A fanatical runner jogged the equivalent of an ultra-marathon inside his small apartment as people in virus-hit China desperately try to keep fit while cooped up indoors.

An air strike in Afghanistan has killed at least eight civilians, officials said yesterday, as the war-torn country prepares for a “reduction in violence” under a deal between Taliban militants and the United States.

A demonstrator was shot dead near the Iraqi capital’s main protest camp by unidentified attackers using a gun silencer, medics said yesterday,

A Saudi fighter jet crashed in conflict-torn Yemen, the Riyadh-led military coalition said yesterday, as the Huthi rebels said they downed

Fifteen children were killed when a fire swept through an unlicensed orphanage outside Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, a judge told AFP

Singapore yesterday ordered the Facebook page of an anti-government website to warn readers it regularly posts falsehoods, the first time authorities have taken such action under a tough law against misinformation.

US President Donald Trump, ahead of his visit to India, claimed that Facebook has ranked him number one and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi number two, adding that it is a “great honour”.

Iran would be willing to move back towards the 2015 nuclear deal if Europe provides “meaningful” economic benefits, the country’s foreign minister said Friday,

Harvey Weinstein was a “predator” who used his status as a powerful Hollywood producer to take advantage of the women he attacked, prosecutors said Friday as his sex crimes trial drew to a close.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday defended his nation’s global role despite misgivings in Europe, vowing that Western values would prevail over Russian and Chinese desires for “empire”.

China is disinfecting and isolating used banknotes as part of efforts to stop the spread of the new coronavirus that has killed more than 1,500 people, officials said yesterday.

A top Chinese official acknowledged that the new coronavirus is a deep challenge to the country, but defended Beijing’s management of the epidemic while lashing out at the “overreaction” of other countries.

He is the president of a top US trading and security partner but two of the Democratic candidates for the White House couldn’t name the leader of Mexico.

One more Bangladeshi national in Singapore has been infected with the novel coronavirus, Singapore’s Ministry of Health says.

Four children, aged between 10 and 12 years, are charred to death after a mini van of a private school carrying 12 students catches fire in Punjab’s Sangrur district.

The United States says it will send an aircraft to Japan to bring back US passengers on the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess, where the most coronavirus infections outside China have occurred.

Geographic proximity of the seven-nation BIMSTEC to the area stretching from Afghanistan to Myanmar and Thailand, which are major opium producing regions of the world, puts all countries, including Bangladesh, in a precarious position as far as the drug menace is concerned.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has said that global tax reforms mean it may have to pay more taxes in different countries, excerpts of a speech he is due to deliver in Germany on Saturday show.

After nearly two weeks cast away in search of a port that would take them, passengers aboard the MS Westerdam cruise ship spoke of an ordeal that was anything but harrowing.

Fifteen children died in a fire that swept overnight through an orphanage in Haiti run by a US Christian non-profit group, authorities say, triggering renewed controversy over the proliferation of non-registered orphanages in the poorest nation in the Americas.