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Britains Prince William, Duke of Cambridge wears a face mask as he visits St. Bartholomews Hospital in London. - Prince William tested positive for coronavirus in April according to media reports on November 2, 2020. (AFP)

Prince William's COVID-19 positive kept secret in first wave of UK...

Around the same time in April, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital after testing positive for the...

2 Nov 2020 6:43 PM IST

Priyanca Radhakrishnan (L) with New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern. (Facebook)

Priyanca Radhakrishnan becomes New Zealand's first-ever Indian-origin...

Radhakrishnan, who is from the 2017 intake of new MPs, is a minister outside of the Cabinet

2 Nov 2020 2:00 PM IST

U.S. President Donald Trump makes a campaign stop at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport on November 1, 2020 in Opa Locka, Florida. (AFP)

Trump denies report that he would declare poll victory early

At the same time, he indicated that his team is gearing up for a legal battle on the election night itself

2 Nov 2020 12:36 PM IST

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Sardar Ayaz Sadiq. (Twitter/@AbdulRe81179573)

Pak leader likely to be booked for treason over Abhinandan remarks

Posters of Sadiq have also appeared in Lahore, dubbing him a 'traitor'

1 Nov 2020 9:18 PM IST

Census workers collect information from a woman in Lianyungang, in Chinas eastern Jiangsu province on November 1, 2020, as millions of census-takers began knocking on doors for a once-a-decade head count of the worlds largest population that for the first time will use mobile apps to help crunch the massive numbers. (AFP)

China begins once-a-decade census of world's largest population

After implementing the decades-old one child policy, China is facing a demographic crisis with a rapidly ageing...

1 Nov 2020 8:48 PM IST

A throng of supporters listen to a video message as they await President Donald Trump for a campaign stop, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, at the Butler County Regional Airport in Butler, Pa. (AP)

18 Trump rallies estimated to have led to over 30,000 COVID-19 cases,...

Reserachers say the degree of compliance with guidelines was low in part because the Trump campaign downplayed the risk...

1 Nov 2020 4:07 PM IST

French soldiers and Municipal Police officers stand behind a cordon-off area near the Orthodox Church where an attacker armed with a sawn-off shotgun wounded an Orthodox priest in a shooting before fleeing, on October 31, 2020 in Lyon, said a police source. - The priest, who has Greek nationality, was closing his church when the attack happened and is now in a serious condition, said the source, who asked not to be named. (AFP)

Greek Orthodox priest shot outside French church, suspect arrested

France is already on edge after the killing of three people inside a church in Nice and the beheading of a teacher...

1 Nov 2020 3:56 PM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a virtual press conference inside 10 Downing Street in central London on October 31, 2020 to announce new lockdown restrictions in an effort to curb rising infections of the novel coronavirus. (AFP)

Johnson locks down England as UK COVID-19 cases pass 1 million

Johnson was criticised by political opponents for moving too slowly into the first national lockdown

1 Nov 2020 1:51 PM IST

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden smiles after speaking at a drive-in rally at Broward College, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, in Coconut Creek, Florida. (AP)

Over 70% of Indian-Americans support Biden

With Kamala Harris, the Indian-origin Democratic party vice-presidential nominee, US Americans are now opening up more...

30 Oct 2020 11:56 AM IST

People lights candle outside the Notre-Dame de lAssomption Basilica in Nice on October 29, 2020 in tribute to the three victims of a knife attacker, cutting the throat of at least one woman, inside the church of the French Riviera city. (AFP)

Church attack in Nice: What we know so far

The brutal killings come only two weeks after a French teacher was decapitated outside his school north of Paris by an...

30 Oct 2020 9:11 AM IST

A child wearing a face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus looks as masked people browsing their smartphones near Forbidden City in Beijing. (AP)

China reports surge in symptomless COVID-19 infections

A total of 20 new confirmed and 161 new asymptomatic cases were reported in the mainland on October 25

26 Oct 2020 9:52 AM IST

an IAF fighter jet flies against the backdrop of the Himalayan mountain range, amid the India-China stand off in eastern Ladakh, in Leh district, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. (PTI)

Closely monitoring India-China border row, does not want it to...

The US has been favouring making Quad a security architecture to check China's growing assertiveness

24 Oct 2020 1:41 PM IST