Israel announced a plan for thousands of new Jewish settlement homes in the occupied West Bank yesterday as Washington voiced readiness to

Last month tied 2016 for the hottest April on record worldwide, with particularly high temperatures over western Europe and north-central Asia,

At least 257,687 people have died of the novel coronavirus since the epidemic surfaced in China late last year, according to an AFP tally at 1100 GMT yesterday based on official sources.

Germany yesterday unveiled a plan for reopening, as Europe’s largest economy tries to get the wheels turning after weeks of shutdown, as the deadly coronavirus continued to wreak havoc in the United States with a spike in the daily death toll.

China yesterday hit back at US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his claims that the coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, saying he “doesn’t have any” evidence.

High school senior students study with plastic partitions in a classroom in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province yesterday. Senior school

A top commander of a banned terrorist outfit, who was on the run for eight years, was killed in an “encounter” with security forces in his native village in Kashmir’s Pulwama district, officials say.

In the steepest spike witnessed so far, India has recorded 195 deaths, 3,900 cases of Coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking total fatalities to 1,568 and number of infections to 46,433, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Britain's death toll from the coronavirus has topped 32,000, according to an updated official count released on Tuesday, pushing the country past Italy to become the second-most impacted after the United States.

The New York Times picked up the most awards as the 2020 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced virtually on Monday owing to the coronavirus outbreak.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 251,512 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last December, according to a tally from

Scientists created a monoclonal antibody that can defeat the new coronavirus in the lab, an early but promising step in efforts to find treatments and curb the pandemic’s spread.

Colson Whitehead became the rare author to receive Pulitzers for consecutive books when his novel about a brutal Florida reform school during the Jim Crow era, “The Nickel Boys,” was awarded the fiction prize Monday. Three years ago, he won for his Civil War era novel “The Underground Railroad.”

A new forecast projects nearly 135,000 deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States through the beginning of August mainly due to reopening measures under way, says the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

The World Health Organization says that Washington has provided no evidence to support "speculative" claims by the US president that the new coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab.

The Taliban yesterday claimed responsibility for a truck bomb in southern Helmand province that killed at least five Afghan security force

The acting top US diplomat for South Asia announced her retirement Sunday, as President Donald Trump looks increasingly likely to go a full

More than 3.5 million cases of the novel coronavirus have been recorded in the world since the epidemic surfaced in China in December,

Millions of Europeans emerged with relief from coronavirus confinement yesterday, with hard-hit Italy leading the way out of the world’s longest lockdown.

The Chinese government intentionally concealed the severity of the coronavirus from the international community while it stockpiled imports and decreased exports, a Department of Homeland Security report found, according to an administration official familiar with the report.