More than 300mn people in Asia, Africa and Latin America are at risk of life-threatening diseases like cholera and typhoid due to the increasing pollution of water in rivers and lakes, says the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

The Egyptian authorities and International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff have struck a deal. If the IMF board agrees next month, Egypt will receive a $12bn loan to support the implementation of economic reforms.

The growing use of e-cigarettes, being touted as safer alternative to their paper-rolled peers, has become an alarming public health concern across the world.

The human impact on Earth’s chemistry and climate has cut short the 11,700-year-old geological epoch known as the Holocene and ushered in a new one, according to scientists.

China has lately been facing harsh criticism for the direction of its reforms of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), particularly its strengthening of the role of Communist Party committees in their management.

The just-concluded two-match Twenty20 series between India and world champions West Indies in the United States was unique, and futuristic, in many ways.

Lucy, an ancient ape-like human relative, met a brutal end when she plummeted from a tall tree, new analysis of the famous fossil suggested yesterday – offering a solution to a decades-old mystery.

I don’t know how to tell an employee that she won’t be receiving an expected promotion. “Greta” will willingly take on any task but pays no attention to details.

You don’t have to be best friends, just be civil.

Do you have a friend who seems “needy” for lots of attention?

Norwegian researchers have developed a novel activity tracker that uses heart rate data to customise the amount of exercise one needs to reduce the risk of death from cardiovascular disease.

As Bob Dylan famously alluded, The Times They Are A- Changin’. The one political party in Pakistan - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) - that was long given up by all stakeholders as being ever amenable to change ....