Canada proposes a global alliance to tackle the challenges in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.

The coronavirus outbreak risks sparking a major global mental health crisis, the United Nations warns, calling for urgent action to address the psychological suffering brought on by the pandemic.

The world economy is projected to shrink by 3.2 per cent in 2020 after the coronavirus pandemic sharply restri­cted economic activity, increased uncertainty and sparked the worst recession since the depression, the United Nations says.

The new coronavirus may never go away and populations around the world will have to learn to live with it, the World Health Organization warns.

A 113-year-old woman, believed to be the oldest person living in Spain, has beaten the coronavirus at a retirement home where several other residents died from the disease, the residence said Tuesday.

Over 300 lawmakers from around the world yesterday urged the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to cancel the debt of the poorest countries in response to the coronavirus pandemic, and to boost funding to avert a global economic meltdown.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 292,316 people, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University at 1300 GMT. At least 4,117,740 cases of

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Israel yesterday for talks with leaders on plans to annex swathes of the occupied West Bank, which has been rocked by two days of deadly violence.

A day after India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the country to be self-reliant, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman yesterday announced a slew of measures to help businesses, including micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), recover from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

Twitter Inc becomes the first major tech company to allow employees who can work remotely to do so indefinitely, as the coronavirus outbreak forces unprecedented changes in work culture across the world.

Brazil has deployed thousands of soldiers to protect the Amazon rainforest, taking precautions to avoid spreading the novel coronavirus, as the

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 286,122 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official

Gunmen stormed a maternity hospital in the Afghan capital yesterday, killing at least 14 people -- including newborns and nurses -- as a suicide blast at a funeral in the country’s restive east left two dozen mourners dead.

The Israeli army suffered its first fatality this year yesterday when a Palestinian stonethrower killed a soldier in the occupied West Bank, a day before US-Israeli talks on annexation.

The US Supreme Court takes up Tuesday the most politically charged case of the year -- President Donald Trump’s refusal to turn over his tax returns and financial records to Congress and a New York prosecutor, a case that may define the limits of presidential immunity.

Wuhan plans to conduct coronavirus tests on the Chinese city’s entire population after six new cases emerged for the first time in weeks in the cradle of the global pandemic, state media reported yesterday.

US President Donald Trump abruptly ended his coronavirus press briefing on Monday after getting into a testy exchange with an Asian-American

The UN Security Council will hold a videoconference to discuss the escalation of violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state and the effect of the coronavirus

A newly erected billboard in New York's Times Square shows the number of US coronavirus deaths that its creator says could have been avoided if President Donald Trump had acted sooner -- and it's called the "Trump Death Clock."

The World Health Organization says that some treatments appear to be limiting the severity or length of the Covid-19 disease and that it was focusing on learning more about four or five of the most promising ones.