A two-member advance team of the World Health Organization (WHO) dispatched to Wuhan to probe the origins of the Covid-19 outbreak will undertake preliminary work with local scientists, the agency’s emergencies...

Mixed messages from leaders are undermining public trust in the virus response, warns the WHO chief.

With a relatively low number of cases, many question the need for such measures.

Video shows officer in Allentown restraining a man outside a hospital by pressing his knee on the man's neck.

Petr Yan's triumphant world title victory against Jose Aldo at UFC 251 has been immortalized on the streets of St. Petersburg with a picture-perfect mural of Russia's latest UFC champion....

A former adviser to Barack Obama is being slammed for a “ghoulish” tweet celebrating the “short term sacrifices” New York City made to go from the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic to having a day with no new r...

General Yusuf Rage escaped unhurt when a blast targeted his convoy in the Somali capital.

Two World Health Organization experts have gone to China for a mission to trace the origin of the pandemic.

The Covid-19 pandemic is set to get “worse and worse” if countries do not stick to strict healthcare guidelines, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The disease has already killed more than half-a-mi...

One is calling for budget to be spent helping the world's poorest people

Police searching for missing Glee star Naya Rivera have found a body in a lake in California.

The European Union is preparing countermeasures on China in response to Beijing’s new security law on Hong Kong, the EU’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said on Monday. However, diplomats said the likely steps will not amo...

A memo leaked over the weekend said several officials were "concerned" by Dr Fauci's past comments.

Planetary geophysicists have used a new numerical model to determine that the moon is in fact 85 million years younger than previously thought, having formed from the extremely violent and unlikely collision of...

A UK Conservative MP says there could be as many as 10,000 victims of modern slavery working in factories in Leicester. His claim comes as a new report estimates there are around 100,000 such victims nationwide....

Why historical buildings in Iraq's capital Baghdad are under threat and what is being done to save them.

A community in western Indonesia is banding together to support a group of 99 Rohingya refugees, who they rescued from Indonesian waters late last month.

After a delay of 15 years, Nigeria's international gas pipeline is finally under way.

Israeli police and Jerusalem municipal officials scuffled with protesters demonstrating against PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday. Officers dismantled tents set up by the demonstrators outside the premier’s residence,...

A judge in Washington DC has ordered a delay in the execution of convicted murderer Daniel Lewis Lee. It would have been the first federal execution carried out in the US in more than 17 years, had it gone ahead...

Police say speeding incident took place near Inverness on Friday evening

A Russian priest who seized control a convent, denies the existence of Covid-19, and criticized church leadership, has now called for Vladimir Putin to resign and transfer to him the position of Russian Presiden...

Businesses face 400 million extra customs declarations a year at a cost up as much as £20 billion under government plans

About a dozen journalists protest 'secrecy' over Safronov's arrest for allegedly passing secrets to the Czech Republic.

Final preparations for the launch from Japan of the United Arab Emirates’ first Mars mission were underway on Monday, although there was a chance of a delay because of bad weather, AP reports.The liftoff of the UAE...

A blaze has broken out in one of the World Trade Center's towers in the capital city of Nigeria, Abuja. Footage from the scene shows a large plume of smoke billowing from the building's top floors....

Infections rose above 13 million across the world on Monday

Ivan Safronov, a former journalist and a current adviser to the head of the Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, has been charged with treason. He is alleged to have passed secret information to the Czechs at the be...

Dave Prentis hailed for 'outstanding leadership' by Keir Starmer

As if a global pandemic and one of the world’s strictest lockdowns wasn’t bad enough, South Africa has been powdered with snow and lashed by gale force winds – and now Cape Town’s streets are clogged with vast p...

Three men convicted of murder are scheduled to die by lethal injection this week at an Indiana prison from Monday.

Pilot begins a year earlier than planned to encourage less use of public transport during coronavirus crisis

'Nobody can rewrite history', Thaci says, before answering questions on his alleged war crimes committed in the 1990s.

The newspapers, uncovered in the Mont Blanc glacier, report the landmark election of Indira Gandhi.

TV personality Chuck Woolery ignited uproar after claiming there was a conspiracy afoot to distort the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in order to make Donald Trump lose November’s election, a tweet the presiden...

YouGov finds support strong for trans rights despite media backlash against Gender Recognition Act reforms

The review follows a fresh wave of calls to scrap the NFL team name long-criticised as racist.

Turkey dismissed prospects of any imminent ceasefire in Libya on Monday, saying any deal incorporating the existing frontlines would not benefit the Ankara-backed Government of National Accord (GNA). Foreign Ministe...

National governments need to increase the taxes imposed on the wealthy, because it’s the only way to “rebalance” a world hit by Covid-19, say dozens of millionaires in an open letter....

The claim that we are making 'wonderful progress' against global poverty is a fallacy based on a colonial mindset.

British-funded agencies in Middle East country have dropped a probe into abuse of detainees

Shocking eyewitness footage captured during this past weekend’s unrest in Portland shows a Black Lives Matter protester, who claimed to be disabled, wishing death on police officers and their families....

Rights groups say Mohammed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa were tortured to extract false confessions over bombing of convoy.

Andy Byford took office as London's transport commissioner at the end of June