The World Health Organization’s director-general has faced many challenges during the coronavirus pandemic: racial slurs, death threats, social media caricatures — he...
The coronavirus outbreak in South Africa has hit hardest in the Western Cape, home to the city of Cape Town. The province...
Russia on Thursday reported 9,974 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, its lowest daily rise since...
A truck packed with explosives blew up near a court in the eastern Afghan city of Gardez on Thursday, killing at least...
Japan was expected to lift a state of emergency across a large part of the country on Thursday, but the capital Tokyo...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced frustration Wednesday that Russia was targeting her in hacking action, saying she had concrete proof of the “outrageous” spying...
Poornima Nair, who gained medical qualifications from the University of Delhi in 1987 and practised as a general practitioner after moving to...
A 113-year-old woman, believed to be the oldest person living in Spain, has beaten the coronavirus at a retirement home where several...
South Korea health authorities said on Wednesday they had no immediate plans to reinstate strict social distancing rules despite a fresh coronavirus...
The British economy shrank 2% in the first quarter of the year from the previous three-month period, the biggest quarterly decline since...