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

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.

A leading Chinese human rights lawyer has been released from prison after almost five years behind bars, his wife said yesterday. Wang

Malaysian authorities said yesterday they had intercepted a boat ferrying a group of 202 people believed to be ethnic Rohingya. Malaysia,

French police have arrested a third suspect, another Sudanese national, in an expanding terror probe after a knife attack in the country’s

Iran’s new cases of coronavirus have dropped for the fourth consecutive day, official figures released Saturday showed, as a two-week

Mainland China reported 30 new coronavirus cases yesterday, up from 19 a day earlier as the number of cases involving travellers from abroad as well as local transmissions increased, highlighting the difficulty in stamping out the outbreak.

Italy and Spain reported their lowest daily rise in Covid-19 deaths and said the number of patients in intensive care had fallen for the first time.

Singapore reported 120 new coronavirus cases yesterday, by far its highest daily rise, and quarantined nearly 20,000 migrant workers in their dormitories.

France is to begin clinical trials involving transfusions of blood plasma from coronavirus survivors into patients who have severe symptoms in a bid to treat the illness, the institutions involved said Saturday.

Expanding the testing strategy in line with its containment plans in high-risk areas and Covid-19 hotspots, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) issued an advisory on Saturday to start rapid antibody-based blood test for coronavirus.

India’s national airlines -- Air India -- which is ferrying European and Canadian citizens stuck in India amid nationwide lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak, has garnered praise from Pakistan’s Air Traffic Controller (ATC) while flying over the country.

A member of a popular folk music group that is banned in Turkey dies on the 288th day of a hunger strike she and a colleague started while imprisoned to protest the government’s treatment of their band.

A Sudanese refugee has gone on a knife rampage in a town in southeastern France, killing two people in what is being treated as a terrorist attack.

South Korea yesterday said it will extend its intensive social distancing campaign scheduled to end on Monday by two weeks in a bid to curb the rate of coronavirus infections to around 50 a day.

More than 1,130,204 cases of infection, including 60,457 deaths, have been reported in 190 countries and territories around the

The Group of 77 and China called Friday for an end to unilateral sanctions against developing countries during the coronavirus crisis,