A meeting of the Sindh cabinet...

Karachi: TikTok was running again in Pakistan Saturday after a provincial court lifted suspension of the popular social media service but ordered it to address complaints that it hosted objectionable content.The Pakistan Telecoms Authorit...

Karachi: The Sindh government has carried out development work in the historical old city area of Karachi where “Wazir Mansion”, the birthplace of Founder of the Nation Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, is situated to save the area from fl...

Mumbai: At least 22 people were killed in 11 different incidents as rains wreaked havoc on Mumbai and Mumbai Metropolitan Region since midnight, the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) Disaster Control said here on Sunday.As Mumbai s...

Thiruvananthapuram: Students were deeply affected when COVID-19 disrupted classes in March 2020, towards the end of the last academic year in India. And then, almost all of the 2020-21 academic year was a washout as schools remained closed...

Karachi: Former Sindh chief minister and provincial governor, Mumtaz Ali Bhutto, died after a protracted illness on Sunday. He was 88.Bhutto was under treatment at a privately run hospital in Karachi.He was the cousin of former prime min...

JAKARTA: Indonesia is facing a coronavirus surge as hospitals grapple with soaring cases amid widespread shortages of oxygen.The country registered 1,040 confirmed deaths on Wednesday, the deadliest day since the start of the pandemic.Ho...

Patna A man from Bihar, who is credited with arranging the funerals of around 250 COVID-19 victims, is among 100 people from across India chosen to feature on Dettol products as a “protector”.Dettol, India’s most trusted germ protection b...

Dubai: India has pulled in aviation industry heavyweights to come up with solutions to revive an ailing airline industry, which remains hardest hit among all sectors of the country’s economy. The new committee features Rahul Bhatia of Indi...

Tokyo: An American father-son duo who helped former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn flee Japan were sentenced to 20 months and two years in prison by a Tokyo court on Monday.The sentences are the first to be handed down in Japan in the Nissan s...