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MELBOURNE: The health of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's most extensive and spectacular ...

PARIS: In normal times the Hotel Avenir Montmartre is a tourist magnet with its ...

PARIS: Britain on Wednesday (Dec 2) become the first Western country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine ...

TOKYO: About 18 per cent of tickets sold in Japan for next year's coronavirus-postponed ...

WASHINGTON: The United States will block imports of cotton it says are harvested with ...

SYDNEY: Australia's parliament was on Thursday (Dec 3) set to pass legislation giving the ...

Bangladesh began transferring several hundred Rohingya refugees on Thursday to what the UN and ...

WASHINGTON: Washington issued new entry rules for Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members travelling to the ...

COVID-19 keeping most US Santas at a distance

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai appeared in court on Thursday charged with fraud, ...

SYDNEY: Australia's pharmaceutical regulator said on Thursday (Dec 3) it is on course to ...

SYDNEY: Australia's parliament on Thursday (Dec 3) passed legislation giving the federal government power ...

VIENNA: The United Nations drug agency's member states on Wednesday (Dec 2) narrowly voted ...

WASHINGTON: More than 1,000 Chinese researchers have left the United States amid a US ...

PARIS: Valery Giscard d'Estaing, the president of France from 1974 to 1981 who became ...

WASHINGTON: Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and adviser, was questioned under oath this week ...

WASHINGTON: The US hopes to have immunised 100 million people against COVID-19 by the end ...

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday that could prevent Chinese companies ...

Boeing Co's 737 MAX staged its first post-grounding flight with media on board on ...

BARCELONA: Heat-related deaths are surging around the world, particularly among older people, scientists said on ...

NASA: Mystery object is 54-year-old rocket, not asteroid

The United States on Wednesday claimed a United Nations meeting of world leaders on ...

President-elect Joe Biden undoubtedly has plans to roll back many of President Donald Trump's ...

We associate the term "getting in the zone" to mean an intense, productive period ...

The stalwart of teen and 20-something fashion was too fixated on brick-and-mortar retail, says ...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo strongly criticised Turkey at a NATO ministerial meeting, ...

Germany will extend restrictive measures designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus until ...

French health authorities on Wednesday reported 14,064 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 ...

The incoming U.S. administration will have to make an early decision on what approach ...

The world's governments plan to produce more than double the amount of coal, oil ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Wednesday (Dec 2) that humanity is waging ...

Iran's Guardian Council watchdog body approved a law on Wednesday (Dec 2) that obliges ...

The European Union criticised Britain's rapid approval of Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine on ...

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday (Dec 2) it had received data from Pfizer and ...

Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine could get emergency use authorization within 24 to 72 hours ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson might be persuaded to take a COVID-19 vaccination on ...

Germany is planning to extend restrictions on restaurants and hotels until Jan. 10, sources ...

MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian authorities on Wednesday (Dec 2) to begin mass ...

This year is on track to be the second hottest on record, behind 2016, ...

BRUSSELS: As millions of European citizens gear up for the festive season, the European ...

Climate change has become the biggest threat to UN-listed natural world heritage sites like ...

The Chinese social media platform WeChat blocked a message by Australia Prime Minister Scott ...

GENEVA: People living in areas with where COVID-19 is spreading should always wear masks ...

It will take until 2022 to vaccinate the whole population of Germany against COVID-19 ...