Airlines worldwide stand to lose a combined $29.3 billion of revenue this year amidst the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said today.

The government of Singapore is providing credit incentives to individuals and enterprises to enhance skills development.

Donald Trump's longtime ally Roger Stone has been sentenced to 40 months in prison for impeding a congressional investigation, in a case that ignited a firestorm over the US president's political interference in the justice system.

Chinese suffering under harsh measures used to fight the deadly new coronavirus should recognise that similar methods have been deployed against China's minorities for years, an exiled Uighur rights activist said this week.

The streets of South Korea’s fourth-largest city are found abandoned, with residents holed up indoors after dozens of people caught the coronavirus in what the authorities described as a “super-spreading event” at a church.

Lesotho Prime Minister Thomas Thabane is expected today to be charged with the murder of his estranged wife, who was gunned down

A Japanese firm was chosen by Colombo yesterday to build a new $570 million terminal for Sri Lanka’s main airport, as Tokyo re-

Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg endured a punishing assault in his debut Democratic presidential debate Wednesday from rivals who savaged him for parachuting in late and throwing astronomical amounts of money at the race.

Russian warplanes struck at rebel-held towns in northwest Syria again yesterday and Turkish artillery supported insurgent attacks elsewhere as officials from the two countries struggled to reach a compromise to halt an escalation in the Syrian war.

A continued decline in the number of new cases of coronavirus infections in China is encouraging, the World Health Organization said yesterday, but it is too early to know if this trend will continue.

An outbreak of disinformation in China and elsewhere has hurt global efforts to combat the new coronavirus, said a specialist infectious disease lab located at the epicentre of the epidemic -- and at the heart of a number of conspiracy theories.

China’s foreign minister was set to meet his Southeast Asian peers in Laos yesterday for crisis talks over the coronavirus which has

A gunman with suspected far-right links shot dead nine people, some of them migrants from Turkey, in an overnight rampage through a German city before killing himself, officials said.

Nineteen children were among at least 31 civilians killed in Saudi-led coalition’s air strikes on rebel-held northern Yemen last week, the

A passenger train derailed killing two people in Australia yesterday, with medics saying many more were being assessed for injuries.

Australia set up a national inquiry Thursday into its month-long bushfire crisis that affected three in four Australians and prompted widespread criticism of the government for its sluggish response to the blazes.

Campaigning officially ended yesterday for Iran’s parliamentary election, a day before a vote seen as a litmus test of the popularity of the clerical establishment.

Freelance reporter Ahmer Khan was named the winner of the 2019 Agence France-Presse Kate Webb Prize yesterday for his coverage on the ground in India-controlled Kashmir during Delhi’s lockdown of the region.

US President Donald Trump promised to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he denied Russia leaked emails of his 2016 election rival’s campaign, a London court was told on Wednesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans yesterday to build thousands of new homes for Jewish settlers in annexed east Jerusalem, a project unveiled less than two weeks before a general election.