Both the 60-year-old Obama and his wife Michelle Obama are fully vaccinated and boosted, the former president said. Obama said his diagnosis is "a reminder to get vaccinated if you haven't a...

Ukraine hasn’t allowed Vladimir Putin more than a bloody-nosed nibble, as I write, but the Russian despot has swiftly won himself a chunky fandom in India. Putin’s vandalism has stirred vi...

What would you tell the young people in Kolkata who want to make a difference to climate change but don’t know where and how to start? To address climate change, we certainly need new technolog...

Some traditions are more colourful than others. A top guy swearing for all the world to hear is one of those. The top guys being American presidents, right down to Joe Biden. But Mr Biden seems to be ...

It was Barack Obama’s favourite toy. Now it is effectively dead. Last week, Blackberry announced that it would stop supporting services on its once wildly popular mobile phones. It is the final ...

A free press is a cornerstone of a true democracy. But journalists can hold governments accountable only if someone with access to details of wrongdoing takes risks to share that information. Yet a Br...

When Adele let her voice loose the last time in 2015, US President Barack Obama was still in the swing of things while streaming culture had just left the launch pad. The past six years have changed t...

Former US President Barack Obama lambasted those who would play politics to avoid acting on climate change, calling out Russia and China in the same breath as Republican politicians back home. &ldquo...

In an irony of sorts, the Taliban, which had sheltered the leadership of al Qaida and were in power when the United States of America was struck by terror attacks on September 11, 2001, came back to p...

US troops guarding the evacuation effort from Afghanistan at Kabul airport fired some shots in the air overnight to control crowds, but there were no indications of casualties or injuries, Pentagon sp...