Egypt has confirmed its first case of a deadly coronavirus that emerged in central China at the end of last year and has since spread to...
Fifteen children have died in Haiti after a fire swept through an orphanage on the outskirts of the capital. The cause of the fire was being...
Fossils of a turtle the size of a car have been unearthed in what is now northern South America. The turtle – Stupendemys geographicus – is...
A cruise ship that was stranded at sea, because ports were worried about passengers bringing coronavirus, has been allowed to dock in Cambodia. The MS Westerdam...
Some 242 deaths from the new coronavirus were recorded in the Chinese province of Hubei on Wednesday – the deadliest day of the outbreak. There was...
A notorious murderer who worked for Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar has died of stomach cancer, Colombian officials say. Jhon Jairo Velásquez, who boasted of killing...
A Chinese newborn has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus just 30 hours after birth, the youngest case recorded so far, state media said. The baby...
A second Palestinian has been killed by Israeli fire during a demonstration in the occupied West Bank against the demolition of a Palestinian home, Palestinian official...
Protesters in Lebanon have converged on its poorest city to show the government they are united in their calls for political change. There is still widespread...
Protesters in Jordan are decrying a deal that will see Israel pump $10bn worth of gas into the country, calling it an “enemy invasion”. Although Jordan...
