After an international mission to China turned up more questions than answers about the pandemic origins, the WHO is evaluating how to move forward through a diplomatic quagmire to solve the mystery.

Singapore's manpower ministry said authorities were investigating the possibility of Covid-19 re-infections among residents in a migrant workers' dormitory, after finding about a dozen positive cases in the facility.

Indonesia has not detected any signs of a submarine that went missing with 53 crew on board, a navy spokesman said on Thursday, after rescuers found an oil slick a day earlier and as neighbouring countries pledged to help.

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NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the US space agency said on Wednesday.

US President Joe Biden is expected to formally recognize the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War One as an act of genocide, sources said on Wednesday ...

India posted a global record of almost 315,000 new Covid infections on Thursday as hospitals in New Delhi sent out desperate warnings that patients could die without fresh oxygen supplies.

Queen Elizabeth II yesterday thanked well-wishers for their messages of support after the death of her husband, Prince Philip, as she turned 95 and spent her first birthday without him in more than seven decades.

The ex-wife of a Russian billionaire yesterday won a British court case against her son, whom she accuses of helping his father hide his assets during the bitter divorce battle.

President Vladimir Putin warned foreign rivals yesterday against “crossing the red line” with Russia, as he gave a key speech amid deep tensions with the West over Ukraine and jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.

An oxygen tanker leaks at hospital premises where Covid-19 patients died due to lack of oxygen in Nashik in this still image taken from video. (Reuters)

Indonesia’s military said it was searching for a submarine with 53 crew aboard after losing contact with the vessel during naval exercises off the coast of Bali yesterday.