Little Richard, a Grammy Award winner and inductee to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, dies at the age of 87.

The eyes are a key route by which the novel coronavirus infects humans, a study by the University of Hong Kong has found, in addition to the upper respiratory tract, which includes the nose, mouth and throat.

At least 274,617 people have died of the novel coronavirus so far, according to an AFP tally at 1900 GMT yesterday.

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose sharply in April, government data showed on Friday, as the coronavirus outbreak keeps many environmental enforcers out of the field and the country prepares to deploy troops to fight illegal logging.

Angry protesters carrying dead bodies stormed an Indian chemical plant yesterday to demand the facility’s closure after a toxic gas leak that killed 12 people days earlier.

President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman spoke by phone on Friday and “reaffirmed the strong United States-Saudi defense partnership,” the White House said, amid tensions over Saudi’s oil output.

The United States has accused China and Russia of stepping up cooperation to spread false narratives over the coronavirus pandemic, saying Beijing was increasingly adopting techniques honed by Moscow.

Google and Facebook tell most employees to keep working from home for the rest of the year as part of a response by the tech giants to the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

The United States issues a new rule tightening visa guidelines for Chinese journalists, saying it was in response to the treatment of US journalists in China, a shift that comes amid tensions between the two nations over the coronavirus global pandemic.

EU states should guarantee vouchers for travel cancelled during the coronavirus pandemic and start lifting internal border restrictions in a bid to salvage some of the summer tourism season, the bloc’s executive will say next week.

Rival lawmakers scuffle in Hong Kong's legislature in a row over electing the chairman of a key committee, a fresh sign of rising political tension as the coronavirus pandemic eases in the Chinese-ruled city.

Thousands of migrants stranded “all over the world” are facing a heightened risk of Covid-19 infection, says António Vitorino, director general of International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN migration agency.

North Korea condemned the South yesterday for holding military drills, saying the situation was returning to before the diplomatic rapprochement

The woman who accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993 called on him to drop out of the US presidential race, saying Thursday

The US Justice Department withdrew its case against former White House national security advisor Michael Flynn Thursday, handing President Donald Trump a major political victory.

According to a global study on novel Coronavirus, temperature and latitude are not associated with the spread of COVID-19 disease that found public health measures, including school closures, social distancing and restrictions of large gatherings etc are having a positive effect on containing the virus.

Up to 190,000 people in Africa could die of coronavirus in the first year of the pandemic if containment measures fail, the World Health Organisation warned on Thursday.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 269,514 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last December, according to a tally from

A train in western India has ran over migrant workers sleeping on the tracks, killing at least 14 among a group of people returning to their villages, according to officials.

Major social advances have often emerged from the depths of disaster: the Black Death brought an end to serfdom, and Britain’s welfare state emerged from the ruins of World War II.