Prime Minister Narendra Modi promises to ramp up vaccine procurement to try to vaccinate 75 per cent of Indians sooner than in two years.

The Kangs are considering moving to Canada in the hopes of reuniting with their little boy after 15 months apart.

Bdelloid rotifers may be the toughest, tiniest animal you’ve never heard of, but scientists say they can survive anything.

Authorities said a young man was arrested in the parking lot of a nearby mall after the incident on Sunday night in the Ontario city of London.

Already letters from the European Commission in English are going unanswered.

Carroll - who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her two decades ago - sued him for defamation over his insulting denials while president.

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The Rajabi family lives in the basement, third floor and part of the second. The Tanami family lives on the first floor and rest of the second.

The British PM has defended a cricketer suspended over historic racist tweets and refused to condemn fans who boo the national soccer team for taking the knee.

Nearly 76 per cent of adults in the UK have had at least one shot of vaccines by AstraZeneca, Pfizer or Moderna, and 52 per cent two doses. 

Recovering the funds reflects what US officials say is an increasingly aggressive approach to deal with a ransomware threat that in the last month has targeted critical industries around the world.

The US Food and Drug Administration’s controversial decision delighted advocacy groups but defied the wishes of many top experts in the field.

The World Health Organisation says Australia and other countries face a “genuine dilemma” about how to move away from their zero-COVID approach and are now more at risk than other countries as a result of their elimination strategies.

An express train crashed into another that had derailed in Pakistan before dawn, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.

Jeff Bezos said on Monday that he and his brother Mark would fly on the first crewed space flight from his rocket company Blue Origin.

The Prime Minister will have to clear a COVID-19 test on arrival at Changi airport on Thursday before a fly-in-fly-out visit to the city-state in lockdown.

For the next two decades, the scenic city and tourist magnet is going to look more like one gigantic construction site.

The campaign for the midterm elections has been one of the bloodiest in recent history: 97 politicians had been killed and 935 attacked.

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The author of the 1991 feminist classic The Beauty Myth had shared outlandish misinformation about the COVID vaccine.

The Red Army soldier flattened the electric fence of the Nazi death camp with his T-34 tank, found “skeletons everywhere” and kept going.

Prince Harry now sits in sixth place, with his first child Archie in seventh. Prince Andrew, meanwhile, has been pushed down to ninth in line. 

Naftali Bennett, the nationalist set to replace Netanyahu, called on Israel’s longest-serving leader not to leave “scorched earth” behind.

In a remote corner of East Timor, a scandal of enormous proportions has shaken an almost universally Catholic country and brought powerful forces into play.

British TV presenter Piers Morgan, who had clashed with the couple, declined to comment on Lilibeth ‘Lili’ Diana Mountbatten-Windsor’s birth in California.

Pope Francis on Sunday expressed his pain over the discovery in Canada of the remains of 215 Indigenous students of church-run residential schools and pressed religious and political authorities to shed light on “this sad affair.”

The couple named the baby Lilibet ‘Lili’ as a tribute to her great-grandmother, the Queen.

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The US will give Taiwan 750,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, part of President Joe Biden’s move to share tens of millions of jabs globally, three American senators said on Sunday, after the self-ruled island complained that China is hindering its eff...

Scientists have employed microbes to remove grime that stained a number of Michelangelo masterpieces for 500 years.

Trump joined a chorus of Republican politicians who are criticising Fauci for asking Americans to wear masks to guard against the virus.

The British public appears to have rejected a push by their farmers to paint Australian meat as substandard, as a new survey showed Australia was the first choice for Brits seeking to increase trade post-Brexit. 

Facing a demographic crisis of its own invention, China scrambles to turn back the clock. But is it too late?

Anti-semitic reaction in Australia to renewed hostilities has been less vocal than in other parts of the world but it is still a cause for concern.

At least 20 people were killed by Myanmar’s security forces in the Ayeyarwady river delta region on Saturday after villagers armed with catapults and crossbows fought back against troops searching for weapons, local media and residents said.

The Russian leader has never publicly identified his daughters. That makes for an odd wink-and-nod scenario every time they appear.

African pouched rat Magawa is the most successful rodent trained to detect land mines in Cambodia’s fields, sniffing out 141,000 square metres.

Refused entry at every port, 90 refugees languished at sea for three months. Indonesian villagers discovered the survivors on a deserted island.

The former president hinted he would run again despite the two-year Facebook ban introduced after the social media giant ruled he was a risk to public safety.

US District Judge Roger Benitez compared the AR-15 rifle to a Swiss army knife, “a perfect combination of home defence weapon and homeland defence equipment”.

The nations to Australia’s north are enduring their worst outbreaks of the pandemic, but experts say that will continue until they get enough vaccines.

A church report estimated at least 3,677 people were abused by clergy in Germany between 1946 and 2014. More than half of the victims were 13 or under.

Scientists drilled into the mudbanks on the Bay of Bengal to measure the impact of millenia of rainy seasons.

At a rare public appearance, the Russian leader said US rioters “were not looters or thieves” and refused to say if he would down a plane to arrest a dissident.

Police blocked off a Hong Kong park to prevent people gathering to commemorate the anniversary of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and arrested the planned vigil’s organiser.

The top US infectious disease expert said the medical records of nine people might provide vital clues into whether COVID-19 first emerged as the result of a lab leak.

Britain’s medicines regulator said on Friday it had approved the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech for use on 12- to 15-year-olds.

Australian Sean Turnell, deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and others will face court on June 23, with lawyers concerned no legal representation will mean no transparency with the hearing.

Papuans fear crackdown on independence will get much worse as autonomy deadline looms.

Bahraini officials said this week that it would be offering Pfizer-BioNTech doses to certain high-risk individuals who have already received two Sinopharm jabs.