A 59-year-old man is in critical condition after a shark attacked him on Sunday at Australia's Great Barrier Reef, near the north Queensland city of Townsville, rescuers said.

The Covid-19 pandemic has ushered in the era of video meetings. But can Zoom really replace in-person meetings that require business executives to travel?

A team of entomologists in full-body protective gear vacuumed Asian giant hornets out of a tree in Washington state on Saturday, eradicating the first nest of the so-called murder hornets found in the United States.

South Korea's richest and most powerful industrialist, Lee Kun-hee, turned Samsung Electronics into one of the world's biggest tech companies but lived a reclusive existence.

President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden gave starkly contrasting messages on Saturday about the coronavirus pandemic, taking their campaigns for the White House on the road to swing states where Covid-19 cases are surging again.

Lee Kun-hee, who built Samsung Electronics into a global powerhouse in smartphones, semiconductors and televisions, died on Sunday after spending more than six years in hospital following a heart attack, the company said.

The Pakistan Federation Baseball (PFB) is gearing up to set a new world record, presently held by the US, when it organises exhibitions matches between Pakistan Greens and Whites teams in Skardu city on Oct 31, at the highest altitude of above 7,000 feet besides staging an inter-district championshi

Award-winning Pakistani filmmaker Shehzad Hameed Ahmad was recently honoured by United Women Singapore for championing the cause of gender equality through his films.

Pakistan has reported its single-highest day coronavirus cases since July after 847 people tested positive for the novel virus.

The long-awaited detailed judgment in the Justice Qazi Faez Isa case was finally delivered with Justice Yahya Afridi’s dissenting note surprising many as it recommended criminal proceedings against Law Minister Farogh Naseem and Assets Recovery Unit (ARU) Chairman Mirza Shahzad Akbar, among others.

Afghan security forces have killed Abu Muhsin al-Masri, a senior al-Qaeda leader who was on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Most Wanted Terrorists list, Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS) said Saturday

Austria’s postal service has united two aspects of the coronavirus pandemic in a stamp printed on toilet paper that people can also, at a push, use for social distancing.