The Prime Minister will have to clear a COVID-19 test on arrival at Changi airport on Thursday before a fly-in-fly-out visit to the city-state in lockdown.

For the next two decades, the scenic city and tourist magnet is going to look more like one gigantic construction site.

The campaign for the midterm elections has been one of the bloodiest in recent history: 97 politicians had been killed and 935 attacked.

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The author of the 1991 feminist classic The Beauty Myth had shared outlandish misinformation about the COVID vaccine.

The Red Army soldier flattened the electric fence of the Nazi death camp with his T-34 tank, found “skeletons everywhere” and kept going.

Prince Harry now sits in sixth place, with his first child Archie in seventh. Prince Andrew, meanwhile, has been pushed down to ninth in line. 

Naftali Bennett, the nationalist set to replace Netanyahu, called on Israel’s longest-serving leader not to leave “scorched earth” behind.

In a remote corner of East Timor, a scandal of enormous proportions has shaken an almost universally Catholic country and brought powerful forces into play.

British TV presenter Piers Morgan, who had clashed with the couple, declined to comment on Lilibeth ‘Lili’ Diana Mountbatten-Windsor’s birth in California.

Pope Francis on Sunday expressed his pain over the discovery in Canada of the remains of 215 Indigenous students of church-run residential schools and pressed religious and political authorities to shed light on “this sad affair.”

The couple named the baby Lilibet ‘Lili’ as a tribute to her great-grandmother, the Queen.

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The US will give Taiwan 750,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, part of President Joe Biden’s move to share tens of millions of jabs globally, three American senators said on Sunday, after the self-ruled island complained that China is hindering its eff...

Scientists have employed microbes to remove grime that stained a number of Michelangelo masterpieces for 500 years.

Trump joined a chorus of Republican politicians who are criticising Fauci for asking Americans to wear masks to guard against the virus.

The British public appears to have rejected a push by their farmers to paint Australian meat as substandard, as a new survey showed Australia was the first choice for Brits seeking to increase trade post-Brexit. 

Facing a demographic crisis of its own invention, China scrambles to turn back the clock. But is it too late?

Anti-semitic reaction in Australia to renewed hostilities has been less vocal than in other parts of the world but it is still a cause for concern.

At least 20 people were killed by Myanmar’s security forces in the Ayeyarwady river delta region on Saturday after villagers armed with catapults and crossbows fought back against troops searching for weapons, local media and residents said.

The Russian leader has never publicly identified his daughters. That makes for an odd wink-and-nod scenario every time they appear.

African pouched rat Magawa is the most successful rodent trained to detect land mines in Cambodia’s fields, sniffing out 141,000 square metres.

Refused entry at every port, 90 refugees languished at sea for three months. Indonesian villagers discovered the survivors on a deserted island.

The former president hinted he would run again despite the two-year Facebook ban introduced after the social media giant ruled he was a risk to public safety.

US District Judge Roger Benitez compared the AR-15 rifle to a Swiss army knife, “a perfect combination of home defence weapon and homeland defence equipment”.

The nations to Australia’s north are enduring their worst outbreaks of the pandemic, but experts say that will continue until they get enough vaccines.

A church report estimated at least 3,677 people were abused by clergy in Germany between 1946 and 2014. More than half of the victims were 13 or under.

Scientists drilled into the mudbanks on the Bay of Bengal to measure the impact of millenia of rainy seasons.

At a rare public appearance, the Russian leader said US rioters “were not looters or thieves” and refused to say if he would down a plane to arrest a dissident.

Police blocked off a Hong Kong park to prevent people gathering to commemorate the anniversary of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and arrested the planned vigil’s organiser.

The top US infectious disease expert said the medical records of nine people might provide vital clues into whether COVID-19 first emerged as the result of a lab leak.

Britain’s medicines regulator said on Friday it had approved the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech for use on 12- to 15-year-olds.

Australian Sean Turnell, deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and others will face court on June 23, with lawyers concerned no legal representation will mean no transparency with the hearing.

Papuans fear crackdown on independence will get much worse as autonomy deadline looms.

Bahraini officials said this week that it would be offering Pfizer-BioNTech doses to certain high-risk individuals who have already received two Sinopharm jabs.

Some gourmands have taken to calling cicadas “the other white meat” – or “tree shrimp” because of their genetic closeness to crustaceans.

But with 120 incidents over the past decades, it’s still far from clear what the flying objects are.

“I criticised Alexander Grigoryevich [Lukashenko] a lot, but...I began to understand that he was doing the right thing,” said Raman Pratasevich.

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Trials of the vehicle had to be suspended from November 2020 to March of this year, after troops suffered swollen joints and tinnitus.

A Stanford University student mocked a right-wing club with a satirical flier. In response, he was nearly denied graduation.

The fire aboard the Kharg warship follows a series of mysterious explosions that began in 2019, targeting commercial ships in the Gulf of Oman.

Investigators in US attorney’s offices handling ransomware attacks will be expected to share both updated case details and active technical information with leaders in Washington.

Australia is not among the more than 40 countries that will receive allocations in the first phase of the US vaccine-sharing program.

After a slow start, China is now doing what virtually no other country in the world can: administering COVID-19 shots at a staggering pace.

The ultra-fast jets would cut flying time between London and the New York area by 50 per cent to about 3½ hours, while Tokyo would be only six hours from San Francisco.

The Singapore-registered MV X-Press Pearl, carrying 1486 containers, including 25 tonnes of nitric acid, was anchored off Sri Lanka when a fire erupted.

We must not sully our reputation in Afghanistan by leaving our allies in the lurch.

Keep Venice afloat but don’t turn it into Disneyland, say a group of celebrities putting forward a 10-point plan to save the city.

A four-day holiday, a year of celebrations, star-studded concerts and beacons lit up across the Commonwealth are planned to mark Her Majesty’s 70th year on the throne.