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Heavy rain in India triggers floods, landslides; at least 125 dead
Rescue teams in India struggled through thick sludge and debris on Saturday to reach dozens of submerged homes as the death toll ...Pandemic-hit Tokyo Olympics open in low-key ceremony without fans
The Tokyo Olympics were declared open in an eerily empty stadium on Friday after defying a year’s pandemic delay and lingering coronavirus ...Slimmed-down ceremony to open pandemic-hit Tokyo Games
The Tokyo Olympics opens on Friday with a ceremony reflecting a Games like no other, walking a fine line between celebrating the ...Opening ceremony director fired on Tokyo Games eve over Holocaust joke
Tokyo Olympics organisers have fired the opening ceremony director on the eve of the event after reports emerged of a past joke ...Death toll in South Africa unrest rises to 276
The death toll from recent riots in South Africa has risen to 276, and police are investigating 168 cases for murder, a ...Central China’s Henan province swamped after heaviest rain in 1,000 years
Large swathes of China’s central Henan province were under water on Wednesday, with at least a dozen people dead in its capital ...Rockets land near Afghanistan’s presidential palace
At least three rockets hit near the presidential palace shortly before Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was to give an address to mark ...US and allies accuse China of global hacking spree
The United States and its allies accused China on Monday of a global cyberespionage campaign, mustering an unusually broad coalition of countries ...Foreign missions in Kabul issue joint call for Taliban ceasefire
Fifteen diplomatic missions and the NATO representative in Kabul joined hands on Monday to urge the Taliban to halt military offensives across ...Flash floods hit Bavaria as European death toll climbs to 183
Flash floods hit southern Germany on Sunday, killing at least one person and adding to the flooding devastation that has claimed the ...