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They were citing for their fight for freedom of expression. (Photo: Twitter/@NobelPrize)

Journalists from Philippines, Russia given Nobel Peace Prize

The winners were announced Friday by Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

8 Oct 2021 3:12 PM IST

Commission president Jean-Marc Sauve, left, hands copies of the report to Catholic Bishop Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, president of the Bishops Conference of France (CEF), during the publishing of a report by an independant commission into sexual abuse by church officials (Ciase), Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, in Paris. A major French report released Tuesday found that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within Frances Catholic Church over the past 70 years, in Frances first major reckoning with the devastating phenomenon. (AP)

330,000 children victims of church sex abuse: French report

About 80% of the victims were boys, as per the 2,500-page document prepared by an independent commission

5 Oct 2021 2:45 PM IST

Front from left, Franziska Giffey, top candidate of the SPD for Mayor of the German city of Berlin, Olaf Scholz, top candidate for chancellor of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), and Manuela Schwesig, member of the SPD and governor of the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, pose with flowers at the partys headquarter in Berlin, Germany. (Photo: AP)

Germany's Social Democrats win election but uncertainty beckons

Preliminary official results showed that the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) narrowly won the vote at 25.7 percent

27 Sept 2021 1:49 PM IST

People walk and drive past election posters of the three candidates for German chancellor , from right, Armin Laschet, Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Annalena Baerbock, German Green party (Die Gruenen) and Olaf Scholz, Social Democratic Party (SPD), at a street in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Germanys closely fought election on Sunday will set the direction of the European Unions most populous country after 16 years under Angela Merkel, whose party is scrambling to avoid defeat by its center-left rivals after a rollercoaster campaign. (AP)

Germans vote in close election to decide Merkel successor

Merkel has been in power since 2005 but plans to step down after the election, making the vote an era-changing event

26 Sept 2021 12:31 PM IST

Passengers enter the Delhi International Airport. (Photo: PTI/File)

Vaccine certification for travel must meet 'minimum criteria', says UK

Indian travellers to the UK will continue to be treated as non-vaccinated and therefore required to quarantine for 10...

23 Sept 2021 10:00 AM IST

A health worker prepares a dose of the Covishield vaccine against the Covid-19 coronavirus at a vaccination centre in Ahmedabad. (Photo: AFP)

UK adds Covishield to approved vaccines list in updated travel...

The move follows widespread condemnation of the SII-manufactured vaccines not being included in a list of eligible...

22 Sept 2021 2:30 PM IST

Bulgarias President Rumen Radev is seen on video screens as he addresses the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly remotely, Sept. 21, 2021 at U.N. headquarters. (Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

Racism, climate and divisions top UN agenda as leaders meet

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, more than two dozen world leaders appeared in person at the U.N....

22 Sept 2021 1:04 PM IST

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of World Health Organization (AFP)

WHO chief thanks India for resumption of COVID vaccine export

Ghebreyesus also said that the move will help WHO to reach its goal of 40 per cent vaccination in all countries by the...

22 Sept 2021 11:00 AM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson listens to apprentice Amy Gray during a visit to a British Gas training academy in Leicestershire, England, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021.(AP)

UK approves vaccines for 12-15s, aims to avoid lockdowns

The chief medical officers said Monday that vaccination would help limit transmission of the virus in schools

14 Sept 2021 3:09 AM IST

Mmilitary personnel work onboard the C-17 aircraft after landing at RAF Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, England, Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. (Photo: AP)

Britain looking carefully at suicides among Afghan veterans

Britain lost 457 armed forces personnel in Afghanistan, or 13 percent of the international military coalition's 3,500...

6 Sept 2021 2:40 PM IST

Amid ongoing fear of aftershocks, virtually the entire population of that city spent Saturday night outdoors, sleeping in front of their homes or what was left of them. (AFP)

Death toll in massive Haiti quake jumps to 724: govt

Churches, businesses, schools and homes crumbled in Saturday's quake that trapped hundreds of victims under

16 Aug 2021 3:19 AM IST

Municipal workers in personal protective equipment look on as passengers from United Kingdom arrive at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, in Mumbai (PTI)

UK eases travel restrictions for India

Passengers must take a COVID test three days before departure and book in advance for two COVID tests to be taken upon...

8 Aug 2021 1:44 PM IST