Hong Kong (CNN)The first woman assigned to work on China’s new space station will be aboard when the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft blasts off early Saturday local time, in what’s... Read more
Lebanon has announced a day of mourning for Friday after at least six people died and dozens were hurt in deadly fighting in Beirut. Gunfire broke out during a protest by Shia Muslim groups... Read more
A fire in a residential building in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung has killed at least 46 people and injured another 41, according to officials. The blaze in the 13-floor building... Read more
Last month, Myanmar soldiers gunned down Cung Biak Hum, a 31-year-old Baptist pastor, while he rushed to help put out a fire caused by military shelling. As his town of Thantlang in Myanmar’... Read more
India has withdrawn mandatory quarantine for all UK nationals arriving in the country. Starting Wednesday, British citizens, who are fully vaccinated against Covid, will no longer have to un... Read more
Five people have been killed and two more injured in Norway after a man used a bow and arrow to attack them. Police first received word of an attack in the town of Kongsberg, south-west of t... Read more
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates medical products in the US, has approved an e-cigarette for sale for the first time. It authorised the marketing of three products fro... Read more
The US has said it will reopen its borders with Mexico and Canada to fully vaccinated travellers from November. In a statement, its Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it will allow t... Read more
US officials are investigating possible cases of Havana syndrome illness in Colombia, days before a visit by the Secretary of State, US media say. US embassy staff in Bogota may have been in... Read more
Governor Greg Abbott has issued an executive order banning all entities, including private companies, from enforcing vaccinations in Texas. Mr Abbott, a Republican, has been one of the most... Read more
Alexandrina Denysenko, a senior flight attendant with seven years of experience, says she sometimes does not get a spare minute to sit down during a flight and dreams of resting her swollen... Read more
Alexander Schallenberg has taken over as the chancellor of Austria, with the government seeking to move on from a corruption scandal. The foreign minister was sworn in on Monday after his pr... Read more
A spokesperson for the Lebanese Army told Al Jazeera on Monday that the fuel tank contained benzene. At least 25 fire trucks are at the oil facility, with firefighters trying to put out the... Read more
Islamabad, Pakistan – A journalist has been killed in a targeted attack in the southern Pakistani town of Hub, police officials say, with the ethnic separatist Baloch Liberation Army (B... Read more
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