SYDNEY: An Australian university is testing new materials designed to lessen the impact of shark bites, researchers said Tuesday, in a project aimed at reducing
OTTAWA: Canadian lawmakers on Monday began their last session before elections later this year in new temporary digs to make way for a huge renovation
NORTH CAROLINA: A Duke University professor has stepped down as a programme head after telling students to speak only English in faculty buildings, the university
Terminally ill choose death with dignity after passage of law, data shows SEOUL: More than 35,000 terminally ill patients have chosen to forgo life-prolonging treatment
LONDON: Just days after suffering the biggest humiliation in British political history, Prime Minister Theresa May was closer than ever Tuesday to finally reaching an
BEIJING: Millions of Chinese have begun the annual exodus for the Lunar New Year, the world’s largest annual human migration, leaving major cities to return
BANGKOK: Toxic smog forced Bangkok authorities to issue an unprecedented order to shut nearly 450 schools on Wednesday, as authorities struggle to manage a pollution crisis
MANILA: A grenade attack on a mosque in the troubled southern Philippines killed two people early Wednesday, authorities said, just days after a deadly Catholic cathedral
CHICAGO: Tens of millions of people in the United States are bracing for a potentially life-threatening deep arctic chill forecast to hit swaths of the country
HAVANA : A rare and powerful tornado that struck Havana killed three people and left 172 injured, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said early yesterday. Diaz-Canel, who
