Amid a flood of government spending, the global downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic will not be as bad as originally feared, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said yesterday, but she warned that the crisis is far from over as coronavirus cases surge again around the world.

The incumbent, Mike Pence, and the California senator Kamala Harris are set to take part in a vice-presidential debate in Salt Lake City, Utah, today with both under pressure to show their readiness to step up to the top job.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has visited Japan to rally support from Washington’s closest allies in Asia, calling for deeper collaboration with Japan, India and Australia as a bulwark against China’s growing regional influence.

US President Donald Trump has said Americans were learning to live with Covid-19, a day after returning from hospital to the White House where he will receive intensive treatment for coronavirus unavailable to most people.

A vaccine against Covid-19 may be ready by year-end, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said, without elaborating.

Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and Andrea Ghez of the US won the Nobel Physics Prize today for their research into black holes, the Nobel jury say.

Bangladesh and the USA are likely to hold a senior level conversation to discuss telecommunications security as they move towards further expanding 4G connectivity and developing 5G networks and services.

US President Donald Trump told Americans “to get out there” and not fear Covid-19 as he returned to the White House on Monday after a three-night hospital stay to be treated for the virus and removed his white surgical mask to pose for pictures.

US President Donald Trump has said he felt "really good" and will leave a military hospital where he is being treated for Covid-19 later on Monday, despite a wave of infections that have hit his White House four weeks before the US election.

Armenia and Azerbaijan yesterday accused each other of attacking civilian areas on the ninth day of the deadliest fighting in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 years.

The WHO estimated yesterday that 10 percent of the world has been infected by the new coronavirus -- way more than has been recorded -- as it mulled speeding up internal reforms.

A case was registered yesterday against Pakistan PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and other party leaders at the Shahdara Police Station in Lahore for ‘conspiring’ against the country and state institutions.

While Donald Trump is intent on getting his recent Supreme Court nominee confirmed before the November 3 presidential election, the eruption of Covid-19 into the Senate and the innermost circles of the White House has complicated the calendar.

BJP leader Manish Shukla was shot dead on Sunday evening, about 20 km from north Kolkata, when he was speaking with some locals and party workers near a local police station.

Wildfires have destroyed up to 50 homes in New Zealand, authorities announced yesterday, saying it was a miracle no one was hurt as “a wall of orange” razed most of a remote South Island village.

A suicide attack targeting an Afghan provincial governor killed at least eight people yesterday, officials said, as the president travelled to Qatar where peace talks with the Taliban have stalled.

The UN refugee chief yesterday lambasted countries which close their doors to desperate migrants and Europe’s “shameful” refusal to allow migrants stranded at sea to disembark quickly.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign strove on Sunday to keep its focus on the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, as President Donald Trump received treatment for Covid-19 at a military hospital.

US President Donald Trump has begun a fourth day of treatment for Covid-19 at a military hospital outside Washington, with the severity of his illness unclear barely four weeks before Americans go to the polls to decide whether to reelect him.

China told a World Trade Organization meeting that restrictions by the United States on Chinese mobile applications TikTok and WeChat are in violation of the body’s rules, a trade official has said.