The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope on Hawaii has released pictures that show features as small as 30km across. This is remarkable when set against the…

A student has been shot after a man opened fire during a protest against a controversial citizenship law in the Indian capital, Delhi. Police overpowered and arrested the gunman outside the city's prestigious Jamia Millia Islamia university. Shootings inside educational institutes are not a common…

India’s on Wednesday approved moves to ease abortion laws, enabling rape survivors and other vulnerable women to terminate pregnancies up to 24 weeks after inception. Current Indian law does not allow terminations after 20 weeks unless the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother, but the restrictions…

ndonesian authorities are offering a reward to anyone who can rescue a saltwater crocodile with a motorbike tyre stuck around its neck—and survive.…

Russia said yesterday it was closing its border with China to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus and would stop issuing electronic visas to Chinese…

Thirty-six people have been killed in a suspected militia attack in the eastern DR Congo region of Beni, where hundreds have died in violence since November, a local official said Wednesday. Congolese troops have been carrying out a military operation on an armed group in the east of the country—long…

Greta Thunberg to trademark 'Fridays for Future' BBC, London Climate change activist Greta Thunberg says she is trademarking her name and the #FridaysForFuture movement to stop people from impersonating her. In 2018, Ms Thunberg's school strike grew into a global movement that became known…