World famous comic character Tintin turned 93 years old yesterday.
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A number of people turned out in Texas Monday to show support for a mother who was charged with endangering a child after locking her 13-year-old son in the trunk of her car to take him for a Covid test.
Two US police officers who went off to hunt for Pokemon instead of responding to a robbery have been fired.
The US Secret Service arrested a 72-year-old man in New York on Monday after he allegedly phoned them threatening to kill ex-president Donald Trump, a criminal indictment showed.
The wife of a repeatedly detained Chinese human rights lawyer died of cancer on Monday in the United States after her husband's pleas to be allowed to leave China and reunite with her went ignored, rights activists said.
During the Taliban takeover on August 19 Baby Sohail Ahmadi’s parents handed him to a US soldier across the fence fearing that he would be crushed in the crowds of people who were trying to flee the country. The situation was pretty chaotic.
The UK will celebrate Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee this year with a pudding contest, pageantry and public holidays, Buckingham Palace said Monday.
Israel could see up to nearly 40 percent of the population infected by coronavirus during the current wave, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday, as testing facilities nationwide buckled.
A Myanmar junta court on Monday convicted Aung San Suu Kyi of three criminal charges, sentencing her to four years in prison in the latest in a slew of cases against the ousted civilian leader.
Curators combing through a vast historic archive of Freemasonry in Europe amassed by the Nazis in their wartime anti-Masonic purge say they believe there are still secrets to be unearthed.
There is no requirement for new registration for the beneficiaries of precautionary COVID-19 vaccine dose, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Friday.
The total number of Covid-19 registered worldwide since the start of the pandemic topped 300 million on Friday, according to an AFP count based on official figures.
Little Things fame Mithila Palkar has become the latest celebrity to contract COVID-19. On Friday, Mithila took to Instagram and shared the unfortunate news with her followers.
A Berlin court on Friday found a former teacher guilty of murdering a man and cutting up his body as part of a cannibal fantasy after meeting him online, sentencing him to life in prison.
Sri Lanka is facing its worst financial crises in decades with its foreign exchange reserves dwindling and nearly $4.5 billion worth of debt repayments due in 2022
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday hit out at anti-vaccine groups who spread ‘mumbo jumbo’ on social media
Mumbai on Thursday saw a sharp surge in daily COVID cases by logging over 20,000 infections in a span of just 24 hours.
The Omicron variant of COVID-19 appears to be a less severe disease than the Delta strain, but it does not mean it should be categorized as "mild", World Health Organization (WHO)
Chinese authorities said Thursday they have punished officials after footage went viral of an eight-month pregnant woman miscarrying in the locked-down city of Xi'an when a hospital refused her entry without a Covid test.
Chinese authorities said Thursday they have punished officials after footage went viral of an eight-month pregnant woman miscarrying in the locked-down city of Xi'an when a hospital refused her entry without a Covid test.