DHAKA, DECEMBER 19 (IANS): At least 12 people were killed when a train collided into a bus on Saturday morning at a rail crossing in Bangladesh's Joypurhat district.
Senior police official AKM Alamgir Ja
HA NOI, December 19 (IANS): Scientists released genetic results confirming a female turtle captured in October in Vietnam is definitively the near extinct Swinhoe's softshell turtle -- also known as the Yan
BEIJING, DECEMBER 19 (IANS): China's Chang'e-5 probe has retrieved about 1,731 grams of samples from the moon, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Zhang Kejian, head of the C
Washington, December 19 (IANS): The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 75.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.67 million, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
In i
Washington, December 19 (IANS) Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus by attending physician Brian Monahan at the Capitol.
Taking to Twitter
Beijing, December 19 (IANS): China is ready to continue to strengthen cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO) to advance the global origin-tracing of the novel coronavirus, which was first reported
Moscow, December 19 (IANS): Russia has successfully launched its Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket, delivering 36 satellites from the UK-based OneWeb company into space.
The rocket blasted off from the Vostochny cos
Beijing/New York, December 18 (PTI): China on Friday said that any attempt by the US to subvert its political system and defame the Communist party is "doomed to fail", asserting that an attack on the
Washington, December 18 (PTI): An international team of scientists has collected the first possible radio signal from a planet beyond our solar system, emanating from an exoplanet system about 51 light-years aw
Washington, December 18 (PTI): US President-elect Joe Biden has announced his climate and energy team, which the transition said is ready on day one to advance his agenda and lead the world to confront the unde
Berlin, December 18 (AP): The secretary general of the United Nations on Friday stressed that as wealthy nations roll out the coronavirus vaccine for their citizens, the world also needs to ensure it is availab
United Nations, December 18 (PTI): Afghanistan has said that the Taliban have increased their levels of violence and continued relationship with global terror groups, asserting that any leniency on the sanction
London, December 18 (PTI): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that a no-deal Brexit is now a "very likely" outcome as a trade agreement with the European Union (EU) remained in a serious situa
Kabul, December 18 (AP): A bomb rigged to a rickshaw killed at least 15 children and wounded 20 others in a Taliban-controlled area in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, a provincial official said, as violence in t
UNITED NATIONS, DECEMBER 18 (IANS): The UN has announced an allocation of $35 million for water, sanitation and medical supplies, and for the protection of civilians caught up in the ongoing conflict in Ethiopi
MADRID, DECEMBER 18 (IANS): The Spanish Congress of Deputies or the lower chamber of Parliament approved a bill to legalise euthanasia.
The bill, allowing euthanasia in "a context of a chronic and disab
ABUJA, DECEMBER 18 (IANS): At least 344 students who were kidnapped from a school in Nigeria's Katsina state have been released, a government official announced.
"I think we have recovered most of t
SUVA, DECEMBER 18 (IANS): Two people have died in Fiji after the category 5 tropical cyclone Yasa hit the island nation, Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama confirmed on Friday, adding the number of fatalities wa
KABUL, DECEMBER 18 (IANS): Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has invited the Taliban to Kandahar province to engage in a discussion for bringing peace to the war-torn country, the media reported.
Addressing an e
KABUL, DECEMBER 18 (IANS): At least 30 militants were killed in an airstrike targeting a gathering of Taliban fighters Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Friday, a government official said.
"A group o