CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., November 16 (Reuters): Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station on Sunday, NASA's first full-fledged mission s
(Reuters): US President Donald Trump's campaign on Sunday dropped a major part of a lawsuit it brought seeking to halt Pennsylvania from certifying its results in the presidential election, narrow
SEOUL, November 16 (Reuters): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered a tightening of state emergency anti-coronavirus systems in the face of the worldwide pandemic, as he presided over a meeting of t
DUBAI, November 15 (Reuters): Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday declared "the general mobilisation of the nation and the government" to confront the third wave of the coronavirus af
WASHINGTON, November 15 (Reuters): President Donald Trump backtracked after appearing on Sunday to acknowledge for the first time that Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 election, saying he conceded "nothing&qu
LONDON, NOVEMBER 15 (IANS): Normalcy from the Covid era can only be expected by next year's winter as any Covid vaccine will take to show its effect and will not immediately reduce the number of infections,
SZIRAK, Hungary, November 15 (Reuters): In an unassuming house in rolling hills east of the Hungarian capital, a small family firm is helping oil the wheels of the world's big pharmaceutical companies
YANGON, NOVEMBER 15 (IANS): Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party, headed by incumbent State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, has won 920 seats, which is an absolute majority in the Novembe
BUCHAREST, November 15 (Reuters): Romanian officials will check all intensive care units after a fire killed 10 people at a hospital treating coronavirus patients, the government said on Sunday.
The fir
WASHINGTON, November 15 (Reuters): President Donald Trump appeared on Sunday to publicly acknowledge for the first time that his Democratic rival Joe Biden won the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election, but re
CAIRO, NOVEMBER 15 (IANS): Egypt's Tourism and Antiquities Ministry has unveiled 100 newly-discovered ancient coffins in the Saqqara necropolis of Giza near the capital Cairo.
"We announced today th
MANILA, November 15 (Reuters): The death toll from the deadliest cyclone to hit the Philippines this year has climbed to 67, while many areas remained submerged in a northern region hit by the worst floodi
EIN BOKEK, Israel, November 15 (Reuters): At the lowest point on earth, in the middle of a giant salt lake where animals and plants have no chance of surviving, a jolly man dressed in red with a flowing wh
(Reuters): The transition to President-elect Joe Biden's administration remained in political limbo on Sunday, a day after tens of thousands of President Donald Trump's supporters poured into the n
New York, November 14 (IANS): As the coronavirus pandemic batters the US with a brutal winter surge, the Donald Trump administrations vaccine coordination chief remains optimistic about a best case scenario of
BANGKOK, November 14 (Reuters): Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn told well-wishers of the importance of unity as he marked the opening of a new railway line on Saturday, after thousands of protester
ISLAMABAD, NOVEMBER 14 (IANS): In an out of the box approach aimed at nabbing rapists, a Pakistani police officer lured his own daughter to be used as bait.
The incident took place in Sindh's Kashmore, w
WASHINGTON, November 14 (Reuters): U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to make controlling the coronavirus a top priority and is likely to push for mask wearing mandates and more fiscal stimulus to
ADDIS ABABA, November 14 (Reuters): Two airports in Ethiopia's Amhara state which neighbours Tigray where federal troops are fighting local forces were targeted by rocket fire late on Friday, the gover
MANILA, November 14 (Reuters): Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday cleared his newly appointed police chief of any violation of rules when he celebrated his birthday in May during one of the w