The Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl, carrying 1486 containers, including 25 tonnes of nitric acid, was anchored off Sri Lanka when a fire erupted.

We must not sully our reputation in Afghanistan by leaving our allies in the lurch.

Keep Venice afloat but don’t turn it into Disneyland, say a group of celebrities putting forward a 10-point plan to save the city.

A four-day holiday, a year of celebrations, star-studded concerts and beacons lit up across the Commonwealth are planned to mark Her Majesty’s 70th year on the throne.

Shifting between seemingly contradictory alliances, he has been called a right-wing extremist, a pragmatist and an opportunist.

The surprise eruption on White Island, or Whakaari, in 2019 killed 22 people from several countries including Australia.

The former US president’s blog page, launched last month after major social media platforms banned him, has been removed from his website.

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She even had a “caring dress” which she wore often because children were attracted to its floral pattern.

With Scott Morrison visiting the south-east Asian city-state next week, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has flagged a desire to “stay connected to the world”. 

US President Joe Biden has announced an all-out push to vaccinate more Americans against COVID-19, including offering free child care for those getting the jab.

Under the agreement, Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett will split the job of prime minister in a rotation. Bennett will serve the first two years, while Lapid is to serve the final two years.

The mission, the first in decades, will study the atmosphere and geologic history of Earth’s closest planetary neighbour.

The US intelligence and military community has long had the capability to damage computer servers used by private hackers in other countries, but largely refrained.

Separately, hackers believed to be backed by the Chinese government broke into New York City’s subway system’s networks in April, a report revealed.

An elephant expert said the incident was the longest-distance migration of wild elephants recorded in China and it was possible their leader “lacks experience and led the whole group astray”.

It came as authorities revealed three-quarters of adults in Britain had received their first COVID-19 vaccine dose, and nearly half the population was fully vaccinated.

The largest warship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances.

The correspondence from March and April 2020 opens a window to the world of the American health official during some of the most frantic days of the crisis.

California teen Hailey Morinico said she didn’t push that bear “that hard” off her garden wall, but the TikTok footage has made her an overnight sensation.

The rare, iron-based mineral previously had been found only in actual rocks.

Giovanni Brusca once dissolved a teenage boy in acid because his father turned informer. But Brusca didn’t get a life sentence - because he too cooperated.

So called “red list” arrivals will pass through the airport’s Terminal 3, which was closed in April 2020 as international air travel plummeted, leaving Heathrow — previously Europe’s busiest airport — largely empty.

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The Chinese President called for officials of all levels to improve their international communication.

The eviction threat, currently in the courts, was a cited by Hamas as part of its reason for firing rockets at Israel in May.

The air force said on Tuesday its radar picked up the jets flying in an “in-trail” formation near Malaysian airspace in eastern Sarawak state on Borneo the day before.

Talukder would secretly enter the Sundarbans mangrove forest and hunt wild animals despite having being banned from entering the forest long ago, said one park conservator.

The cyberattack caused its Australian operations to shut down and has stopped livestock slaughter at its plants in several US states.

Republicans and the oil industry have long been trying to open the wildlife refuge, considered sacred by the Indigenous Gwich’in, for drilling.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson now faces the dilemma of whether to prioritise the economy and ease the rules or to stay cautious and delay the final step out of lockdown.

Pope Francis has issued the most extensive revision to Catholic Church law in four decades, insisting that bishops take action against clerics who abuse minors and vulnerable adults, commit fraud or attempt to ordain women.

The World Health Organisation has approved the Sinovac Biotech vaccine for emergency use, only the second Chinese vaccine to be given the green light to fight COVID-19.

It’s an unusual story, but the tale of Florida’s Jim Strickland and his two wives is a testament to how love and compassion can triumph over division.

For one thing, the Coalition should re-examine its policy of deporting criminals who, while born in New Zealand, have no real connection to that country.

The National Health Commission did not reveal how the man had been infected with the virus.

“The fact that the US Deputy Secretary of State is visiting speaks volumes to Cambodia’s degree of discomfort at the position it has found itself in, in relation to China.”

Before he published has masterwork Principia in 1687 setting out the laws of gravitation and motion, there were revisions. And lots of notes.

Including the workers’ family members, some 3000 more Afghans could settle in the UK under the plan.

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Experts are debating whether they show an adult Peanuts’ Lucy Van Pelt.

The New Zealand government is currently running an ambitious campaign to eradicate all introduced predators by 2050.

Known generally by the public as the UK, South Africa, Brazil and India variants, the strains have now been given the letters Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta.

The dogs being trained to sniff out coronavirus have accurately detected it 96.2 per cent of the time in controlled settings.

Under the Republican bill, a judge could void a candidate’s victory if the number of fraudulent votes cast could change the outcome, even if no fraud was proven to have affected the result.

The Russian embassy did not respond to emails and phone calls seeking an explanation for why its mission in a country of 10.7 million people had been so big.

One critic argued that EU officials were adopting “techno-solutionism” to sideline moral considerations in dealing with the complex issue of migration.

The group, Open Russia, said on Thursday it had decided to end its operations in Russia to protect its members from the risk of being jailed.

Banned by the United States and Australia and shut out by other western nations, Huawei is ramping up its 5G push into south-east Asia.

More restrictions to deal with a growing COVID-19 outbreak have also been imposed on Ho Chi Minh city, where people are only allowed to leave home for necessary activities.