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...

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was placed on a ventilator in a hospital intensive care unit in Siberia after falling ill from suspected poisoning during a flight, his spokeswoman said...

An Iraqi-born man deliberately drove his car into motorcycles along a stretch of Berlin highway, leaving at least one person in life-threatening condition in what German officials said Wednesday was a...

Not two months after battling back the coronavirus, Spain’s hospitals are beginning to see patients struggling to breathe returning to their wards. The deployment of a military emergency...

A passenger train derailed in northeast Scotland after stormy weather, killing three people and injuring six others Wednesday, authorities said. The train's driver is believed to be among the...

US President Donald Trump has suggested the ‘1917’Spanish flu pandemic – which actually began in 1918 – “probably ended the Second World War”, a conflict which...