South Korean Defence Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo on Tuesday said that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's younger sister, Kim Yo-jong, seems to be in control of a key unit of Pyongyang's ruling Workers' Party. ....

China-based TikTok on Monday filed a lawsuit against the August 6 executive order by the Donald Trump government that prohibited the company to do any business in the US. ....

Twitter has slapped a public interest notice on a tweet by US President Donald Trump, saying it could potentially dissuade people from participation in voting. ....

An African-American man was shot multiple times by police in the US state of Wisconsin and was taken to a hospital in serious condition, according to media reports. ....

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said that the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic could be over within two years. ....

Pakistan's Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Aminul Haque has raised serious questions and reservations over the alleged "biased" policies of social media giant Facebook for Indian users in comparison to content from Pakistani users. ....

An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale jolted Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province on Friday, the meteorology and geophysics agency said, adding no tsunami alert was issued. ....

Armed with the Democratic Party's nomination, former US Vice President Joe Biden formally launched his battle against President Donald Trump in a "life-changing election", asserting that he would lead the nation out of "this season of darkness". ....

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Thursday left for a two-day visit to China to attend the second round of the China-Pakistan Foreign Ministers Strategic Dialogue. ....

California Senator Kamala Harris has formally accepted her nomination as the Democratic Party's Vice Presidential candidate, becoming the first woman of South Asian descent to be nominated to a major US party's presidential ticket. ....