FLORIDA: Tropical Storm Idalia has hit the Carolinas with heavy rain, following its earlier landfall in Florida's Big Bend region

JAPAN: Japan’s space programme is hoping to rebound from a string of setbacks next week with the launch of its own

JOHANNESBURG: The BRICS bloc of developing nations agreed on Thursday to admit Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, Egypt, Argentina and UAE

NEW DELHI: Former Congress minister Mani Shankar Aiyar in his autobiography Memoirs of a Maverick:

TEL AVIV: Thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Saturday in the latest protest against the hard-right

MAKKAH: The Presidency of Religious Affairs for Masjid Al Haram and Masjid An Nabawi has issued an update

DUBAI: Iran agreed to release four American-Iranian dual nationals from Tehran’s Evin prison under a prisoner exchange

KAHULUI: Wildfires have claimed at least 36 lives in the US tourist paradise of Hawaii, where rescuers raced on

ZAPORIZHZHIA: A Russian missile has hit a hotel located in the heart of the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia.

WASHINGTON: The United States responds to "obviously unfounded" cases and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)

ALABAMA: Much of the eastern United States was lashed with intense storms on Monday, leaving at least

NEW DELHI: Hindus and Muslims have clashed in the Indian state of Haryana a week after violence erupted during

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is hosting talks on the Ukraine war on Saturday in the latest flexing of its diplomatic muscle,

WASHINGTON: The US State Department said that Imran Khan’s arrest was Pakistan’s internal matter, but independent

HARYANA: At least five people, including two police personnel, were killed in clashes between Hindus and Muslims in

BEIJING: At least 11 people are dead and 27 missing after heavy rains lashed Beijing, state media said on Tuesday,

DAMASCUS: The militant Islamic State group (IS) said on Friday it was behind a bombing in the Syrian capital the day

BEIJING: Typhoon Doksuri hit southeastern China on Friday morning, bringing high winds and battering rains

GILGIT: The Nepalese mountaineer Ming­ma David, who broke his own record to become the only person in the world to

BEIJINJ: Chinese short-video app TikTok is allowing users to create text-only posts, in the latest attempt by a