Vaccine hesitancy has risen sharply, opinion polls show, just weeks away from the start of a mass inoculation programme and as the country fights the deadliest Covid-19 outbreak.

SYDNEY: Tasmanian devils have been born in the wild on Australia's mainland 3,000 years after the marsupials disappeared from the continent, conservation groups said Tuesday, raising hopes that a major rewilding effort could succeed.

SHANGHAI: Chinese tech giant Huawei on Tuesday said it would launch a long-awaited new operating system for smartphones next week, part of an all-out push into the software industry aimed at weathering US sanctions and taking on Google's Android.

GOMA, DR Congo:- Five people were found choked to death on toxic fumes from the eruption of eastern DR Congo's Nyiragongo volcano on Monday, as strong aftershocks rocked the city of Goma.

SHANGHAI: A shepherd has been hailed as a hero in China after it emerged that he saved six stricken runners during an ultramarathon in which 21 other competitors died.

An executive decree allowing the government to borrow up to 500 billion baht to fight Covid-19 has come into effect.

The anti-government Samakkhi Prachachon group on Tuesday submitted a letter to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, calling for him to resign over his poor governance for the past seven years.

NARATHIWAT: Twenty-eight AK-102 rifles have disappeared from a territorial defence company in Muang district of this southern border province.

Two light rail transit trains collided at an underground section near the famed Petronas twin towers in Malaysia’s capital of Kuala Lumpur, injuring more than 200 passengers in a rare mishap that has prompted a full government probe.

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A woman drowned in a flash flood that hit Wang Nam Khieo district following heavy rain which started on Monday afternoon and continued until Tuesday morning.