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Extreme levels of rainfall and landslides have killed at least 21 people in Vietnam as a result of Typhoon Molave. Many are missing in Thursday’s crash. The Disaster Management Department says 53 people are missing after...

The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs has published a gazette providing for the use of the word ‘Bir’ before the names of all freedom fighters of 1971. The gazette was signed by Deputy Secretary of the...

Spain has declared a national state of emergency and imposed a night-time curfew in an effort to help control a new spike in Covid-19 infections. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the curfew, which came into force...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has won a landslide victory in the country’s general election. With most ballots tallied, Ms Ardern’s centre-left Labour Party has won 49% of the vote and she is projected to...

The virus responsible for Covid-19 can remain infectious on surfaces such as banknotes, phone screens and stainless steel for 28 days, researchers say. The findings from Australia’s national science agency suggest SARS-Cov-2 can survive for far...

Finland is often cited as an example of gender equality. Prime Minister Sanna Marin has taken one step further in the fight for gender equality, allowing a 16-year-old girl to serve as prime minister for a...

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize from the Norwegian capital Oslo on Friday. The...

American poet Louise Gluck got the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday. Gluck is known for themes of childhood and family life that draw inspiration from myths and classical motifs. 77 years old Gluck, was honored “for...

France scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and US scientist Jennifer Doudna won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for the gene-editing system known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping “scissors”. With this, for the first time, a Nobel science prize has...

The Nobel jury said Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany, and Andrea Ghez of the United States had won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their research on black holes. The Nobel...