Protests erupted in several parts of India yesterday after the authorities had the body of a gang rape victim cremated at a ceremony her family said took place without their permission.

Schools, cinemas and swimming pools will be allowed to reopen in India after a months-long coronavirus lockdown, the Home Ministry said yesterday, even as experts warn that the nation is on track to becoming the world’s most-infected.

Primary schools opened in the twin cities yesterday in the third phase of educational institutions reopening, following months of shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Prime Minister Imran Khan has issued directions to use all legal means to bring back PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif from the UK, with the Foreign Office and the Federal Investigation Agency assigned the task to take necessary actions in this regard.

Health experts yesterday admitted that the coronavirus was out of control as case numbers and hospital admissions rise despite a slew of new restrictions on social gatherings.

Armenian and Azerbaijani forces are engaged in the heaviest fighting in years over Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian province that broke away from Azerbaijan in the 1990s during the collapse of the Soviet Union

With a shout-out to the Proud Boys militia, President Donald Trump has once again shown a readiness to court right-wing extremists as he battles for re-election.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the British people on Wednesday to obey rules imposed to tackle a rapidly accelerating second wave of the coronavirus outbreak, cautioning that otherwise a tougher lockdown could follow.

European police have busted a human smuggling ring said to be part of a network transporting thousands of migrants in life-threatening conditions across the Channel to Britain.

A thunderous noise that panicked residents of Paris on Wednesday was caused by the sonic boom of a fighter jet breaking the sound barrier, police in the French capital said.

French investigators have called for a review of the design and maintenance of titanium alloy engine parts to ensure they guard against the risks of metal fatigue following an engine blowout on an Airbus A380 exactly three years ago.

Britain's Oxford University said today it would study whether the world's best-selling prescription medicine, adalimumab, was an effective treatment for Covid-19 patients, the latest effort to repurpose existing drugs as potential coronavirus therapies.