
London: David Diop has become the first French writer to win the International Booker Prize, judges announced on Wednesday.His second novel, At Night ...

New Delhi: India’s multi-agency team that had gone to Dominica to bring back Mehul Choksi is headed back home on a Qatar Airways private jet after the...

World Environment Day is being Celebrated across the globe today. It is one of the biggest annual events organised by the United Nations to generate a...

Jerusalem: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says it has recalled its Gaza director after he faced threats over remarks in which he appeared to p...

London: The UK’s medicines regulator on Friday approved the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for 12 to 15 year old, saying it is “safe and effectiv...

Washington: China vehemently objected on Friday to US President Joe Biden’s expansion of a list of Chinese companies whose shares are off-limits to Am...

A stroll in Pablo Picasso's footsteps in Montmartre; breathing in the scents of Provence; a humbling walk along D-Day beaches: These and all of France...

Abu Dhabi: A 45-year-old Indian expat, who was on death row in the United Arab Emirates for causing the death of a young Sudanese boy in a traffic acc...

Senior United States officials met visiting Israeli Defence Minister Benjamin G-antz in Washington yesterday, reaffirming US commitment to Israel’s se...

Since March, over 400 US colleges and universities have announced students get Covid-19 vaccinations, ahead of the Autumn semester but those who have ...

Jakarta: An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia's eastern province of North Maluku, with no casualties or damages reported ...

Washington: A bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the US House of Representatives to eliminate the per country cap on employment-based Green...

Sydney: Health authorities in the Australian state of Victoria extended a lockdown in the capital of Melbourne as the latest outbreak of Covid-19 acti...

Lagos: Authorities have confirmed that 136 students were abducted by gunmen in northern Nigeria earlier this week, including some as young as 5 years ...

Kabul: A bomb ripped through a minivan in a mostly Shiite neighbourhood of the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least four people, a police spok...

New COVID-19 cases in Saudi Arabia continued to remain above 1,200 on Thursday for the fourth consecutive day, with 1,261 new infections recorded over...

SINGAPORE: Global liquefied natural gas (LNG) trade volumes rose to a record last year led by Asia, though growth was marginal as demand was slammed b...

BRUSSELS — After decades of exploring other planets and moons, the space agency is returning its sights to the solar system’s hottest planet, which it...

DAMMAM — As part of Operation Samudra Setu II (Ocean Bridge), INS Tarkash, an Indian Navy Warship called at Dammam Port on Wednesday to take on medica...

K.S.A:- Expatriates, who have received their entitlements and paid all their dues, including phone bills, will only be issued “final-exit” visas follo...

A Dominica magistrate has denied bail to absconding diamond tycoon Mehul Choksi, who was arrested on May 23 for alleged illegal entry to the Caribbean...

Washington: The Biden administration on Tuesday formally ended a Trump-era immigration policy that forced asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearing...

Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi has been produced before a local Magistrate in Dominica to answer charges of his illegal entry into the island count...

Veteran Israeli politician Isaac Herzog will be the Jewish nation''s new president after his overwhelming victory in a secret ballot held in Parliamen...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will host a trilateral meeting with his counterparts from Pakistan and Afghanistan on Thursday to discuss the Afghan ...

In Afghanistan, at least eight people were killed and 14 more wounded in two blasts targeting buses in the capital city, Kabul on Wednesday.Two blasts...

Iran’s largest navy ship catches fire and later on sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances, semiofficial news agencies reported...

New Delhi: As part of India’s mbitious playbook for electric mobility and green energy storage, the union cabinet on Wednesday approved an agreement t...

Wellington: New Zealand announced Tuesday it was the latest country to sign a space agreement with NASA, just as New Zealand's nascent space industry ...

Wellington: Floodwaters in New Zealand receded on Tuesday, leaving behind a big mess on many farms in the Canterbury region and damage to a major brid...
Is it right to exclude Bangladesh from the T20 World Cup?