Los Angeles, Musician Ryan Adams has apologised to the women, including his former wife Mandy Moore, who accused him of emotional abuse and sexual misconduct over a year ago.

"There are no words to express how bad I feel about the ways I've mistreated people throughout my life and career," Adams wrot

Kathmandu, The ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has postponed its Standing Committee meeting till Monday in an attempt to reconcile differences among party co-chairs, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal and senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal.

The rival faction of the NCP has demanded Oli's resi

Seoul, North Korea's main newspaper on Sunday made an appeal to carry out leader Kim Jong-un's order that the country exercise "maximum alert" against the coronavirus pandemic.

Kim issued the order during a politburo meeting on June 2, warning that premature easing of anti-virus measures will lea

Hong Kong, Hong Kong libraries have taken at least nine titles written by localist or democracy advocates out of circulation pending a review of whether the books run afoul of the new national security law imposed in the city by China, a media report said on Sunday.

The Leisure and Cultural Services Department, wh

Dubai, After 110 days, the Guru Nanak Darbar Gurudwara in Dubai has re-opened following the lifting of the suspension of places of worship in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mosques nationwide and Dubai's sole Hindu temple had already re-opened last week after being closed sin

Bangkok,  The US' Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville will not be required to quarantine under the anti-coronavirus pandemic measures in Thailand during his two-day visit next week, said a senior government official.

Gen. McConville is scheduled to visit Thailand on July 9 and will meet Thai army ch

Washington, US President Donald Trump has used his Independence Day speech to tout the country's "progress" against the COVID-19 pandemic, despite a nationwide spike in cases and vowed to defeat the "radical left, the Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters".

"We are now i

Tokyo, Fifteen people have died, while nine others were reported missing in Japan's southern island of Kyushu as devastating rains have caused flooding and landslides, its was reported on Sunday.

Fourteen victims were found in a flooded nursing home in Kumamoto, while the other was pulled from a landslide, sai

Barcelona, The government in Spain's Catalonia region has re-imposed coronavirus controls on an area of 210,000 people after a sharp rise in infections, the media reported on Sunday.

On Saturday, President Quim Torra said no-one would be allowed to enter or leave Segria, an agricultural area west of Barcelona

Kiev, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been accused by his predecessor, Petro Poroshenkoy, of pursuing him in the courts out of a desire for "revenge".

When asked about election posters that were used by his campaign during last year's election, suggesting that a vote for Zelensky was effec