Three local officials in Shanghai have been sacked over a slack response to the COVID-19 outbreak in China's largest city, where residents are complaining of harsh lockdown conditions leading to shortages of food and basic necessities.
Saudi Arabia raised the number of Hajj pilgrims allowed this year to one million from inside and outside the kingdom, Saudi state news agency SAP reported early on Saturday.
A Pakistani court sentenced Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed, founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group blamed by the United States and India for the 2008 Mumbai siege, to 31 years in prison in two cases of terrorism financing, court documents showed on Friday.
The motion picture academy on Friday banned Will Smith from attending the Oscars or any other academy event for 10 years following his slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards.
Two men were acquitted of conspiracy charges on Friday in the foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Why have some of the most powerful nations in the world — like China, India and Brazil — refused to officially condemn Russia over its invasion of Ukraine? This week on Nothing is Foreign, a look beyond the western perspective on the war.
Global atmospheric levels of the potent but short-lived greenhouse gas methane increased by a record amount last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday, worrying scientists because of the large role methane has in climate change.
Israeli security forces on Friday shot dead a Palestinian man suspected of killing two people in a Tel Aviv bar after an hours-long manhunt through the city.
Nearly two weeks after ‘the slap that was heard around the world’, actor Will Smith awaits a disciplinary decision from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
