So -- some sharks walk. Just not the scary ones. While great whites haunt the deep, walking sharks are content to scuttle in the shallows.

Nearly three dozen US troops suffered traumatic brain injuries or concussion in this month’s Iranian air strike on a military base in Iraq,

Billions of locusts swarming through East Africa are the result of extreme weather swings and could prove catastrophic for a region still reeling from drought and deadly floods, experts said Friday.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday hailed “a new chapter” in Britain’s history as he signed its divorce treaty with the EU, clearing another hurdle before the country exits the bloc next Friday.

Indian authorities yesterday restored internet in Indian Kashmir after a five-and-a half-month blackout but maintained a block on social media sites.

Harvey Weinstein told a private investigator to approach women he suspected were detailing sexual misconduct allegations against him to journalists, his rape trial was told Friday.

Lawyers for US President Donald Trump began his defense at the Senate impeachment trial yesterday, arguing that Democrats’ efforts to remove the president from office would set a “very, very dangerous” precedent in an election year.

Iraqi security forces raided Baghdad’s main protest site yesterday and tried to eject protesters in southern cities, firing tear gas and bullets killing four people and wounding dozens more, police and medical sources said.

Rescue workers raced against time yesterday to find survivors under the rubble after a powerful earthquake claimed 22 lives and left more than 1,200 injured in eastern Turkey.

A woman in England is reunited with her long-lost father after 56 years when he was “suggested” as a friend on Facebook.

A newly organised vaccine research group at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is likely to be testing the first of a number of potential experimental vaccines against the new SARS-like coronavirus that is spreading in China and beyond.

A 26-year-old man shot his parents and four other members of his family dead with a semi-automatic weapon in southwest Germany before calling the police and waiting for them to arrest him, authorities say.

The United States is arranging a charter flight tomorrow to bring its citizens and diplomats back from the Chinese city of Wuhan, epicentre of the outbreak of a new coronavirus, the Wall Stree Journal reports.

In the southern city of Basra, security forces raided the main anti-government sit-in overnight and deployed in force to stop protesters gathering there again. Police arrested at least 16 protesters in Basra, according to security sources.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has declared a virus emergency in the Asian financial hub, announcing a package of measures to limit the city's links with mainland China.

Two women, one pregnant, have been killed and seven other people injured after Myanmar troops shelled a Rohingya village, according to a lawmaker and a villager, two days after the UN's highest court ordered the country to protect the minority community.

The Chinese army deploys medical specialists to the epicentre of a spiralling viral outbreak that has killed 41 people and spread around the world, as millions spent their normally festive Lunar New Year holiday under lockdown.

Cases of Coronavirus have been detected in Australia, Malaysia and Nepal as the virus has already claimed 41 lives in China.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey reaches 22, as rescuers search for an estimated 22 more people trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.

The official death toll from the coronavirus in China jumps on Saturday to 41 from 26 a day earlier, as local media reported a doctor on the frontline of the battle to contain the virus in Wuhan city had died.