Americans are celebrating a Thanksgiving Day transformed by the coronavirus pandemic, with the Macy’s parade limited to a television-only event and many families resigned to meeting on video for turkey
A severe cyclone slammed into India’s southern coast early on Thursday, killing at least five people and uprooting trees and power lines. [bc_video video_id=”6212519121001″ account_id=”6116119081001″ player_id=”CJdhmO46zo” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”autoplay” min_width=”0px”
More areas in England face tougher coronavirus restrictions when the lockdown ends next week to fight the pandemic and reduce its spread. [bc_video video_id=”6212513915001″ account_id=”6116119081001″ player_id=”CJdhmO46zo” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”autoplay” min_width=”0px”
US President-elect Joe Biden has called for an end to the “grim season of division”, as the country faces a long, hard winter with Covid-19. In a speech for the
UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned on Wednesday the “economic emergency had only just begun” as he outlined the UK’s spending plans amid the ongoing coronavirus. Sunak said the government had
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he had granted a “full pardon” to his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
Argentina’s president Alberto Fernandez has declared three days of mourning following the death of football legend Diego Maradona. Fernandez tweeted a picture of him hugging Maradona alongside a heartfelt message. It said: “You
The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, has revealed that she had a miscarriage earlier this year. In an article for The New York Times, Meghan wrote: “I knew, as I
Russia says one of its warships caught and chased off a US Navy destroyer after it entered territorial waters in the Sea of Japan on Tuesday. Moscow accused the USS
The UK’s Secretary of State for the Home Department Priti Patel sought to publicly intervene three times on behalf of an offshore company which has been accused in a British
Nigeria’s former minister of finance and the frontrunner in the WTO DG race, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is set to be named the new Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after
Chinese authorities are testing millions of people, imposing lockdowns and shutting down schools after multiple locally transmitted coronavirus cases were discovered in three cities across the country last week. As
AstraZeneca has reported that late-stage trials of its COVID-19 vaccine developed with Oxford University were “highly effective’’ in preventing disease, preventing 70% of people from developing the coronavirus. [bc_video video_id=”6211708542001″
Israel’s cabinet ratified a mutual visa exemption agreement with the United Arab Emirates on Sunday — the Jewish state’s first ever such agreement with an Arab country. The ministers voted
US President-elect Joe Biden will announce the first of his Cabinet picks on Tuesday, as he moves ahead with planning for his incoming administration. Ron Klain, Biden’s incoming White House
Iran on Sunday vowed to defeat any Israeli attempt to harm its role in Syria, saying the era of “hit and run” attacks by Israel there was over, days after
California began a night-time curfew on Saturday, in an attempt to curb a surge in coronavirus cases. The western state’s latest figures are now worse than the previous peak in
Leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies on Saturday vowed to ensure a fair distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, drugs and tests around the world and do what was needed to
Europe is set to lift its flight ban on the Boeing 737 MAX passenger jetliner in January after US regulators last week ended a 20-month grounding triggered by two fatal
Several rockets hit residential areas in the early rush hour in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, killing at least eight civilians and wounding 31. The attack happened hours before
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