
The United States "celebrated" the release of Taiwanese democracy activist Lee Ming-che after five years of detainment in a People's Republic of China prison for human rights advocacy....

The White House on Monday held the first Easter Egg Roll in two years, a longtime tradition interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic....

Shanti Sethi, a trail-blazing woman Navy veteran has been appointed defence advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris, according to Politico....

A senior US nuclear envoy arrived in South Korea on Monday for talks to denuclearise the Korean Peninsula, according to the South Korean Foreign Ministry....

Because of their small and relatively collapsible airways, young children with Omicron are more vulnerable to upper airway infection such as croup, which if severe can lead to cardiac arrest, finds a study....

A giant container ship named the 'Ever Forward' with more than 4,000 containers aboard was refloated on Sunday more than a month after it ran aground on the East Coast, according to the US Coast Guard...

The global coronavirus caseload has topped 504.5 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 6.19 million and vaccinations to over 11.16 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University. ...

The Ukraine crisis could plunge more than one fifth of humanity, or up to 1.7 billion people, into poverty and hunger, according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres....

Two minors died and eight more people were injured after shots were fired at a house party in Pittsburgh, a major city in the US state of Pennsylvania early Sunday morning....

Two juveniles were killed and several others injured after a shooting in US's Pittsburgh, police said....