North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has carried out a major reshuffle of his State Affairs Commission, official media reported

Europe’s coast guard agency said Sunday it was looking for a dinghy believed to be carrying dozens of migrants when it went

The US special envoy who negotiated a deal with the Taliban said yesterday that an initial prisoner exchange between the insurgents

Key industries are warning of social unrest unless India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes concessions when he announces any extension Tuesday to a three-week pandemic-lockdown for the country’s 1.3 billion people.

In a bid to widen testing and ensure that no significant number of Covid-19 cases are being left out, the government plans to expand testing in clusters chosen in ‘cold spots’ or areas where there are no cases reported as of now.

Spain reopens parts of its economy, with some factory and construction staff returning to work within strict safety guidelines. But Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez warns his country is “far from victory”, and lockdown restrictions in place since March 14 remain in place for much of the nation’s 47 million people.

Police in Lima on Sunday arrested a Chinese citizen for illegally conducting rapid Covid-19 tests on the public with newly-delivered kits stolen from Peru's health ministry.

Top oil-producing countries agreed on "historic" output cuts to prop up prices hammered by the coronavirus crisis and a Russia-Saudi price war, sending crude prices soaring on Monday.

Sri Lanka’s Roman Catholic Church yesterday said it had forgiven the suicide bombers behind the attacks that killed at least 279

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fathered two children with one of his lawyers while holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London for

China is stepping up scrutiny of inbound foreigners and tightening border control after the number of single-day imported coronavirus cases set a record, helping double the daily number of newly detected infections.

At least 20,608 people in the United States have died, making the US the hardest-hit country. It also has the highest number of reported infections (530,006), according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University.

Liver patient Shahjahan’s family feared the worst when a New Delhi public hospital told her to leave because her bed was needed in a coronavirus unit.

The Taliban yesterday said it was set to release 20 prisoners in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, in a potential breakthrough

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been discharged from a London hospital and will continue his recovery from COVID-19 at his country residence of Chequers, his office said on Sunday.

A sheet of paper bearing Paul McCartney’s handwritten lyrics to “Hey Jude” sold for $910,000 in an online auction held Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ historic split.

China yesterday reported a rise in new coronavirus infections, mostly in travellers arriving from abroad, as doctors in the central city of Wuhan, where the virus initially emerged, warned its behaviour was still not well-understood.

A new study examining air samples from hospital wards with Covid-19 patients has found the virus can travel up to 13 feet (four meters) -- twice the distance current guidelines say people should leave between themselves in public.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to extend the world’s biggest pandemic lockdown for two weeks, state ministers said after talks on the growing fallout in the country yesterday.

Officials have recorded more than 1.7 million cases and more than 103,257 deaths in 193 countries and territories since the virus