A UN board of inquiry investigating attacks on civilian establishments in Syria, including hospitals, has refrained from directly holding

President Donald Trump’s chief spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham, who never held a single press briefing in a White House where Trump

Britain could see as many as 66,000 Covid-19 deaths during the first wave of the current pandemic, new research showed yesterday, making the outbreak there by far the deadliest in Europe.

As Covid-19 captures global headlines, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned yesterday that the world needs nearly six million nurses.

A lot of state governments as well as experts are requesting the Central government to extend the nationwide coronavirus lockdown beyond April 14, and the Centre is thinking in this direction, government sources said yesterday.

Two elderly South Korean coronavirus patients recovered from severe pneumonia after being treated with plasma from survivors, researchers said yesterday, offering hope in the face of the global pandemic.

The governors of New York, New Jersey and Louisiana pointed to tentative signs on Monday that the coronavirus outbreak may be starting to plateau in their states but warned against complacency as the death toll nationwide approached 11,000.

Facebook Inc says it would start surveying some US users about their health as part of a Carnegie Mellon University research project aimed at generating “heat maps” of self-reported coronavirus infections.

As COVID-19 captures global headlines, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the world needs nearly six million nurses.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's condition has worsened since being hospitalised with persistent COVID-19 symptoms and he has been moved into intensive care, his Downing Street office says in a statement.

Albanian people are being disinfected before entering a market, as Albanian authorities take measures to stop the spread of the

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other top government figures will take a 30 percent salary cut this year, a government minister said yesterday, as the country tackles the coronavirus outbreak and its impact on the economy.

Iran yesterday welcomed the launch of a European barter system to bypass US sanctions as a “good omen” but said it was

A deadly Pacific cyclone intensified as it hit Vanuatu yesterday, threatening a natural disaster that experts fear will undermine the

Temperatures last month were among the hottest on record for March, the European Union’s satellite monitoring service said yesterday,

More than 1.277 million cases, including 70,009 deaths, have been reported in 191 countries and territories around the world since

India, like a lot of countries plunged into crisis by the pandemic, is struggling to ramp up testing for the coronavirus, but in few places would the odds of containing the disease appear so bleak should domestic transmission start to multiply.

UN Chief Antonio Guterres has called on governments to take urgent measures in tackling a “horrifying global surge” in domestic violence fuelled by worldwide lockdowns that seek to curb the spread of the new coronavirus.

India’s President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and all members of the Indian parliament voluntarily decide to take a 30 percent cut in their pay and allowances for a year from April 1, 2020 amid the coronavirus outbreak and the expected adverse effect on the economy.

Queen Elizabeth tells the British people that they would overcome the coronavirus outbreak if they stayed resolute in the face of lockdown and self-isolation, invoking the spirit of World War Two in an extremely rare broadcast to the nation.