U.N. aid chief to G20 nations: ‘Step up now or pay price later’

“U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock said on ThursdayCoronavirus support to poor countries has been so far “grossly inadequate and that’s dangerously shortsighted”.

Indonesian rescuers hunt for dozens missing after floods kill 36

Rescuers pulled bodies from under mud and debris Friday as they raced to find dozens still missing after flash floods killed at least 36 people on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island.

PM Khan urges ‘simplicity’ to slow virus over Eid

Pakistanis should celebrate the upcoming Eid festival with “simplicity” to prevent a spike in new coronavirus cases, Prime Minister Imran Khan said Friday.

Russian hackers ‘target coronavirus vaccine’: UK

Britain’s cyber-security agency on Thursday accused a hacking group it said “almost certainly” operates as part of Russian intelligence services of trying to steal research into potential coronavirus vaccines.

New lockdowns ordered as India virus cases near one million

One of India’s most impoverished states went into lockdown Thursday, but near-normal traffic on Bihar’s streets showed the difficulty of corralling over 125 million people.

Australia deports New Zealanders despite virus travel ban

Australia has resumed deporting New Zealanders on “character grounds” despite the coronavirus halting international travel and anger in the neighbouring nation over the controversial policy.

Fear and anger as India’s Bihar locks down again

Thousands of Indians ignored social distancing rules to throng markets in Patna on Wednesday, desperate to stock up on essentials before midnight when Bihar state’s 125 million inhabitants go into coronavirus lockdown.

Kanye West drops out of the presidential race

Kanye West has reportedly decided to call it quits on his run in the 2020 Presidential election, less than two weeks after he first marked his entrance into the race.

Trump identifies another hoax: Coronavirus

President Donald Trump on Monday took a swipe at health experts in his government leading the U.S. response to the coronavirus, and one of them, Dr. Anthony Fauci, answered with an appeal for states to stick to guidelines to snuff out a surge in cases.

Virus resurgence sparks Sydney pubs clampdown

Sydney pubs were ordered to clamp down on customer numbers Tuesday as a coronavirus outbreak worsened in Australia’s two biggest cities.

New Zealand Opposition Leader resigns after 53 days

New Zealand’s opposition leader Todd Muller has resigned after just 53 days in the position, just months before the country heads to the polling booths in a general election.

Global coronavirus cases rise above 13 million

Global coronavirus infections passed 13 million on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, marking another milestone in the spread of the disease which has killed more than half a million people in seven months.

Covid-19 could be caught again like a common cold

Immunity to Covid-19 might be lost within months, according to research.

Fans in India pray for Bachchans to recover from COVID-19

Fans across India prayed on Monday for Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan and others members of his movie star family who have fallen sick with the coronavirus as the one-day rise in infections hit a new record without any sign of a peak.

US posts new daily virus case record of 66,528: Johns Hopkins

The United States, the country hardest hit by the coronavirus, on Saturday posted 66,528 new cases, a record for a 24-hour period, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.

India records 12% of daily global Covid-19 cases

India has been witnessing a spike in the number of coronavirus disease cases. In the last nine days, the country has recorded more than 22,000 Covid-19 cases daily.

Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai tests positive for coronavirus

Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai has tested positive for the coronavirus, a Mumbai city authority official told AFP Sunday, just a day after her actor father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan said he was in hospital with the infectious disease.

NASA building spacecraft to explore a metal-rich asteroid

NASA has started work on a spaceship that will be sent to explore a metal-rich asteroid called Psyche that could be worth more than $10,000 quadrillion.

us coronavirus cases soar

Bolivia’s interim president became the latest world leader to test positive for the coronavirus Thursday, as the United States notched yet another record-breaking surge of cases while global infections and fatalities continued their relentless rise.

Erdogan signs decree turning Istanbul’s Hagia Sofia into a Mosque

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signed a decree opening the world-famous Hagia Sophia as a mosque, after a court ruled that its conversion to a museum in the 1930s was unlawful.

US Supreme court rules, Trump must turn over tax returns

Donald Trump rage tweeted ‘NOT FAIR!’ Thursday as the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that he cannot claim immunity to stop his tax returns being obtained by prosecutors.

Australia to relax lockdown in eight public-housing towers

Australia’s second-most populous state will relax restrictions on many of the 3,000 people locked down in nine public-housing towers despite surging numbers of COVID-19 cases, state premier Daniel Andrews said on Thursday.

Coronavirus could kill more through hunger than disease itself

The global coronavirus pandemic could lead to more deaths worldwide through hunger than from the disease itself, humanitarian group Oxfam warned on Thursday.

How COVID-19 affects the brain and can cause...

Infection with the coronavirus can cause delirium, stroke and nerve damage in ‘a higher than expected number of patients’, a study has found.

Sudan eases lockdown measures, economic crisis escalates

Sudan began loosening lockdown measures Wednesday in and around the capital after three months of tight restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic. The usual bustle of pedestrians and car traffic returned to Khartoum’s streets, with shops and restaurants reopening.

FBI Director claims China the biggest threat to US

The head of the FBI said Tuesday that China is pushing its preferences in the U.S. election as part of broad intelligence operations, whose economic impact he called unprecedented.

US military with India in conflict with China: Official

The US military “will continue to stand strong” in relationship to a conflict between India and China or anywhere else, a top White House official has said, after the Navy deployed two aircraft carriers to the strategic South China Sea to boost its presence in the region.

Vatican hospital successfully separates twins conjoined at skull

Doctors at the Vatican’s children’s hospital in Rome said on Tuesday they successfully separated a pair of twins conjoined at the back of their heads.

Starving children -Yemen’s grim legacy of war

Masirah Saqer could barely open her eyes, as she struggled to swallow the milk her grandmother attempted to feed her with a syringe. Nearby the cries of other malnourished children reverberated around the pink-walled hospital ward, a vivid reminder of the human cost of Yemen’s devastating conflict, which drags into a seventh year on Tuesday.

India surges in cases as virus slams US hospitals

India on Monday became the country with the third-highest coronavirus caseload in the world, as officials warned that hospitals in the United States were in danger of being overwhelmed by a surge in infections.