International

The World Health Organization has declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concern, after an emergency committee reconvened Thursday in Geneva.

The people of Quebec’s Gaspé region in Canada found out an interesting way of exchanging their large currency to smaller ones and happily using them as new currency.

The persons who work without a legal permit to work in England and Wales are to be brought within further statutory measures.

Indian Supreme Court turned down Delhi High Courts’ ruling which decriminalized sexual relation between persons belonging to same-sex. The issue raised on Section 377 (unnatural offenses) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which makes gay sex a criminal offense entailing punishment up to life term.

Uruguay has become the first nation to legalize the growing, sale, and smoking of marijuana after the country's Senate gave its final approval by 16 of 29 votes in favour of the legislation.

Four convicts in the December 16 Delhi gang-rape case were on Friday awarded the death penalty by a Delhi court which said the gravity of the offence cannot be tolerated.

A Delhi court pronounced guilty verdict to all four accused on the case of gang rape of a young girl in a moving bus who later died in a hospital.

An unexpected and shameful incident occurred in a courtroom in Mexico when a judge punched two fellow justices during a court session. This courtroom incident and its follow-ups are said to have shattered the reputation of Mexican legal system.