Queen Elizabeth II will urge people to rise to the challenge posed by the coronavirus outbreak, in a rare special address to Britain and Commonwealth nations on Sunday. The broadcast, scheduled to air at 1900 GMT on Sunday, is only the fourth time... >>>

A gang battle in Mexico has left at least 19 people dead in the northern state of Chihuahua, officials said Saturday. At least five armed clashes have occurred in the Madera community so far this year, local authorities have... >>>

On January 25, as the world was still waking up to the potential danger of the novel coronavirus spreading rapidly out of central China, two governments recorded four new infections within their territory. © SAM YEH/AFP/AFP via Getty Images Soldiers >>>

A global coalition of oil-producing nations has postponed an emergency summit planned for Monday as hopes of an unprecedented production pact between the world’s three biggest crude producers faded. A 23-nation alliance led by Saudi Arabia and... >>>

It may lack the allure of Rome or Venice, but the country’s economic engine will drive its post-virus recovery.(Bloomberg) -- In locked-down Milan, lives that always spilled joyously into the piazzas have moved almost entirely online, and... >>>

About 130 of Hong Kong's frontline riot police officers will be sent to quarantine camp after two of their colleagues were confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus, a police source told AFP late Saturday. © DALE DE LA REY People wearing... >>>

ROME — There is a growing sense in Italy that the worst may have passed. The weeks of locking down the country, center of the world’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak, may be starting to pay off, as officials announced this week that the numbers of... >>>

Since Chinese officials disclosed the outbreak of a mysterious pneumonialike illness to international health officials on New Year’s Eve, at least 430,000 people have arrived in the United States on direct flights from China, including nearly 40,000 >>>

The selected low-risk offenders will be electronically tagged and released on temporary licence.Inmates with two months or less still to serve will be released on temporary licence in... >>>

In the U.S., now the center of the global pandemic, New York state reported its highest daily rise in deaths from Covid-19, and an abysmal March jobs report pointed to a severe labor-market collapse in the country. Get news and analysis on politics, >>>

Germany's confirmed coronavirus cases have risen by 6,082 in the past 24 hours, a slight decrease from the day before, according to data from the government's Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Saturday. © Reuters/KAI PFAFFENBACH Outbreak of the >>>

PARIS (AP) — A man wielding a knife attacked residents venturing out to shop in a town under lockdown south of the French city of Lyon Saturday, killing two people and wounding others, prosecutors said. The anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office... >>>

Here are the latest developments in Asia related to the coronavirus pandemic: - China mourns virus victims - China came to a standstill to mourn the patients and medical staff who died because of the coronavirus outbreak, with the country observing... >>>

Poaching and habitat loss have decimated Indonesia's orangutan population, but now coronavirus has emerged as another potential deadly threat to the critically endangered species. While there have been no confirmed cases of transmission... >>>

Seoul has set up a task force to keep up with the surge in requests.South Korea has received requests from 121 countries to export or donate coronavirus testing supplies, according to one government... >>>