Biden bans most travel to U.S. from India to limit COVID-19 spread

US President Joe Biden on Friday imposed new travel restrictions on India in light of the COVID-19 epidemic, barring most non-U.S. citizens...

Delivery bikes likely to be banned from main, ring roads

The traffic authorities of Kuwait has decided to impose a ban on delivery motorbikes on main and ring roads due to a rise in accidents. Th...

Turkey jails 6 in crypto probe including Thodex CEO’s siblings

A Turkish court jailed pending trial six suspects late on Thursday as part of a probe into cryptocurrency trading platform Thodex, includin...

Dubai: Bidding for most noble numbers kicks off May 1

Under the patronage and in the presence of Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Sports Council, Mohammed bi...

Phone number of British PM Johnson online for 15 years: reports

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s personal mobile phone number has been on the internet for 15 years, media reports said Friday, raisi...

44 crushed to death at religious festival in Israel

At least 44 people were crushed to death overnight on Friday at an overcrowded ultra-Orthodox religious festival in Israel with attendees d...

Indian states run out of COVID-19 vaccines, nationwide inoculation delayed

Several Indian states have run out of COVID-19 vaccines a day before a planned widening of a nationwide inoculation drive, authorities said...

Before death in exile, Napoleon fought to save his legacy

As the bicentenary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s death draws closer, an exhibition at Les Invalides in Paris sheds light on his death in exile an...

India posts record daily rise in COVID-19 cases of 386,452

India posted a record daily rise in coronavirus cases of 386,452 on Friday, while deaths from COVID-19 jumped by 3,498 over the last 24 hou...

Egyptologists uncover rare tombs from before the Pharaohs

CAIRO: Egyptian archaeologists working on the Nile Delta have uncovered dozens of rare predynastic tombs dating to the period before Egypt’...

Oman announces new restrictions to stem COVID-19 spread

MUSCAT: In a bid to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, Oman’s government on Thursday announced a new set of measures. According ...

A desperate search for oxygen in Delhi ends in grief

Shruti Saha had spent hours searching for somewhere in New Delhi to refill an oxygen canister when she heard that her frantic efforts had b...

Girl, 8, spends two days with father’s body who died of COVID-19

A sorrowful incident has come forth in India, the worst-affected country by coronavirus pandemic, where an eight-year-old girl spent two da...

Heathrow Airport’s COVID losses balloon to $3.4 bln

Heathrow, Britain’s biggest airport, said on Thursday a first quarter loss of 329 million pounds ($459 million) took total losses since the...

Deadly California fire was started to cover up a murder: police

A California fire that killed two people last year was intentionally set to cover up a murder, investigators revealed in a press briefing. ...

Three men charged with hate crimes in Ahmaud Arbery death

WASHINGTON: US prosecutors charged three white men in Georgia on Wednesday with federal hate crimes and attempted kidnapping in last year’s...

WATCH: China launches first module for new space station

China launched the first module of its “Heavenly Palace” space station on Thursday, a milestone in Beijing’s ambitious plan to establish a ...

No more kebabs for bitcoins

Kebab chef Kadir Oner hoped to boost his new business by accepting payment in cryptocurrencies, but a ban by Turkish authorities will force...

Oman provides 10,000 jobs in first three months of 2021

MUSCAT: Oman provided almost 10,000 jobs during the first quarter of the current year. In an interview with Oman TV, Minister of Labour Dr...

Tesla chief Musk trolls Amazon’s Bezos

The space race between the world’s two richest men went into hyperdrive on Tuesday after Tesla chief Elon Musk took a swipe at Jeff Bezos’ ...

Bide says vaccinated people can go mask-free outdoors most of the time

Americans vaccinated against Covid-19 no longer need to mask up outdoors when there is no crowd, President Joe Biden said Tuesday, before c...

Saudi Arabia in talks to sell 1% of Aramco, says crown prince

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said in televised remarks on Tuesday that the kingdom was in discussions to sell 1% of state oil firm Saudi Ara...

WATCH: The animated movie that has taken Arab world by storm

“Alephia 2053”, an Arabic-language animated feature set in a bleak future, has struck a chord in a region all too familiar with autocratic ...

Biden to nominate Trump critic to lead immigration enforcement agency

US President Joe Biden will nominate a Texas sheriff who criticized Trump-era immigration raids to lead the US Immigration and Customs Enfo...

Cryptocurrency Ethereum jumps to record high

Ethereum , the world’s second largest cryptocurrency in terms of market capitalisation, touched a new peak on Wednesday, with participants ...

US orders staff to leave Kabul due to threats

WASHINGTON: The United States has ordered non-essential staff to leave its Kabul embassy, citing increased threats as Washington prepares t...

Shaken US Capitol on high alert for Biden’s first address to Congress

President Joe Biden’s first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday will take place in a U.S. Capitol on high alert, with memor...

COVID Carnage: Indian district stuffs van with 22 bodies amid ambulance shortage

MAHARASHTRA: The bodies of 22 Covid victims in an Indian town were stuffed in one ambulance while it carried them to the crematorium in Mah...