London, January 20 (AP): British Prime Minister Boris Johnson welcomed the start of a new UK-US chapter on Wednesday under incoming US President Joe Biden, even as his predecessor Theresa May accused Johnson of
BEIJING, JANUARY 20 (IANS): Xia Yan (29) from Xi'an, the capital city of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, is keen on time challenges.
Xia currently holds eight Guinness World Records for his mind-
BERLIN, JANUARY 20 (IANS): Thirty-two per cent of Europeans no longer believed that Americans can be trusted after electing Donald Trump as President in 2016, according to a pan-European survey of over 15,000 p
Harare, January 20 (AP): Zimbabwe's Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo, who gained prominence in 2017 as the military general who announced the coup against then-president Robert Mugabe on television, has died
JERUSALEM, JANUARY 20 (IANS): Israeli and Italian researchers have discovered that early humans about half a million years ago used stone chopping tools to break animal bones and consume the bone marrow, Tel Av
Brussels, January 20 (AP): The European Union's top officials breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday that Joe Biden will be taking over as president of the United States, but they warned that the world has
Washington, January 20 (PTI): Hours after being sworn in as the 46th US president, Joe Biden would sign 15 executive orders -- including rejoining the Paris climate agreement, a 100-day mask mandate and reversi
Beijing, January 20 (AP): China's Foreign Ministry described outgoing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday as a “doomsday clown” and said his designation of China as a perpetrator of g
NEW YORK, JANUARY 20 (IANS): On the eve of her taking over as the path-breaking first vice president of Asian descent, Kamala Harris assured her fellow Americans from the continent celebrating her victory that
United Nations, January 20 (AP): United Nations agencies are warning that more than 350 million people in the Asia-Pacific region are going hungry as the coronavirus pandemic destroys jobs and pushes food price
Washington, January 20 (AP): Donald Trump will walk out of the White House and board Marine One for the last time as president on Wednesday, leaving behind a legacy of chaos and tumult and a nation bitterly div
New York, January 20 (IANS): US President Trump on Wednesday granted clemency to more than 100 people in one of his final acts as commander-in-chief, including his former Chief Strategist Stephen Bannon.
Tru
New York, January 20 (IANS): A Black woman's Bible has featured in every single big moment of Kamala Harris' political career up till now. She laid her left hand upon it as she took the oath of office t
Moscow, January 19 (AP): The Kremlin on Tuesday brushed off calls from US and European officials to release opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was arrested after returned to Russia from Germany following tre
GENEVA, JANUARY 19 (IANS): The world faces a "catastrophic moral failure" because of unequal Covid-19 vaccine policies, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.
WHO chief Tedros
WASHINGTON, JANUARY 19 (IANS): As US President-elect Joe Biden is set to be inaugurated as the 46th President of the US on Wednesday, outgoing President Donald Trump will leave office with the lowest approval r
COLOMBO, JANUARY 19 (IANS): The Sri Lankan Cabinet on Tuesday approved to make sign language a recognised means of communication, the Government Information Department said In a statement, the Department said t
WASHINGTON, JANUARY 19 (IANS): A woman who according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stole House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's laptop during the January 6 Capitol riots and tried to sell it to Russian
Tehran, January 19 (AP): Iran's military kicked off a ground forces drill on Tuesday along the coast of the Gulf of Oman, state TV reported, the latest in a series of snap exercises that the country is hold
Geneva, January 19 (AP): A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organisation has criticised China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier and ques