Sri Lanka&s president and prime minister agreed to resign Saturday after protesters stormed both officials& homes and set fire to one of the buildings in a rage over the nation&s severe economic crisis.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he will leave office once a new government is in place, and hours later the speaker of...

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A new dinosaur species, with a large head and tiny arms, was discovered by paleontologists, who have now named the giant carnivorous dinosaur species Meraxes gigas.

According to the researchers& findings, published in Current Biology this week, the new species is similar to the Tyrannosaurus rex (T-rex).

The findings were obtained over a...

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Local sources in Nuristan province say that at least nine people died and nine others were injured as a result of floods in the province.

Local sources in Nuristan province said Wama district was worst hit by the floods, which resulted in heavy financial losses in addition to human casualties.

According to the sources, as a result of Saturday...

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Pakistanis are celebrating Eid ul-Adha Sunday despite a steady increase in COVID-19 cases across the country & mostly being attributed to the sub-variants of Omicron.

In addition to the virus, several parts of the country are also recovering from damaging rains this past week, Geo TV reported. 

In his Eid message to the nation, Prime...

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The World Health Organization on Thursday reported a 77 percent weekly increase in the number of lab-confirmed monkeypox cases, to more than 6,000 worldwide, and two more deaths in parts of Africa.

Most of the cases were reported in Europe and Africa, the WHO said. 

WHO said it counted 6,027 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox from 59...

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US President Joe Biden claimed in a Saturday Washington Post Op-Ed that the Middle East is more &stable and secure& than when he took office.

&The Middle East I&ll be visiting is more stable and secure than the one my administration inherited 18 months ago,& Biden wrote.

His comments come despite the decision to...

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