A mother and her three children scanned the school supplies in a Paris supermarket, plucking out multicolored fountain pens, crisp notebooks – and plenty of masks. Despite resurgent coronavirus...

The white supremacist who slaughtered 51 worshippers at two New Zealand mosques was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the first time the maximum available...

Obesity increases the risk of death from Covid-19 by nearly 50% and may make vaccines against the disease less effective, a comprehensive study using global data has found. The study, published...

Workers in bright yellow vests stand on the dock in Greece’s main port of Piraeus, greeting hundreds of masked ferry passengers with fliers and the occasional temperature...

Scientists have reported the world’s first case of a human being reinfected with coronavirus in a discovery that could have significant implications for the development of vaccines and hopes of...

Sicily’s governor has ordered all migrant residences on the Italian island to be shut down by Monday, part of a push-back by Italian regions alarmed by a surge in COVID-19 cases a few weeks...

Libya's UN-recognised government announced a ceasefire across the country on Friday, with hopes for peace in the conflict which has been going on for nine years being raised,  The Tripoli-based...

India has recorded another 24-hour jump in coronavirus infections as the disease spreads across the country’s southern states after plateauing in the capital and the financial center of...

The head of the World Health Organisation says he hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be over in two years, Sky News reports. The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 took two years to end, he...

Masks slow the spread of SARS-CoV-2 by reducing how much infected people spray the virus into the environment around them when they cough or talk. Evidence from laboratory experiments, hospitals and...