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A "huge number" of poorer countries have had to suspend their coronavirus vaccination programs due to a lack of doses, the World Health Organization said Friday.The shortages often mean people who...

Dozens of turtles and dolphins were killed by intense heat and chemical poisoning from a container ship that burned for almost two weeks off Sri Lanka, authorities said Thursday.The...

Jiuquan , China: Astronauts blasting off on Thursday for China's first crewed mission to its new space station will have a choice of 120 different types of food and "space treadmills" for exercise,...

NEW YORK: It sounds like a real-life take on "Pinocchio" -- a US lobster fisherman says he was scooped into the mouth of a humpback whale on Friday and yet lived to tell the story."I was in his closed...

Oil demand is set to rise above pre-pandemic levels by the end of next year, the IEA said Friday, but producers have sufficient capacity to rise to the challenge.In its first detailed look at next...

Britain's economy grew by 2.3 percent in April as the government began to ease strict lockdown measures, official data showed Friday.That was the fastest monthly output for UK gross domestic product...

India on Thursday recorded a global record of more than 6,000 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours after one state dramatically revised upwards its data, stoking suspicions that the country's toll is much...

Police arrested 800 people in a huge global sting involving encrypted phones used by criminals that were secretly planted by law enforcement agencies, the EU police agency Europol said Tuesday."This...

Pakistani engineers Tuesday combed the mangled wreckage of two trains that collided in a remote farming region, an accident that killed dozens and highlighted huge safety problems on the nation's...

Spain opened its borders to vaccinated travellers from all over the world on Monday, hoping an influx of visitors will revitalise an all-important tourism sector that has been battered by the...

At least 34 people were killed and dozens injured Monday when a packed Pakistani inter-city train plowed into another express that had derailed earlier, officials said. An unknown number of people...

Long before his mega smash-hit "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda dazzled Broadway with "In The Heights," a Latin pop and salsa-inspired musical celebrating the New York immigrant community that raised...

Markets and shopping malls in New Delhi will be allowed to reopen from Monday in a further easing of the Covid-19 lockdown, the chief minister said as infections fall in major Indian cities after...

The Tokyo Olympics chief said the Games would only be cancelled in extreme circumstances on Thursday as organisers revealed 10,000 volunteers had quit over coronavirus fears, a sexism row and...

One of Iran's largest naval ships sank Wednesday after catching fire while on a "training mission" of a strategic port near the head of the Gulf, the navy said.The British-built fleet replenishment...

Jerusalem: Israeli politicians battling to unseat veteran right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were locked in last-ditch talks on Wednesday to hammer out their "change" coalition composed of...

Thousands of doctors across India wore black armbands on Tuesday calling for the arrest of a hugely popular guru who has claimed yoga can prevent Covid-19 and that conventional medicine has killed...

London: The OPEC group of oil-producing countries and its allies look set to keep boosting production at their meeting on Tuesday, as pandemic-hit demand for crude recovers. The OPEC+ alliance,...

Lebanon's economic collapse is likely to rank among the world's worst financial crises since the mid-19th century, the World Bank said in a damning report released Tuesday.The report predicts that...

China will allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media said Monday, further unwinding four decades of strict family planning controls in...