As the Covid-19 pandemic progresses, bioinformaticians like Dr. Sebastian Maurer-Stroh are helping us make sense of SARS-CoV-2’s continuing evolution.

The morning jams are gone, Orchard Road is a ghost town and the tourists at Merlion Park have disappeared. To fight Covid-19, Singapore went into circuit breaker mode on April 7. The Straits Times executive photojournalists BENJAMIN SEETOR and MARK CHEONG document what the country looks like - from above - in these photos shot exclusively with a drone.

Over 120 newsrooms from around the world will come together today to mark World News Day, including journalists from Toronto to Taipei, Spain to Singapore. This, however, is not an occasion for journalists to pat ourselves on the back for the work we do. Rather, the focus is on how journalists go about reporting on issues that matter to our audiences.

On September 28 we celebrate the third annual World News Day. Across six continents, more than 100 newsrooms are marking the day. World News Day is not intended as an industry celebration. It is instead a day to pause and give the people we have turned into stories a platform to explain how journalism made a difference in their lives.

US President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in both 2016 and 2017, after years of reporting heavy losses from his business enterprises to offset hundreds of millions of dollars in income, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing tax-return data.

Swiss voters have overwhelmingly rejected a right-wing party’s attempt to scrap a pact allowing the free movement of people from the European

Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to exchange around 1,000 prisoners, including 15 Saudis, as part of trust-building steps aimed at reviving a

South Africa’s president has reprimanded Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and docked her pay for three months for taking a delegation to

Indian Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has seized the phones of Deepika Padukone, Sara Ali Khan, and Shraddha Kapoor among others in an escalating drugs probe following the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) oldest ally in Punjab and at the national level, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has quit the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over the Narendra Modi government’s controversial farm Bills.

French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday said that Belarus’s leader Alexander Lukashenko must step down, after the EU refused to recognise him as the legitimate president of the ex-Soviet country.

US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said he expects “personal attacks and lies” from Donald Trump in their first televised debate tomorrow, comparing the Republican president to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.

France will face a months-long coronavirus epidemic that will overwhelm its health system if something does not change, one of the country’s top medical figures warned yesterday, as the global death toll inched towards one million.

The bodies of two Palestinian fishermen who Palestinian officials say were shot dead by Egyptian naval forces were returned to Gaza, the territory’s ruling Islamist group Hamas has said.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is poised to retain power at next month’s election, a widely watched poll has showed, although it said a recent Covid-19 outbreak has dented her support slightly.

US Senate Republicans on Sunday prepared a concerted push toward quickly confirming President Donald Trump's third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, despite strenuous objections by Democrats who appear powerless to stop them.

Texas officials on Saturday lifted a warning for all but one Houston-area community to stop using tap water because it might be tainted with a deadly brain-eating microbe.

President Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, and she pledged to become a justice in the mold of the late staunch conservative Antonin Scalia, setting another milestone in Trump’s rightward shift of the top US judicial body.

The death toll from the crash of a Ukrainian air force plane carrying mostly cadets in the east of the country climbed to 23 yesterday, emergency services said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday made a strong case for India’s inclusion as a permanent member of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and asked how long will his country be “kept out of the decision-making structures” of the global body.