(FMT) - President Donald Trump broke with tradition Thursday by calling for investigation of his White House predecessor Barack Obama in the latest attempt to push a conspiracy theory about his…

(Reuters) - Stock markets fell and bonds were in demand on Thursday as worries grew about a second wave of coronavirus infections and a dour assessment from the head of the U.S. Federal Reserve…

(ST) - Six new Covid-19 cases, all of whom were local transmissions, have surfaced in Wuhan barely two weeks after the city in central China declared that the last of its patients had been…

(NST) - The new coronavirus may never go away and populations around the world will have to learn to live with it, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday. As some countries around the…

(Malay Mail) - An Iranian warship was hit by a friendly fire missile during naval exercises, killing 19 sailors, state media and the army said today, amid tensions with the US in Gulf waters.…

(CNA) - Several Indian and Chinese soldiers were injured in a high-altitude cross-border clash involving fistfights and stone-throwing at a remote but strategically important mountain pass near…

Temperature checks do not account for asymptomatic COVID-19 cases, pre-symptomatic cases, or people with COVID-19 who do not have a fever. (Business Insider) - The Trump administration…

(Xinhua) - Six people were found to have antibodies for Covid-19 (coronavirus) in a nationwide random community survey, Brunei's Ministry of Health said on Sunday (May 10). According to the…

(Bangkok Post) - China reported a new cluster of coronavirus cases in Wuhan Monday (May 11) after a month without fresh infections at the pandemic's global epicentre, as a northeastern city was…

(FMT) - Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) today confirmed 486 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the infection tally for the republic to 23,822. The preliminary data at noon today showed only two…

(CNA) - Declining rates of coronavirus infections and falling daily COVID-19 death tolls have emboldened governments around the world to ease lockdown measures and reopen their economies. But…

(NST) - An Indian pharmacist died and his boss was left hospitalised after the pair drank a chemical concoction they had developed in an effort to treat Covid-19 coronavirus, police said on…

(Arab News) - Three members of the White House coronavirus task force, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, placed themselves in quarantine after contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19,…

(AFP) - Britain plans to introduce a 14-day mandatory quarantine for most international arrivals, reports said Saturday, despite growing pressure on the government to relax virus lockdown…

(SCMP) - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday said the coronavirus pandemic keeps unleashing “a tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scaremongering” and appealed for “an…

(Washington Post) - The South China Sea is becoming even choppier. Last month, China started to conduct a seismic survey within Malaysia’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ), and a Vietnamese fishing…

(The Guardian) - Vice-president Mike Pence’s press secretary tested positive for the coronavirus, the White House said Friday, making her the second person who works at the White House complex…

(Xinhua) - The notion of "American exceptionalism" argues that the United States has a special role in the world and serves as a role model for others to follow. That myth has fallen prey to…

(Reuters) - Russia's coronavirus cases overtook French and German infections on Thursday to become the fifth highest number in the world after a record daily rise, and Moscow's mayor said the real…

(ABC) -  Elephants living and working in Thailand's tourism industry are among the millions unemployed due to coronavirus and now they have been told to pack their trunks and head home. With…

(CNN) - There's new evidence that the coronavirus may have been in France weeks earlier than was previously thought. Doctors at a Paris hospital say they've found evidence that one patient…

(FMT) - Gayur Hassan’s Hindu neighbours came at night, throwing stones at his family’s home in a northern Indian village and setting his workshop on fire. All because his son “liked” a social…

(Yahoo) - President Donald Trump launched headlong into his push to reopen the country on Tuesday, saying Americans should begin returning to their everyday lives even if it leads to more sickness…

(China Daily) - Hong Kong has sunk deep into recession with its economy posting its steepest quarterly plunge on record, shrinking by nearly 9 percent in the first three months of this year,…

Like a global tsunami, the coronavirus pandemic has caused a huge loss of life and taken a massive economic toll. (NST) - In the US economy, skyrocketing unemployment is the most-visible sign…

"The story is worrying, as we see a mutated form of the virus very rapidly emerging," the study's authors say. (Sky News) - Scientists say they have identified a mutation in coronavirus which…

(CNA) - More than 30,000 people in the United Kingdom have died with suspected COVID-19, the highest official toll yet reported in Europe, according to data published on Tuesday (May 5). The…

(AFP) - Britain’s new car sales crashed in April to hit the lowest level since 1946 with many showrooms shut for the coronavirus lockdown, industry data showed today. New registrations for all…

(CNBC) - Among Asian economies, corporate debt is building up the fastest and the most in China, South Korea and Singapore, according to a report by Australian bank ANZ last week. Companies in…

(CNA) - Singapore’s factory activity shrank for the third consecutive month in April amid a “circuit breaker” period to curb the spread of COVID-19, making it the lowest reading since November…