The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $27 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of George Floyd over his death in police custody, a case that stirred national protests over racial injustice and police brutality.

At least six protesters were killed by security forces in Myanmar, witnesses and media reported, as activists marked the death anniversary of a student whose killing in 1988 sparked an uprising against the military government.

The Biden administration is granting temporary deportation relief and work permits to Myanmar citizens living in the United States because of the military's crackdown here following the February 1 coup, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Friday.

The leaders of the United States and allies India, Australia and Japan have vowed to work together to restore democracy in Myanmar, where violence has escalated as coup leaders try to disrupt a sweeping movement of protests and civil disobedience.

The first online summit of leaders of the US, India, Japan and Australia agreed to a plan to pool their financial and logistical resources to ramp up the manufacturing of Covid-19 vaccines in India and distribution in the Indo-Pacific region.

China’s plans for electoral reform in Hong Kong, coupled with the imposition of a security law, amount to a “combination of punches” to quell unrest in the southern city, a top Beijing official said yesterday.

A person who has had Covid and receives a single dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines is equally or better protected than someone who never had Covid and got two doses, according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Embattled New York Governor Andrew Cuomo found himself under increasing risk of impeachment over allegations of sexual harassment Thursday when the Democratic head of the state assembly -- until now a key ally -- greenlighted a formal investigation of the claims.

More twins -- almost one in 40 children -- are being born than ever before, according to research published yesterday, citing the rapid rise in medically assisted reproduction as a major factor.

A digital collage by American artist Beeple sold Thursday for a record $69.3 million at Christie’s auctioneers, as virtual art rapidly establishes itself as a new -- and highly profitable -- creative genre.

Difficulty breathing, concentrating and even walking: five months after being diagnosed with Covid-19, Violaine Cousineau continues to suffer severe symptoms that prevent her from resuming normal life.

Millions of people around the world risk dying of hunger and the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change are increasing the threat, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said.

The United States, India, Japan and Australia have launched a joint drive to ramp up the Covid-19 vaccine supply in Asia, mounting a challenge to China in the first-ever summit of the four democracies.

India’s federal government conveyed to four northeastern Indian states sharing borders with Myanmar to keep a very strict watch on the entry of people from that country.

A total of 65 journalists and media workers were killed worldwide in 2020 while doing their jobs, according to the International Federation of Journalists.

Myanmar’s first satellite is being held on board the International Space Station following the Myanmar coup, while Japan’s space agency and a Japanese university decide what to do with it, two Japanese university officials said.

Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, who saw himself as the custodian of his people’s culture and was praised by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa as a “visionary monarch”, died aged 72.

A man who has admitted to taking part in the 2017 murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia gave his first detailed account of the plot on Thursday, telling a court how the anti-corruption journalist was tracked and killed.

Gunmen in Nigeria’s northwestern Kaduna state kidnapped a number of students from a college late on Thursday, a police spokesman and a state government official said today.

Myanmar junta crackdown on the civilians may comprise crimes against humanity, said UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, calling for a united global response in the country’s hour of need.