Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has won the first of two confidence votes at the Lower House of Parliament by 321 in favour, 259 against and 27 abstaining. ....

The Capitol area of Washington hunkering down under a pall of fear was put in a lockdown on Monday when a fire broke out in a camp of homeless people near the site of Wednesday's inauguration of Joe Biden as President and Kamala Harris as Vice President. ....

"Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last," the US Vice President-elect's mother Shyamala Harris told her once, says this revelatory and inspiring biography of the female icon of the moment, to be released on the day she takes office on January 20. ....

Another 38,598 people in Britain have tested positive for Covid-19, the lowest daily increase since the start of the year, according to official figures released on Sunday. ....

A massive 6.2 earthquake that jolted Indonesia's West Sulawesi province has so far left 42 people dead, over 800 others injured and some 15,000 displaced, while it also destroyed houses and infrastructures, a disaster official said here on Saturday. ....

India has the world's largest diaspora with about 18 million people born there now living abroad, according to John Wilmoth, the director of India has world's largest diaspora: United Nations' Population Division at the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. ....

US President Donald Trump will leave Washington, D.C. on the morning of January 20 shortly before President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, with a grand ceremony being planned for his departure, according to media reports. ....

US President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration rehearsal which was to take place on Sunday has been postponed due to security concerns, according to a news report. ....

The US House of Representatives has impeached President Donald Trump for "incitement of insurrection" at last week's Capitol riot. ....

The stage has been set for the second impeachment of US President Donald Trump after Vice President Mike Pence refused take over as president by ousting him in what would amount to a constitutionally sanctioned coup and the House of Representatives passed a resolution demanding him to act. ....