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Perseverance rover lands on Mars this week
The Mars 2020 mission, which set off late from Florida in late July, includes the largest ever vehicle to be dispatched to the Red Planet.
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Australia parliament rape scandal prompts PM apology
Brittany Higgins alleged she was sexually assaulted by a male colleague in now-Defence Minister Linda Reynolds' office in 2019.
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US Capitol riot probe planned as Trump's legal woes mount
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, called on Monday for the creation of a 9/11-style Commission to look into the 6 January attack on the US Capitol by Trump's supporters.
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US VP Harris and Macron talk COVID-19, climate change
Harris's office released a statement saying she had expressed her commitment 'to revitalising the transatlantic alliance.'
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World's biggest wealth fund makes push for more women on boards
Several countries, including Norway, France, Germany and the Netherlands, have imposed quotas to ensure that more women are represented on boards of directors.
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Kremlin 'interested' in Elon Musk-Putin conversation
Elon Musk, one of the world's richest people, on Sunday tagged the Kremlin's account on Twitter along with the invitation to President Vladimir Putin to talk on an audio chat app.
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Boris Johnson cautious on lockdown easing as new hotel regime starts
While eyeing a possible route out of lockdown, the government is also tightening the borders to guard against emerging variants of the coronavirus that could undermine the vaccination programme.
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ANALYSIS: Trump’s acquittal is a sign of ‘constitutional rot’ in the US
The vote to acquit former President Trump for inciting the attack on the Capitol is a symptom of the dramatic decline of the US constitutional system, which is being eroded from within.
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Biden calls on Congress to reform US gun laws
Joe Biden said he wants Congress to pass laws that would require background checks on all gun sales and ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
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UK rolls out hotel quarantine for 'high risk' country returnees
The new policy requires all UK citizens and permanent residents entering England from 33 countries on a wider travel ban list to self-isolate at their own expense in approved hotels for 10 days and take several Covid-19 tests.
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi to face court this week: lawyer
Army chief General Min Aung Hlaing has justified the 1 February coup by alleging widespread voter fraud in November's elections, which Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party swept.
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Tech giants 'close' to deals with Australian media
Australia is poised to adopt legislation that would force digital companies to pay for news content, something that would create a global precedent and, according to Facebook and Google, wreck the way the internet works.
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More protests after Myanmar junta cuts internet, deploys troops
Myanmar's junta deployed extra troops around the country and choked the internet on Monday as it intensified a crackdown on anti-coup protests.
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After Trump acquittal, Republicans see 'battle for soul of party'
Despite Trump's acquittal, Democrats insisted Sunday they had achieved a moral and political victory by securing some Republican votes in the Senate trial while permanently tarring Trump's name and clearing the way for President Joe Biden to quickly advance his agenda.
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New Zealand's largest city enters lockdown as variants from UK found
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ordered a three-day lockdown for almost two million Auckland residents from Monday, with schools and non-essential businesses forced to close.
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UK eyes next vaccine phase after hitting 15 million jabs target
Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed hitting the "significant milestone" just over two months after the country embarked on its biggest ever vaccination programme.
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First bodies recovered from Indian flood disaster tunnel
Scores were killed in Uttarakhand state when the deluge -- thought to have been triggered by a chunk of glacier sliding down a mountainside or a glacial lake breaching its banks -- swept down the Rishiganga valley in minutes, destroying roads, bridges and buildings.
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New Zealand orders largest city Auckland into snap COVID lockdown
The Pacific island nation has been widely praised for its handling of the pandemic, with just 25 deaths in a population of five million.
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Putin accuses West of using Navalny to 'contain' Russia
Putin suggested that the wave of protests recently held across Russia in the wake of Navalny's arrest and imprisonment had also been fed from abroad.
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Myanmar junta warns public not to hide fugitive protesters
Security forces have stepped up arrests of doctors and others joining a civil disobedience movement that has seen huge crowds throng streets across big urban centres and isolated villages in mountainous frontier communities.
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'Democracy is fragile,' Biden says after Trump acquittal
Donald Trump was acquitted Saturday on charges of inciting an insurrection at the US Capitol, after a majority of Senate Republicans closed ranks and refused to punish the former president in his historic second impeachment trial.
