World

South Korea will begin fining people who fail to wear masks in public on Friday as it reported 191 new coronavirus cases, with daily infections continuing to creep higher.

With time and options running out, President Donald Trump's campaign is peppering states with a flurry of legal challenges aimed at slowing down the vote certification process a longshot strategy that has almost no chance of reversing Presidentelect Joe...

Clubs from Australia and New Zealand will stage a sixweek transTasman tournament next year following their respective domestic Super Rugby competitions.

The head of Pfizer Inc in Brazil said on Thursday the drugmaker is negotiating with the South American nation to supply its potential COVID19 vaccine in the first quarter of 2021.

Trump and his supporters have launched groundless attacks on one of the most widely used technology firms in the US, Dominion Voting Systems, seeking to sow doubt in the results of the 2020 election.

Saudi Arabia will strike those who threaten the kingdom's security and stability with an "iron fist", the crown prince said on Thursday, one day after an attack on a Remembrance Day ceremony injured two in the kingdom.

Russia's supreme court has ruled that U.S. investor Michael Calvey and other executives of private equity firm Baring Vostok may be released from house arrest, the fund said on Thursday.

Russia's economy contracted 3.6% yearonyear in the third quarter, preliminary data showed on Thursday, as the coronavirus pandemic and lower prices for oil, Russia key export, took their toll.

Islamic State claimed responsibility on Thursday for an attack on a nonMuslim cemetery in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah which wounded several people, without providing any evidence.

Britain has given the green light to a $2.2 billion tunnel under Stonehenge aimed at hiding a nearby main road that has long blighted the mysterious prehistoric circle of stones in southern England.

U.S. mining companies are moving fast to align themselves with Joe Biden's climate change agenda, saying the lithium, copper and other metals they produce can help the presidentelect achieve his ambitious goals to slash carbon emissions and electrify the...

States and private charities will commit to more than $500 million to boost research into the novel coronavirus at the Paris Peace Forum, organisers of the event said on Thursday.

The United States continued to notch up grim records on Wednesday as it battles through the coronavirus pandemic, with a worsening outbreak in the northeast of the country adding pressure on top of an already reeling Midwest.

Here is a timeline of developments since China imposed national security legislation in Hong Kong this year, making anything Beijing regards as subversion, secession, terrorism or colluding with foreign forces punishable by up to life in prison.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel to stay on in her position, in what one source said could be a prelude to Trump's announcing plans to run for president in 2024.

Oil prices rose in early trade on Thursday, taking the week's gains to more than 12% on growing hopes that the world's major producers will hold off on a planned supply increase as soaring cases of COVID19 dent fuel demand.