LISBON: French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin, who set off in a rowboat from Portugal on Jan. 1 to cross the Atlantic solo, has vanished...
LISBON: French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin, who set off in a rowboat from Portugal on Jan. 1 to cross the Atlantic solo, has vanished...
Athens, Greece: A severe weather front has hit Greece, with below-freezing temperatures and snowfall in many parts of the country, including the capital...
The European Union's drug regulator is set to decide whether to approve Pfizer's COVID-19 pill at the end of this month, before doing...
British scientists will begin testing Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics' antiviral pill molnupiravir as a possible treatment for patients hospitalised with COVID-19, amid the...
Islamabad: Pakistan appointed its first female Supreme Court judge on Monday, after a nomination process that proved unusually contentious. Justice Ayesha Malik, 55,...
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday was given the chance to challenge a decision allowing him to be extradited to the United...
LA PALMA, Spain: Two bare pine tree trunks remain standing inside the jagged and colourful main crater of the volcano on the Spanish...
ZURICH: Swiss watch maker Hublot, a sponsor of Novak Djokovic, believes getting vaccinated is a personal choice, the company's boss told Reuters after...
BEIJING: Chinese authorities will take action against polluters to ensure next month's Winter Olympics will be held in a "good environment", an environment...
Ouagadougou:Burkina Faso President Roch Kabore has been detained at a military camp by mutinying soldiers, four security sources and a West African diplomat...
GENEVA: The head of the World Health Organization on Monday urged countries to work together to bring the acute phase of the pandemic...
NEW DELHI: India's COVID-19 infections, led by the Omicron variant, may see a sharp rise in the coming weeks, some top experts said,...
Rome: Italy's parliament will begin voting on Monday for a new head of state, with Prime Minister Mario Draghi among the most prominent...
SEOUL, South Korea: South Korea will expand rapid testing and shorten quarantines as it reshapes its pandemic response to deal with a faster-than-expected...
Kyiv: The British Embassy in Ukraine said on Monday some staff and dependants were being withdrawn from Kyiv in response to "a growing...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong will take steps from Tuesday to cut the number of civil servants working in their offices, as it battles...
Washington/London: The USState Department announced Sunday it was ordering diplomats' family members to leave Ukraine, as USPresident Joe Biden weighed options for boosting...
Quarantine-free travel resumed between Singapore and the nearby Indonesian islands of Batam and Bintan on Monday, as the countries continue to prise open...
