Chennai: The Customs department on Monday said its officials recovered USD 18,600 from a Dubai bound person who allegedly tried to smuggle the US currency.

London: A UK court on Monday rejected the latest bail plea of fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi, who has been lodged in a London prison since his arrest on an extradition warrant in March last year.

Melbourne: BCCI President Sourav Ganguly strongly feels that Indian cricketers should be accompanied by their families for the upcoming tour of Australia as a lot of them have been alone in an IPL bio-bubble for nearly 80 days.

The head of the United Nations said on Sunday that the COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest crisis of our age".

 Lee Kun-Hee, the ailing Samsung Electronics chairman who transformed the small television maker into a global giant of consumer electronics, has died. He was 78.

 A US Navy aircraft crashed Friday in an Alabama residential neighbourhood near the Gulf Coast, authorities said. Officials did not immediately release information about possible fatalities, but said no one on the ground was hurt.

Washington: US President Donald Trump and his challenger Joe Biden clashed over COVID-19, immigration, racism, and climate change during their final presidential debate, with both candidates unveiling their sharply divergent visions for the country over the next four years.

Beijing: Air India will operate its flight to Wuhan on October 30, the first after the central Chinese city from where the coronavirus initially emerged in December was officially declared safe from the virus in June and all curbs were lifted.