India's coronavirus death toll crosses 500,000
India's official death toll from Covid-19 passed 500,000 on Friday, although many experts believe the real figure is likely much higher.
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'Bless that woman': Hondurans look to tiny icon, and a new president, for hope
Thousands of Honduran believers descended on their country's most famous religious icon Thursday, praying for an end to the Catholic nation's crippling poverty and success for their newly elected leftist leader.
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Xi meets Putin as tensions rise with West
China's President Xi Jinping held his first face-to-face talks with a world leader in nearly two years on Friday, meeting Russia's Vladimir Putin who hailed "unprecedented" ties between the neighbours as tensions grow with the West.
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Ahead of Beijing Games, is China really 'a winter sport country'?
Beijing says it met and even exceeded its target to make more than 300 million Chinese people winter sports enthusiasts since it won the bid to host the Winter Olympics.
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Sri Lanka calls for diaspora investment on independence day
Sri Lanka marked its independence day on Friday with an appeal to its diaspora to send money home to overcome the island's worsening economic crisis and a pledge to protect foreign investments.
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Nicaragua court finds activists guilty of 'conspiracy'
A Nicaraguan court Thursday found two prominent opposition figures guilty of "conspiracy," according to a human rights organization which condemned the trial as "null and void" for taking place behind closed doors.
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Rohit to lead India into 1,000th ODI
India's new white-ball skipper Rohit Sharma starts his full-time ODI tenure on Sunday as his team play the West Indies in their 1,000th one-day international, the first side ever to reach the milestone.
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Hong Kong activist arrested ahead of planned Olympics protest
A veteran Hong Kong activist was arrested for "incitement to subversion" on Friday ahead of a planned protest against Beijing's hosting of the Winter Olympics, hours before the opening ceremony was due to kick off.
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Asian markets up as Hong Kong returns with rally, eyes on US jobs
Asian markets rose Friday as a surge in Hong Kong on its first day back from a break helped overcome a sharp drop on Wall Street, though a surprisingly hawkish tilt from the European Central Bank added fuel to fears about the removal of pandemic-era stimulus.
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Canada's Parrot ready to fly at Beijing Games after cancer comeback
Canadian snowboarder Max Parrot said that chemotherapy left him "at zero percent" when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2018 -- now he is going for gold at the Beijing Olympics.
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