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A Maersk oil tanker has been anchored off the coast of Malta for two weeks after rescuing 27 migrants, including a child and a pregnant woman, with authorities in Malta and Tunisia denying the vessel entry, the company said on Wednesday.

The private wildcat zoo at the center of the hit Netflix series "Tiger King" is closing its doors permanently, its owner said, citing pressure from animal rights activists and inspectors.

Belarusian activist Veronika Tsepkalo plans to meet opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Lithuania to discuss their next steps towards ousting President Alexander Lukashenko, but she indicated she would not return to her country soon.

The assistant, Arun Kumar, had allegedly instigated the mob against sitting MLA R Akhanda Srinivasa Murthy and his sister who were the prime target of the vandals during the violence on August 11, said police sources.

The institute had in June asked all students, who got stranded because of lockdown, to leave the campus by June 30 and return two months later for the next semester, but a few of them remained there.

The Gorakhpur doctor was arrested on January 29 for an alleged provocative speech against the Citizenship Amendment Act at Aligarh Muslim University in December last year.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Oracle Corp is a good company and could take over popular Chineseowned social media app TikTok in the United States, after he issued an order mandating its sale in 90 days.

Nath is also the MPCC chief, a post he assumed in May 2018 ahead of Assembly elections and remained so even after becoming chief minister for 15 months.

A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde said the allegations of bias made by the petitioner against the members of the Commission merely on the basis of newspaper reports and are liable to be rejected outright.

Companies mining gold in Mali said they were operating as usual while monitoring a political crisis that caused the country's borders to shut and hit their share prices on Wednesday.

Conducted by CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology and CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, the study said individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 shed virus not only through nasal and oral routes but also through faeces.

Singh said multiple recruitment examinations are a burden on candidates, as well as on the respective recruitment agencies, involving avoidable or repetitive expenditure, law and order issues and venue-related problems.

A former oil industry attorney will continue calling the shots for a government agency that oversees nearly a quarterbillion public acres in the U.S. West, despite the White House saying over the weekend that President Donald Trump would withdraw the nomi...

European shares gained ground on Wednesday as a record high on Wall Street outweighed simmering worries over a resurgence in coronavirus cases that could undermine a nascent recovery.

Lufthansa said it had reached an agreement with pilots on Wednesday over a package of shortterm measures to cut costs as the German airline battles to reduce losses due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Many Congress leaders feel the party is missing the mark by focusing all its energy on the alleged BJP-Facebook nexus, instead of cornering the Modi government on unemployment and economy.