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The BOP is a very heavy metal cover weighing several tonnes that is placed at the mouth of any gas or oil well to stop leakage of the fuel from under the ground.

Indonesian troops fatally shot a separatist leader in ongoing clashes between security forces and a rebel group near the worlds largest gold mine in Indonesias easternmost Papua region, police and rebels said Monday.

European Union leaders will send a message of solidarity to Belarusian protesters and will tell Russia not to meddle in the former Soviet republic when they hold an emergency video conference on the crisis on Wednesday, EU officials said.

A total of 3,00,41,400 samples have been tested until August 16 with 7,31,697 samples being tested on Sunday, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said.

Shares crept back toward recent peaks on Monday as Chinese markets swung higher, while investors waited to see if a recent selloff in longerdated U.S. Treasuries would be extended and perhaps take some pressure off the dollar.

The RFC Girls Football Academy promises to provide the student-athletes with scientific training, along with an academic environment.

Sonu Sood recently decided to help Indian medicos stranded in Guyana.

The Moto E7 Plus could become the first phone to rock Qualcomm's Snapdragon 460 SoC.

FBI agents on Monday arrested Puerto Rico Rep. Mara Milagros Charbonier and three other people, a spokesman for the prostatehood New Progressive Party said Sunday.

The Congress demand came after a report in US newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, stated that Facebook had bent over backwards to favour the BJP – even going to the extent of ignoring hate speech by party leaders.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe underwent a medical checkup in hospital on Monday, a government source said, amid concern voiced by a top official that the premier could be suffering fatigue from handling the coronavirus pandemic.

The deafening cheer for Anon Nampa at Thailand's biggest demonstration in years underlined the bookish human rights lawyer's emergence at the forefront of a youth protest movement with his taboobreaking call for reforms to the monarchy.

The top court said it would like to hear arguments from the lawyers as to what should be the process which should be followed in contempt cases where allegations are being levelled against judges.

Streetcars ground to a halt and some stores closed in the Hague after a power outage hit large parts of the Dutch city Monday.

Two teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) are currently stationed in the western Maharashtra district to tackle any situation, they said.

The U.S. state of Iowa is seeking about $4 billion in disaster relief after a storm packing hurricaneforce winds tore across the Midwest last Monday, Governor Kim Reynolds said.