Micro-blogging site Twitter has announced that it will handover the @POTUS (President of the United States) account to American President-elect Joe Biden after he is inaugurated on January 20, 2021, regardless of whether incumbent leader Donald Trump concedes before that. ....

Former US President Donald Trump's decision at his administration's sunset to pull back US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq is among his final attempts to keep his original campaign promise, but creates a policy vacuum and complicates the transition to Democrat Joe Biden in January. ....

China sets a good example for other countries of how to successfully contain the coronavirus pandemic, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. ....

An anti-terrorism court in Punjab province has awarded 10-year imprisonment to Jamat-ud-Dawa (JUD) chief Hafiz Saeed and other top leaders of the organisation in at least two cases related to terror-financing. ....

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is currently in London, made several unscheduled visits to the hospital this week after he developed acute pain in his kidney, a media report said on Thursday citing family sources. ....

Covid-19 vaccine being developed by British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca and Oxford University produced a strong immune response in older adults, raising hopes that it can protect the age groups most at risk from the virus. ....

As Americans exhausted by the deadly blow of coronavirus pin their hopes on new vaccines on the horizon, fresh data show that more than a million US children have tested positive for the virus, with the highest surge coinciding with the election week in the US. ....

India's Permanent Representative T.S. Tirumurti has called out Pakistan's "Pavlovian" response at the world body whenever India is mentioned, making it bring up its perceived grievances whatever matter is under discussion. ....

US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speaking first and leading into Joe Biden's remarks is slowly but surely becoming a signature one-two maneuver that could define our visual recall of the post-January 21, 2021 White House power duo. ....

For the second time in the span of 10 days after the US elections, there's a Covid gamechanger on the horizon with US pharma giant Moderna announcing on Monday that its vaccine has shown 94.5 per cent efficacy in preliminary data from the company's ongoing study. ....