Gunmen and suicide bombers raided a Sikh religious complex in the Afghan capital of Kabul yesterday, killing 25 people before security forces killed all of the attackers, the government said.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday described doctors and other health staff at the frontlines of the fight against coronavirus as “incarnations of God” and said those harassing them would face police action.

Two healthy teens in US and UK died of coronavirus raising doubts on the narrative that the virus is not deadly for youths.

Russian lawmakers have proposed imposing severe punishments -- including up to seven years in prison -- for people breaking coronavirus quarantine rules.

Britain will have test kits available within days to be sent to households to establish whether people have contracted the new coronavirus and developed immunity, a health official says.

Spain registered 738 fatalities from the coronavirus over the past 24 hours in the steepest increase of the death toll since the epidemic hit the country, the health ministry reports.

Veteran photographer Nemai Ghosh, whose nearly 30-year-old association with Satyajit Ray earned him the title “Boswell with a camera”, dies in Kolkata aged 86.

Unidentified gunmen and suicide bombers raided a Sikh religious complex in the Afghan capital of Kabul killing 25 people before security forces killed all of the attackers, the government says.

Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, has tested positive for coronavirus, his household says.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged leaders of the world’s 20 major industrialized nations on Tuesday to adopt a “wartime” plan including a stimulus package “in the trillions of dollars” for businesses, workers and households in developing countries trying to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

Mainland China reported a drop in new confirmed coronavirus cases as imported infections fell and no locally transmitted infections are reported, including in central Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak in China.

Facebook says the coronavirus pandemic has users flocking to its services while it undermines ad revenue on which the world's biggest social network depends.

A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes near Russia's far eastern Kuril Islands and a tsunami warning has been issued for the closest shores.

An Arizona man dies and his wife is in critical condition after they ingested chloroquine phosphate - an aquarium cleaning product similar to drugs that have been named by President Trump as potential treatments for coronavirus infection.

Terrence McNally, a revered American playwright, librettist and screenwriter whose long career earned him four Tony awards and an Emmy, dies following coronavirus complications aged 81.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah showed no sign of ending their bitter feud yesterday, even after it cost the impoverished nation $1 billion in US aid -- with yet more on the line.

Elite hackers tried to break into the World Health Organization earlier this month, sources told Reuters, part of what a senior agency official said was a more than two-fold increase in cyberattacks.

The COVID-19 outbreak in the United States has the potential to exceed that in Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday as the number of reported US cases surges.

The UN rights chief yesterday called for any sanctions imposed on countries like Iran facing the new coronavirus pandemic to be “urgently re-evaluated” to avoid pushing strained medical systems into collapse.

Pakistan has suspended six civil servants after they posed for a selfie with a coronavirus patient in a quarantine centre, an official said yesterday.