UN chief yesterday warned against a new “Cold War” between US and China as the leaders of the world’s most advanced economies delivered their speeches at UN.

Senior EU and British officials will hold urgent talks next week on the Brexit withdrawal agreement, which has been threatened by London’s attempt to override parts of the treaty, Brussels said yesterday.

Russia yesterday said it will develop military cooperation with Tehran after a United Nations arms embargo on Iran expires next month, despite US efforts to block arms deals.

Warming in the Arctic shrank the ice covering the polar ocean this year to its second-lowest extent in four decades, scientists announced Monday, yet another sign of how climate change is rapidly transforming the region.

US President Donald Trump has said at the United Nations General Assembly that the world body “must hold China accountable” for its actions related to the outbreak, while China’s President Xi Jinping has called for enhanced cooperation over the pandemic and stressed that China had no intention of fighting “either a Cold War or a hot one” with any other country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told the UN General Assembly the World Health Organization should be strengthened to coordinate the global response to the coronavirus pandemic and proposed a high-level conference on vaccine cooperation.

Global airlines called on Tuesday for airport Covid-19 tests for all departing international passengers to replace the quarantines they blame for exacerbating the travel slump.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told people today to work from home where possible and ordered bars and restaurants to shut earlier in a bid to tackle a fast-spreading second wave of Covid-19.

In a write-up published in The Guardian today, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the climate crisis and Covid-19 desperately need international cooperation.

The richest one percent of people are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the poorest half of the world’s population -- 3.1 billion people -- new research showed yesterday.

Demanding Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s immediate resignation, the country’s major opposition parties have launched an alliance to hold a countrywide protest movement to oust his government.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday deplored the lack of multilateral solutions to global challenges as he opened a summit for the world body’s 75th anniversary.

A ‘People’s Plaque’ installed by protesters near Bangkok’s Royal Palace was also “planted in the hearts of the Thai people,” activists said yesterday, vowing its removal marked only the beginning of their battle to reform the monarchy.

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 27 stone coffins at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, a burial ground that is also home to one of the world's oldest pyramids, the ministry of tourism and antiquities says.

Robert W Gore, whose invention of what created the breathable-yet-waterproof fabric known as Gore-Tex revolutionised outdoor wear and helped spawn uses in numerous other fields, has died. He was 83.

Colombia’s President Ivan Duque called Saturday for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to be prosecuted as a “war criminal” in a joint news conference with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Two days of Chinese military aircraft approaching Taiwan demonstrate that Beijing is a threat to the entire region and have shown Taiwanese

Iran yesterday said its arch-foe the United States was “isolated” after a US unilateral declaration that UN sanctions are back in force against the Islamic republic was dismissed by other major powers.

Thousands of protesters cheered as activists installed a plaque in Bangkok Sunday declaring that Thailand “belongs to the people” -- the boldest show of defiance in a youth-led movement which is questioning the unassailable monarchy’s role in the country.

Pakistan’s deposed premier Nawaz Sharif yesterday staged a political comeback by criticising the powerful Army and said the opposition was not against Prime Minister Imran Khan but against those who brought an “inefficient” man to power.