Germany is facing its biggest challenge “since the Second World War” in the fight against the coronavirus, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said, in what observers called a “final warning” for citizens to heed sweeping confinement measures.

The Delhi court yesterday dismissed the plea of three of the four death-row convicts in the Nirbhaya gang-rape and murder case seeking stay on the execution which is slated for early morning today.

Malaysian authorities are trying to track down an estimated 2,000 Rohingya who attended a Muslim religious gathering that led to a spike in coronavirus cases across Southeast Asia, a security source and two other people familiar with the matter said.

The United States on Wednesday pressed the Afghan government and Taliban to move ahead with a delayed plan to free prisoners, saying the coronavirus crisis created urgency.

Pakistani officials announced late Wednesday the country’s first two confirmed fatalities due to the novel coronavirus, after two men died in the north of the country.

Sub-Saharan Africa has recorded its first COVID-19 death, a high-ranking politician in Burkina Faso, as the head of the World Health Organisation urged the continent to “prepare for the worst”.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday ordered the country’s 1.3 billion population to follow a one-day curfew to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

The United States is suspending all routine visa services as of Wednesday in most countries worldwide due to the coronavirus outbreak, a

A summit of Southeast Asian and other international leaders scheduled in Vietnam early next month has been postponed until end-June

An expert panel guiding Japan’s coronavirus response was due to recommend yesterday that some schools can reopen, though mass

The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has the novel coronavirus that is sweeping the globe, he announced yesterday. “I’m fine,

On Sunday morning, Irish chef Cúán Greene woke up to the review of his life. Britain’s Observer newspaper told readers his cooking would make them “thrillingly giddy and euphoric”. Hours later he was out of a job.

Bayer AG says it has donated 3 million tablets of the malaria drug Resochin to the US government for potential use to treat COVID-19.

Top European Union leaders has welcomed the European Central Bank's surprise 750-billion-euro bond buying stimulus package and vowed they would do whatever it takes to protect the bloc's economy.

The coronavirus pandemic could trigger a global economic crisis destroying up to 25 million jobs around the world if governments do not act fast to shield workers from the impact, the International Labour Organization (ILO) says.

A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake jolts Indonesia’s holiday island of Bali.

Indonesia’s coronavirus death toll yesterday jumped from five to 19 and Malaysia warned of “a tsunami” of cases if people did not follow new movement restrictions as infections surged across Southeast Asia.

China is withdrawing the press credentials of American journalists at three US newspapers, intensifying a bitter fight between the world’s top two economies that has widened to include the coronavirus outbreak and media freedoms.

New York City may soon compel most people to stay in their homes except in emergencies or when shopping for essentials, Mayor Bill de

CNN Philippines yesterday stopped broadcasting after a coronavirus case was confirmed in the building where the television channel is