The first beavers to live naturally in the wild in England for over 400 years have been given the green light to stay after a five-year trial showed their dam-building activities were good for wildlife and people.

Eight Covid-19 patients died in a fire that broke out in the intensive care ward of a private hospital in Ahmedabad early yesterday, officials said as they launched a probe into the incident.

Amid the ongoing political crisis in the state, the Rajasthan High Court yesterday gave some relief to the Ashok Gehlot government in the case challenging the merger of six BSP legislators with the ruling Congress and seeking a stay on it.

Australia’s second-largest city yesterday entered the country’s toughest lockdown yet, sparking a fresh wave of anxiety and confusion over ever-tougher regulations.

The Philippines on Thursday recorded another jump in coronavirus cases to overtake neighbouring Indonesia as the country with the highest number of confirmed Covid-19 infections in East Asia.

Mauritania's prime minister and his entire government resigned on Thursday, a day after parliamentary investigators probing alleged graft under the previous administration ...

Japan on Thursday marked 75 years since the world's first atomic bomb attack, with the coronavirus pandemic forcing a scaling back of ceremonies to remember the victims.

Uganda’s crumbling public hospitals, doctors’ strikes and corruption scandals make its success in the fight against the new coronavirus all the more unlikely.

Sri Lankans shrugged off fears of the novel coronavirus and streamed into polling centres yesterday to elect a new parliament that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa hopes will clear the way for him to boost his powers.

Silvia Puntano, a mother of seven from the poor Buenos Aires suburb of Villa Azul, these days has only one thing on her mind: where to find her next meal.

US astronauts Robert Behnken and Doug Hurley, home two days from a landmark mission as Nasa’s first crew to fly a privately built vehicle into orbit, recounted the loud, jarring ride they experienced through Earth’s atmosphere before a safe landing at sea.

Tropical storm Isaias left at least five people dead as it pounded the US eastern seaboard with driving winds and heavy rain, leaving millions without power, before moving across Canada yesterday.