India’s total virus cases swept past 25 million on Tuesday as the country registered more than 260,000 new cases and a record 4,329 deaths in the past 24 hours.

Scott Morrison’s adviser Brendan Pearson told South Korean business leaders there was “a big risk if it becomes natural for countries to dictate” carbon taxes.

The mission to raise Indonesia’s Nanggala submarine wreck from the seabed near Bali has found two life rafts but there’s no sign of the 53 men onboard.

The US top military chief General Mark Milley warned the conflict could spread “and you risk a whole series of negative consequences if the fighting continues”.

A new climate change roadmap calls on advanced economies to phase out dirty coal-fired power plants by 2030 - a decade ahead of developing nations.

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By hearing the case in their next term, the conservative-majority bench will look at whether to overturn a central part of the decades-old ruling.

A new Kyrgyzstan law allows the government to take control of the company for three months if, as RFERL reports, the company “damages or endangers the local environment”.

The deal would see the required salary threshold lowered and the minimum duration of a work contract reduced. The recognition of professional skills in the IT sector would be facilitated.

The deal was a worrying development for Matt Gaetz the Republican from Florida under investigation into whether he violated sex trafficking laws by paying the a 17-year-old for sex.

A country’s fertility rate falls as it grows richer. But in China’s case, it’s quite abnormal.

Twenty-two flights from Britain were due to land in Portugal on Monday, with most heading to the southern Algarve region, famous for its beaches and golf courses.

The US President also revealed he was co-ordinating an “entirely new” multilateral effort with other democracies to vastly increase the global supply of vaccines.

The most powerful cyclone in more than two decades, which has already killed at least 16 people and left a trail of destruction, has now made landfall in the state of Gujarat.

The Israeli military says it has destroyed 15 kilometres of militant tunnels and killed a top Gaza leader of Islamic Jihad as fighting enters a second week.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’ll do “whatever it takes” to restore order and that his goal is to “degrade” the ability of Hamas to threaten Israel.

In the last week, the number of new cases plunged by nearly 70 per cent in India’s financial capital Mumbai, home to 22 million people.

Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea all flattened the curve with quarantine and contact-tracing. Now their sluggish vaccination programs are being questioned.

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Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeier also decried anti-racism training and education and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin’s diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year in a worsening trend and Australia is part of the region that is worst affected, the World Health Organisation says.

On at least a few occasions, Gates pursued women who worked for him at Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, say people with direct knowledge of his overtures.

While Australia has excelled at keeping the virus at bay, it seems to be falling behind the rest of the world in its understanding of what the vaccines can do. 

A police raid on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam, was one of several actions that led, less than a month later, to the sudden resumption of war between Israel and Hamas.

Japan, a country that’s witnessed the consequences of too much government power, has proved reluctant to implement strict rules to combat a mounting health crisis ahead of the Olympics.

Heavy rainfall and winds from the cyclone, which formed in the Arabian Sea, had already pounded some states along India’s western coast, causing power outages, downing trees and resulting in deaths.

Johnson was responding to a video that showed a convoy of cars bearing Palestinian flags driving through a Jewish community in north London, broadcasting anti-Semitic messages.

The attack took place one day after Israel’s military was accused of misleading foreign journalists by announcing it had launched a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, then retracting that claim an hour later.

It’s an odd proposition at an odd time given that major airlines have suspended flights to Israel amid the deadly violence.

The Gaza Health Ministry says Israeli air strikes in the heart of Gaza City have killed dozens of people in the deadliest single attack since the start of heavy fighting a week ago.

The city state, home to more than 20,000 Australians, was less than three weeks ago named the best place to be during COVID-19. Now it’s virtually in lockdown.

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The latest Israeli air strikes further reduce our understanding of what is taking place inside the Gaza Strip at a time when accurate information is more important than ever.

The Republican who now leads the Arizona county elections department targeted by a GOP audit of the 2020 election results is slamming former President Donald Trump and others in his party for their continued falsehoods about how the election was run.

A tiger that frightened residents after it was last seen wandering around a Houston suburb has been found and appears to be unharmed, police have announced.

With the military seizing power in a February 1 coup and killing hundreds of protesters, Thuzar Wint Lwin hopes to use her platform to call attention to Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement.

The county clerk immediately knew something strange was going on. A mail ballot had arrived from Suzanne Morphew, a woman missing for more than five months.

Charities have rushed to distance themselves from Queen’s son over links with dead paedophile Epstein, in one case hiding a charity plaque bearing his name behind a plant.

My colleagues’ shouts awakened me, and the pounding of my heart drowned out the racing of my mind. What was happening? They were shouting: “Evacuation! Evacuation!”

An Israeli airstrike targeted and destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been silent as India endures one of the worst outbreaks of coronavirus in the world.

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was released from Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital on Saturday, where he was treated for complications related to his earlier bout with coronavirus.

Palestinian supporters have gathered in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, while Israel and Hamas continue to pound each other’s side with heavy fire.

With the fighting between Israel and the Palestinians threatening to escalate into all-out war, the Abraham Accords are facing their first major challenge.

Boris Johnson said terrorist content was “like a metastasising tumour within the internet” that must be excised.

In the most widespread Palestinian protests in years, hundreds of young people clashed with Israeli troops, who shot and killed at least 11.

The country has been struggling to slow infections ahead of the Games.

The Tianwen-1 spacecraft has touched down and its lander, Zhurong, will undergo tests before rolling down a ramp to explore Utopia Planitia.

Travellers should not suffer financially as a result of quarantine restrictions used to protect the health of the population, it says.

The BBC says Bashir has quit for health reasons, as an investigation into claims about his conduct is wrapped up.