Gulf News

Child care demands at home skyrocketed during the pandemic, but men and women did not split the burden equally.Globally, women took on 173...

TOKYO: An American father-son duo accused of helping former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn jump bail and flee Japan admitted their role in the a...

Madrid: Authorities in Mallorca are investigating a coronavirus outbreak involving more than 600 students celebrating the end of term in th...

New Delhi: India recorded 60,753 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours and the daily positivity rate has dropped to 2.98 per cent, the Un...

New Delhi: Seeking to move on from the controversy over a Supreme Court appointed panel report on Delhi's oxygen demand, Chief Minister Arv...

Brazil hit the grim mark of half a million COVID-19 deaths Saturday, a toll second only to the US that shows few signs of easing. Yet resid...

Washington: A group of Indian youngsters from across America, facing imminent prospects of deportation, has met senior Biden administration...

“Child Labour: Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward” is released ahead of World Day Against Child Labour on June 12. The repo...

Warsaw: The endangered Sumatran Titan arum, a giant foul-smelling blossom also known as the corpse flower, went into a rare, short bloom at...

Chinese officials are planning to ease birth restrictions further and are considering possibly doing away with all of them by 2025, Dow Jon...

Sydney: Sydney was battling a fresh COVID-19 cluster on Tuesday just as Melbourne's latest outbreak receded, highlighting Australia's diffi...

Karachi: Conceding that 60 million people of Pakistan are without electricity, the chief of National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (N...

A mother of four children is on trial in France for killing her husband after decades of sexual, physical and psychological abuse starting...

London: Britain's government said Sunday it was investigating how secret defence documents, outlining the movements of a warship that led t...

Hyderabad: An astrologer in Hyderabad who lodged a complaint with the police saying ‘several valuable gemstones’ were stolen from his house...

MOSCOW: The leaders of Russia and China on Monday hailed increasingly close ties between their countries and announced the extension of a 2...

New Delhi: The Twenty20 World Cup will be moved to the United Arab Emirates from India due to the coronavirus pandemic, the country's crick...

London: A third shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine produces a strong immune response, researchers said on Monday, adding there...

Ahmedabad (Gujarat): As the centralised free vaccination policy began on Monday under which the Government of India will provide free COVID...

Thiruvananthapuram: The death of Vismaya V. Nair, a final year student of Ayurvedic medicine, who was found hanging at her in-law's home in...

BEIJING: China said on Wednesday that there had been no leak at the Taishan nuclear power station and it had not raised the allowed radiati...

Moscow: Coronavirus infections continue to soar in Russia, with the authorities reporting 20,182 new cases on Thursday and 568 further deat...

Islamabad: The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC), in view of a significant drop in daily cases of COVID-19 as well as deaths in...

World champion Julian Alaphilippe won the crash-marred opening stage of the Tour de France to snatch the race leader’s yellow jersey on Sat...

Gommenec’h, France: When 80-year-old Xavier Bouget goes for a ride on his bicycle, tinkers in his workshop, waters his garden or sits down...