London, January 25 (PTI): A diamond bracelet and jewelled decorative elephants from Jaipur are some of the Indian heirlooms that make up a collection of 350 personal items belonging to Patricia Mountbatten, the
London, January 25 (PTI): UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new international coalition to tackle the impacts of climate change on Monday.
Johnson officially launched the Adaptation Action Coalitio
COLOMBO, JANUARY 25 (IANS): Sri Lanka's Department of Wildlife Conservation will conduct an island-wide elephant census this year after a decade to determine the exact number of the animals in the country,
London, January 25 (PTI): Earth has lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017, according to a study which reveals that the rate at which ice is disappearing across the planet is speeding up.
The r
MIAMI, JANUARY 25 (IANS): A banner with with the words, "Trump worst President ever" was reportedly flown by a plane near the former US leader's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, according to a media
ADDIS ABABA, JANUARY 25 (IANS): The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned that desert locust swarms are expected to descend on large parts of Ethiopia and Kenya in the coming weeks.
In its la
Beijing, January 25 (IANS): A day after 11 trapped workers were rescued from a gold mine in China's Shandong province, authorities on Monday retrieved the bodies of the 10 other miners, while one was still
San Francisco, January 25 (IANS): Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates, who has been a target of conspiracy theorists for his push for vaccinations, has received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.
London, January 25 (IANS): With new Covid-19 strains reported from several parts of the world giving fresh threats to the fight against the pandemic, a group of scientists is calling on governments to consider
Taipei, January 25 (AP): Chinese state media have played up questions about Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine and whether it could be lethal to the very old. A government spokesperson suggests the coronavirus could
Mexico City, January 25 (IANS): Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador announced on Monday that he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, becoming the latest to join a long list of world leaders
Tel Aviv, January 25 (IANS): Israel has announced that it has opened an embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), following a normalisation deal signed last year to establish diplomatic ties between the two na
Seoul, January 25 (IANS): Lee Jae-yong, the de facto head of Samsung Group, has decided not to appeal the ruling that sentenced him to two and a half years in prison for corruption charges, including bribery, h
Tallinn, January 24 (AP): Estonia's two biggest political parties say they have clinched a deal to form a new government to be led by a female prime minister for the first time in the Baltic country's h
KATHMANDU, JANUARY 24 (IANS): Discord and division continue inside the Nepal Communist Party, which has not split formally but has virtually fallen apart after Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli unilaterally decide
Lisbon, January 24 (AP): Portugal held a presidential election Sunday, with the moderate incumbent candidate strongly favored to earn a second five-year term as a devastating COVID-19 surge grips the European U
Islamabad, January 24 (PTI): Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Sunday that his country was ready to work with the new US administration and asserted that the world has changed a lot i
Jakarta, January 24 (AP): Indonesian authorities said that they seized an Iranian tanker and Panamanian tanker suspected of carrying out the illegal transfer of oil in their country's waters Sunday.
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Johannesburg, January 24 (PTI): Cashing in on the fearful atmosphere prevailing in South Africa amidst a second wave and a new variant of the COVID-19 virus, some Hindu priests in the country are allegedly char
Beijing, January 24 (PTI): Eleven miners, trapped underground for two weeks following a blast in a gold mine in east China's Shandong Province, have been rescued, the state media reported on Sunday.
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