A media outlet late on Saturday released images of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi while in the custody of the authorities in the Caribbean nation of Dominica, where the billionaire mysteriously surfaced this week after going missing from Antigua and Barbuda, his home for the last three years. ....

In yet another act of brutality, a 16-year-old teenage boy was gang raped Pakistan's Dera Ismail Khan city by at least five people, who also filmed and uploaded the video of the incident on social media. ....

An Indian-origin man, who saved at least one person in a California mass shooting, was among the nine people killed by a railway worker who killed himself in San Jose, according to officials. ....

Nearly 1,15,000 health and care workers have died due to Covid since the pandemic began last year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday, hailing their sacrifice and asserting the need to protect and invest in healthcare workforce as a matter of urgency. ....

US' top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has said he is "not convinced" Covid-19 developed naturally, and has called for an open investigation into China to unravel the virus' origins, the media reported. ....

The 7-day average of new Covid-19 infections was about 29,100 as of Thursday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, marking the first time the average was below 30,000 since June 22, 2020. ....

Pakistan's coronavirus death toll crossed 20,000 on Friday as authorities struggle to contain a third wave of the pandemic that has battered the South Asian nation. ....

In a first, the UK has launched a new clinical trial that will assess the efficacy of a third 'booster' dose of seven different Covid-19 vaccines on patients' immune responses, the media reported. ....

Israel on Thursday announced a cease-fire in the bruising 11-day war against Hamas militants that caused widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip and brought life in much of Israel to a standstill. ....

US President Joe Biden on Thursday afternoon signed a legislation to curb anti-Asian hate crimes that have skyrocketed during the Covid-19 pandemic in the US. ....