The US company agrees to supply the Covid jabs as Australia struggles with its vaccination drive.

Cardiff's Peter Kirkwood and fellow Brit Richard Phillips died climbing Taranaki Maunga in New Zealand.

The Taliban have stepped up attacks on government forces, with US troops set to withdraw.

Sule Square sits on land owned by the country's military, according to a United Nations report.

The officer involved is allegedly the director of Hong Kong's National Security Department.

The landlocked country, which relies on India for medical supplies, is seeing a dramatic rise in cases.

The BBC's Vikas Pandey has called Delhi home for more than a decade - but Covid has changed everything.

The coalition's new budget boosts women's health and childcare, but critics say wider reforms are needed.

A further 50 corpses are found on embankments, this time in Uttar Pradesh, as India battles Covid.

The teenager and two younger children were sleeping in the industrial bin in Port Lincoln.

A refugee group claims the tunnel was close to breaching the site's outer perimeter.

The results add pressure on Beijing to boost measures for couples to have more babies.

Shares in Meituan slumped after its boss reportedly shared, then deleted, a Tang dynasty poem.

The WHO says the B.1.617 mutation spreads more easily than other variants and requires further study.

Five journalists and activists who fled Myanmar's violence are on trial for illegally entering Thailand.

As its neighbour succumbs to a devastating Covid crisis, fears rise in Pakistan in the run up to Eid.

The case sought damages from firms that produced the notorious defoliant used in the Vietnam War.

Two young girls and their asylum seeker parents remain in detention despite years of campaigning.

It is not clear where the bodies came from, but local media suggest they may be Covid-19 victims.

Naomi Osaka says she is "not really sure" the Olympics should go ahead this summer amid rising Covid-19 cases in Tokyo.