01:07 A photography exhibition about COVID-19 in France opened in Chengdu City of southwest China's Sichuan Province on May 8 as a part of the ongoing 15th Sino-French
People are buying tomatoes from a vegetable vendor in India, April 17, 2021. /CFP SP Global Ratings said on Friday it expects India's economic growth to fall to 9.8 percent for the year under
Three staff members of Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli's secretariat have tested positive for COVID-19, local media reported on Saturday.Oli has tested negative for the novel coronavirus, repor
VCG A tropical disturbance has formed off the west coast of Mexico, one that would be the first of the 2021 eastern Pacific hurricane season.According to a CNN report, the system developed mor
Israeli police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades towards rock-hurling Palestinian youth at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque on Friday amid growing anger over the potential eviction of Palestinians fro
Afghanistan's capital city Kabul was hit by blackout as two power pylons were destroyed in explosion on Friday, the country's Breshna Sherkat, the national power company, confirmed.The incident took
03:36 Police brutality in America and the killing of unarmed people of African descent should be investigated as crimes against humanity. That's according to an international inquiry by
03:00 Facebook's Oversight Board has decided to uphold a decision by the social media giant to ban former U.S. President Donald Trump at least for the time being.Check outThe China Repo
The UK has reported a further four COVID deaths and 1,946 new cases in the latest 24-hour period, official figures show. /Xinhua The UK has reported a further four COVID deaths and 1,946 new c
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was vaccinated with China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine on Monday night.In a Facebook live video posted by senator Bong Go, Health S
A logo of NASA. /CFP U.S. space agency NASA has told Elon Musk's SpaceX to halt work under a contract it won to develop a lunar spacecraft, pending the outcome of challenges by rival bidders a
The four astronauts of SpaceX's first full mission to the International Space Station have splashed back down to Earth off the coast of Florida.It is the first US splashdown under the cover of darkne
SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts have begun undocking from the International Space Station (ISS).Four crew members – three NASA astronauts and one from Japan's space agency – are on their way home from the I
A magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck off the coast of Japan's Miyagi Prefecture on Saturday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA).The temblor occurred at 10:27 a.m. local time (0127 GMT) a
02:37 During the pandemic, many parents have found themselves leaving the workplace for a new full time job at home – taking care of the kids. But will months of full-time parenting har
02:33 During the COVID-19 pandemic, many parents in the U.S. have found themselves leaving the workplace to do a full-time jobathome– taking care of the kids.Will that harm their chance
Beijing-based rental expert Danke Apartment defaulted on rents in 2020 as a result of pandemic-induced cash crunch. /CFP China has issued a guideline to strengthen regulation on asset-light ho