Ethiopia vowed Saturday not to ‘cave in to aggressions of any kind’ after US President Donald Trump lashed out over the country's Nile River mega-dam and suggested Egypt might destroy it.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for coronavirus and is subject to quarantine but is feeling good, presidential minister Blazej Spychalski announced on Saturday.

Olympic chief Thomas Bach warned against allowing the Games to ‘descend into a marketplace of demonstrations’ on Saturday after criticism of a rule banning protests by athletes.

More than 84,000 people were diagnosed with Covid-19 across the United States on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, a record one-day increase in infections during the pandemic as the virus surges again nationwide.

The population of Galapagos penguins and flightless cormorants, two species endemic to the islands, has seen a record increase, study results released Friday showed.

US Secretary of State of Mike Pompeo is flying to India next week to strengthen strategic ties with a nation that is locked in a military standoff with China, in Washington's latest effort to bolster allies against Beijing.

The European Union's disease control agency has joined frantic health workers to sound the alarm over a coronavirus surge across the continent, as the World Health Organisation warned of an ‘exponential’ rise in infections.

Guinea, gripped by days of post-election violence, suffered widespread Internet disruptions yesterday and the government mobilised the army after preliminary results showed a victory for President Alpha Conde.

Italian farmer Cristian Mallocci could not believe his eyes when Spelacchia, one of his eight dogs, gave birth to a green-furred puppy.

The northern hemisphere is facing a crucial moment in fighting the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday, with too many countries witnessing an exponential increase in coronavirus cases.

Prime Minister Imran Khan has vowed to bring Nawaz Sharif back from London to serve his prison sentence, and said that he would visit the United Kingdom if necessary to make it happen.

Five days ahead of the first phase of the Bihar Assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday said that the state’s people cannot forget the “lawlessness” seen during the 15-year rule of the opposition (Rashtriya Janata Dal).