The Indian Navy’s once majestic and imposing aircraft carrier INS Viraat – now decommissioned – started on its swansong voyage to Alang port in Gujarat, the country’s biggest graveyard for condemned ships, officials said yesterday.

Britain is likely to need to reintroduce some national coronavirus lockdown measures sooner rather than later, a leading epidemiologist said yesterday, as new cases rose to their highest level since early May.

Riot police in Belarus bundled hundreds of women, including a great-grandmother who has become an icon of the protest movement, yesterday into vans as opposition marchers rallied in Minsk seeking an end to President Alexander Lukashenko’s 26-year rule.

At least 12 civilians were killed and more than 10 others injured on Saturday in twin airstrikes on a Taliban base in the northeastern Afghan province of Kunduz, a provincial official said.

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was seen walking down the stairs in a photo posted on his Instagram feed yesterday, five days after a Berlin hospital said he had been taken off a ventilator and could breathe independently.

Intermittently heavy showers brought some relief to flame-stricken western Oregon on Friday, helping firefighters to further subdue deadly blazes that have ravaged much of the state and choked its air with smoke for the better part of two weeks.

A cross-sectional study conducted from May to July at the National Institute of Blood Diseases (NIBD) in Karachi reveals that there is a slim chance of a second wave of the novel coronavirus.

President Dr Arif Alvi has said that important bilateral issues came under discussion during his telephone conversation with his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.

Nigerians in the southern state of Edo braved the coronavirus and voted yesterday to elect a new governor in the country’s first poll since the start of the pandemic.

Mowasalat (Karwa) has announced that 14 routes will be added to its network of city buses from Sunday. These routes are Nos. 10, 22, 31, 34, 40, 41, 76, 129, 156, 156A, 300, 301, 304 and 747

Tens of thousands of people joined the biggest protest in years in Thailand yesterday, cheering calls to curb the powers of King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s monarchy as well as for the removal of former coup leader and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.

Tens of thousands of people joined Thailand's biggest protest in years on Saturday, cheering calls to curb the powers of King Maha Vajiralongkorn's monarchy and for the removal of former coup leader Prayuth Chan-ocha as prime minister.