A Filipino diplomat at the UN has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, according to Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres....
The White House has said that President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence do not require testing for the novel coronavirus, following reports that a member of the Brazilian delegation that visited the US last week and met the two have been infected with the disease....
The Pentagon has confirmed that the US forces conducted strikes against a Shia militia group's facilities across Iraq, as a response to a rocket attack on a military base near Baghdad earlier this week that killed two American soldiers and a British service member. ...
People of different generations are equally lonely, but for different reasons, say researchers, adding that living alone increases the risk of loneliness in older age whereas in midlife feeling isolated is more linked to personality traits....
The UK's Prince Harry inadvertently gave Russian pranksters, who posed as Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, his phone number and personal email address, a media report said....
A crazed arsonist targeting former UK Prime Minister David Cameron burned down the latter's neighbours house with a Molotov cocktail, a media report said on Thursday....
US President Donald Trump's administration was considering postponing the April 15 tax filing deadline for individual taxpayers and small businesses to help mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said....
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has said that he would carry on in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, a day after his rival and former Vice President Joe Biden widened his lead in six-state mini-Super Tuesday primaries....
Canada is setting up a (Canadian) $1bn ($728 mn) coronavirus response fund, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Wednesday, asserting his government would do everything to keep their people "healthy, safe and supported"....
Coronavirus sweeping the US is casting its dark shadow on the nation's politics in an election year leading to the Democrats cancelling campaign rallies and barring audience from the debate between former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders, who are vying for the party nomination to challenge President Donald Trump in November....
