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Smoke and flames are seen following an Israeli air strike in the Khan Yunis town of the southern Gaza Strip on September 16, 2020. - Israel bombed sites in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, Palestinian security sources said, after rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled territory into Israel the previous evening. The retaliatory attack came the morning after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed a landmark accord in Washington establishing diplomatic relations with the Jewish state. (AFP)

Israeli jets bomb Gaza, 'coinciding' with Netanyahu's signing of...

At least two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip the previous evening, one of which was intercepted by Israel's...

16 Sept 2020 12:11 PM IST

Japans Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, receives flowers from Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga after Suga was elected as new head of Japans ruling party at the Liberal Democratic Partys (LDP) leadership election, in Tokyo. (AP)

Shinzo Abe's cabinet resigns ahead of Suga becoming Japan's new PM

Yoshihide Suga, the new leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, is set to take office as Japan's Prime Minister today

16 Sept 2020 11:32 AM IST

Chinas approach runs counter to that of many Western countries, where experts have warned against authorizing the emergency use of vaccines that have not completed testing. (AP)

In coronavirus vaccine race, China inoculates thousands before trials...

Vaccine safety came into sharp focus last week when AstraZeneca Plc paused late-stage clinical trials of its COVID-19...

16 Sept 2020 10:05 AM IST

$Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on his instagram account, shows himself, centre, and his wife Yulia, right, daughter Daria, and son Zakhar, top left, posing for a photo in a hospital in Berlin, Germany. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has posted the picture of himself in a hospital in Germany and says hes breathing on his own. He posted on Instagram Tuesday Sept. 15, 2020: \Hi, this is Navalny. I have been missing you. I still cant do much, but yesterday I managed to breathe on my own for the entire day.\ (Navalny instagram via AP)$ World

'Poisoned' Putin critic Navalny shares hospital photo of himself

Navalny's spokeswoman said that once he has recovered, the Putin critic plans to return to Russia

16 Sept 2020 9:38 AM IST

(L-R)Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif al-Zayani, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan hold up documents after participating in the signing of the Abraham Accords where the countries of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates recognize Israel, at the White House in Washington, DC, September 15, 2020. - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the foreign ministers of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates arrived September 15, 2020 at the White House to sign historic accords normalizing ties between the Jewish and Arab states. (AFP)

Israel signs pacts with UAE, Bahrain in White House ceremony

The agreements do not address the decades-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, who view the pacts as a...

16 Sept 2020 9:00 AM IST

The failure of Facebook to appear before the committee shows that it is trying to hide its role in the Delhi riots, Aam Aadmi Partys Raghav Chadha told reporters. This photograph shows a riot affected area in NE Delhi as on 8 March 2020 (Photo | Wikimedia Commons - DTM)

Facebook India chief Ajit Mohan gives hate speech hearing a miss

Last week, a Delhi Assembly panel had summoned him to determine if the social networking site deliberately ignored...

15 Sept 2020 8:41 PM IST

The more than 6,000-word memo by former employee Sophie Zhang cited organised efforts to harass, mislead or manipulate people in Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Bolivia, Ecuador, India and elsewhere, along with election manipulation efforts in the United States and Brazil.

Facebook not doing enough to stop election manipulation, says fired...

She said she found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse the platform on vast scales to...

15 Sept 2020 8:15 PM IST

The rules require telecommunications providers to treat all data traffic the same, and prevent them from reserving better access for their own services, or selling bandwidth to big companies like Google and Netflix while leaving a slower Internet for everyone else.

European Union top court verdict keeps the internet egalitarian

The European Court of Justice on Tuesday issued its first interpretation of the EU's net neutrality rules since they...

15 Sept 2020 7:22 PM IST

YouTube Shorts will be modified based on user feedback before being made more broadly available.

As YouTube Shorts gets rolled out in India, could it dull desi...

YouTube Shorts videos are limited to 15 seconds, according to the Google-owned platform used by some 2 billion people...

15 Sept 2020 6:26 PM IST

Rajnaths warning to China: Any attempt to unilaterally alter status quo is unacceptable

Rajnath's warning to China: Any attempt to unilaterally alter status...

After Singh's statement, the Congress wanted to raise certain issues which was not allowed by Speaker Om Birla.

15 Sept 2020 6:15 PM IST

The passenger was arrested by customs officials at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad on Sunday.

Hyderabad international airport now has contact-less elevators

The airport has developed the system which is based on Infrared (IR) technology.

15 Sept 2020 5:44 PM IST

Raghuvansh Prasad Singh

AA Edit | Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, the mathematician whose formula...

Dr Singh, a PhD in mathematics and a former professor, had his political baptism in the Jayaprakash movement against...

15 Sept 2020 5:40 PM IST