WASHINGTON, JULY 9 (IANS): NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has pushed its limits to successfully complete its ninth and "most challenging" flight since it first took off on the Red Planet, US spa
Tokyo, July 9 (IANS): As search efforts continued on Friday for 21 missing people following a large mudslide that hit a spa resort town in Japan last week, experts and local authorities suspect that improper ac
New York, July 9 (IANS): An experimental single-dose, intranasal Covid-19 vaccine has shown potential for full protection in mice against the lethal infectious disease, say researchers.
The experimental vacc
KABUL, JULY 9 (IANS): Women have taken up guns in northern and central Afghanistan, marching in the streets in their hundreds and sharing pictures of themselves with assault rifles on social media in a show of
Islamabad, July 9 (PTI): Pakistan on Friday cautioned against the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan and urged all parties to agree on a power sharing formula to avert a looming civil war in the neighbourin
Moscow, July 9 (PTI): Voicing concern at the spiralling violence in Afghanistan, India on Friday called for immediate reduction in bloodshed in the war-torn nation and underlined that the "legitimacy aspec
Washington, July 9 (PTI): America's nearly 20-year military mission in Afghanistan will end on August 31, President Joe Biden has announced, saying the US did not go to the war-torn country to "nation-
Suspects in the assassination of Haiti's President Jovenel Moise, among them Haitian-American citizens James Solages, left, and Joseph Vincent, second left, are shown to the media at the General Direction o
Copenhagen, July 9 (AP): A small plane carrying skydivers crashed outside the Swedish town of Orebro on Thursday night, killing nine people, police said.
The dead included the pilot and eight passengers, pol
Dhaka, Jul 9 (PTI) At least 52 people were killed and over 50 others injured in a massive fire that broke out at a six-storey juice factory outside Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, according to media reports on
Washington, July 9 (IANS): The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 185.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.35 billion, according to the Johns
Mexico City, July 9 (IANS): Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the country is mainly concentrated amongst the younger population, but with
Jakarta, July 9 (IANS): Mount Merapi, Indonesia's most active volcano, emitted hot clouds seven times as far as 1,500 metres to the southwest and southeast, the Geological Disaster Technology Research and D
Johannesburg, July 9 (IANS): South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma has spent the first night of his 15-month imprisonment sentence for contempt of court at the Estcourt Correctional Centre in KwaZulu-N
Dhaka, July 9 (IANS): At least three female workers were killed and several others injured as a juice factory in Bangladesh's Narayanganj district caught fire, a senior police official said Friday.
Santo Domingo, July 9 (IANS): At least 15 Colombians and two Haitian-Americans suspected to be involved with the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise have been arrested, officials announce.
At le
New York, July 8 (IANS) A team of researchers has discovered that an enormous, ice-covered lake in Antarctica vanished suddenly and scientists are worried that it could happen again.
In this disappearing act
Kyiv (Ukraine), July 8 (AP): The Belarusian authorities on Thursday blocked the website of a leading online media outlet and detained several of its journalists, the latest move in a sweeping crackdown on disse
Arequipa (Peru), July 8 (AP): On the last day of Javier Vilca's life, his wife stood outside a hospital window with a teddy bear, red balloons and a box of chocolates to celebrate his birthday, and held up
Seoul, July 8 (AP): There is no sign that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been inoculated against the coronavirus and his country hasn't received any foreign vaccines, South Korea's spy agency said