The Afghan government imposed a month-long curfew across almost all of the country on Saturday in a bid to stop the Taliban from invading cities.
Fighting between the Taliban and Afghan government forces...
Many popular websites fell offline on Thursday in a widespread global outage of service.
Visitors attempting to reach some sites received DNS errors, meaning their requests could not reach the websites.
Affected...
The show director of the Olympics opening ceremony has been dismissed, one day before the event is due to be held.
Footage of Kentaro Kobayashi from the 1990s recently emerged in which he seems to be...
More than 13 million Australians - about half the population - are in lockdown after a third state imposed restrictions to curb a Delta outbreak.
South Australia, home to 1.7 million people, joined Victoria...
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused excess deaths in India to cross more than four million, a new study has found.
Excess deaths are a measure of how many more people are dying than would be expected compared...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged caution as most legal restrictions on social contact are lifted in England.
There are now no limits on how many people can meet or attend events, nightclubs can...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pledged full support for the victims of some of the country's worst flooding in decades.
Record rainfall in western Europe caused rivers to burst their banks,...
The United States is set to begin evacuations of Afghan interpreters who assisted US-led forces during the conflict and are deemed to be at risk.
Operation Allies Refuge is set to start during the last...
Cuban authorities have confirmed that a man was killed during unrest in the country - the first confirmation of a death since the protests broke out.
State media say Diubis Laurencio Tejeda, 36, died...
Dozens of people have been arrested in Cuba after thousands joined the biggest protests for decades against the island's Communist government, media and opposition sources say.
Cubans have been angered...
Police in Haiti say they have arrested a doctor they believe is a key suspect in organising last week's assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.
They say Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a 63-year-old...
A hit squad composed mostly of retired Colombian soldiers assassinated Haiti's President Jovenel Moïse earlier this week, police say.
The group included 26 Colombians and two Americans of Haitian...
Dilip Kumar, one of India's earliest and most famous actors, has died in Mumbai at the age of 98.
A veritable legend, Kumar acted in more than 65 films over nearly five decades, playing roles that ranged...
The "final warning" on fine notepaper was delivered to me in the depth of a harsh Kabul winter at the peak of a Cold War conflict. "I must advise you that you should leave Afghanistan without delay while...
The remaining section of a partially collapsed apartment block near Miami has been demolished over safety fears as a tropical storm approaches Florida.
Explosive charges were used to bring down the last...
Australia will halve the number of international arrivals it accepts after Covid outbreaks put half the population in lockdown this week.
The country's strict border rules have only allowed Australians...
China's President Xi Jinping has warned that foreign powers will "get their heads bashed" if they attempt to bully or influence the country.
He delivered a defiant speech at an event marking the centenary...
Kim Jong-un has berated top officials over lapses which caused an unspecified "great crisis" related to Covid-19, North Korean state media report.
It was a rare sign of the pandemic's severity in North...
A Covid outbreak in Sydney linked to the highly contagious Delta variant has grown to 128 cases.
A small number of positive infections have also been recorded in the Northern Territory, Queensland and...
Rescuers are desperately searching for any survivors trapped in the rubble of a collapsed 12-storey residential building north of Miami.
At least one person has been killed and 99 are still missing, officials...