(NST) - President Donald Trump confirmed that the US had killed the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula – days after the jihadist group claimed responsibility for a mass shooting at a US…

(NST) - The former chief of Sri Lanka’s national carrier was arrested Thursday over allegations he received bribes for a multi-billion-dollar Airbus aircraft deal, as the fallout from corruption…

(BBC) - A Chinese doctor who tried to issue the first warning about the deadly coronavirus outbreak has died, the hospital treating him has said. Li Wenliang contracted the virus while working…

(NST) - US President Donald Trump drew on staunch Republican support to defeat the gravest threat yet to his three-year-old presidency on Wednesday, winning acquittal in the Senate on impeachment…

(NST) - Two more cities in China’s eastern province of Zhejiang have restricted the movement of residents over fears of the spread of the coronavirus, far from the epicentre of the health…

(FMT) - Pakistan’s Imran Khan today blamed Muslim leaders for failing to explain issues affecting the community to the West, including the controversy sparked by “The Satanic Verses”, which he…

A scientist from the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has debunked a recent conspiracy theory that claimed the novel coronavirus was manufactured and escaped from the…

(Reuters) - Fallout from the Airbus bribery scandal reverberated around the world on Monday as the head of one of its top buyers temporarily stood down and investigations were launched in…

(CNA) - AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France: Thirty-six people aboard an evacuation flight from China that landed in France on Sunday (Feb 2) showed symptoms of the novel coronavirus, which has killed more…

A 71-year-old patient tested negative for the virus 48 hours after doctors administered a combination of antivirals used to treat flu and HIV. Thailand has detected 19 confirmed cases of the virus…

(CNN) - London police named 20-year-old Sudesh Amman as the attacker responsible for stabbing two people in the Streatham area of south London on Sunday. "Although the suspect has not been…

(CNA) - China reported an outbreak of a highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 bird flu at a farm in Shaoyang city of the southern province of Hunan, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said…

Incidents of hostility towards Asian people reported in Italy, France, Canada and UK. (The Guardian) - Chinese people in western countries where there have been cases of the Wuhan coronavirus have…

(BBC) - The US government has advised against all travel to China due to the threat posed by the coronavirus outbreak, raising its alert to the highest level. The state department's "do not…

(BBC) - US President Donald Trump is set to be acquitted in his impeachment trial after senators voted against calling witnesses or admitting new evidence. Democrats hoped four swing…

(BBC) - The UK has officially left the European Union after 47 years of membership - and more than three years after it voted to do so in a referendum. The historic moment, which happened at…

(BBC) - The new coronavirus has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization, as the outbreak continues to spread outside China. "The main reason for this declaration is…

(NST) - India is now capable of making Pakistan “bite the dust” in less than 10 days in any new war with its arch-rival, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said. The nuclear-armed neighbours have…

(NST) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement said yesterday it had fired rocket and drone strikes at Saudi targets including Aramco oil facilities, the group's first claim of such attacks since it…

(The Telegraph) - Scientists have successfully grown a version of the Wuhan coronavirus which could pave the way for the development of a vaccine against the deadly illness. Researchers from…

(Reuters) - The European Parliament on Wednesday gave its final approval to Britain’s divorce deal from the bloc, paving the way for Brexit to take place on Friday. The chamber broke into…

(SCMP) - For the final weeks of 2019 and into the new year, China and Indonesia have been facing off over the sovereignty of waters around Jakarta’s Riau Islands, in the South China Sea.…

(NST) - A viral outbreak that has killed 106 people in China could reach its peak in around 10 days, a top Chinese government expert said Tuesday. The novel coronavirus that has infected…

(Nikkei) - The coronavirus outbreak in China is hitting the country's manufacturing nerve centers, as measures including an unusual decision to extend the Lunar New Year holiday lengthen plant…

(Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson will meet senior ministers on Tuesday to decide whether to allow the use of equipment made by China’s Huawei in Britain’s future 5G mobile network.…

The Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) has built and is regularly updating an online dashboard for tracking the worldwide spread of the coronavirus outbreak that began…

(Reuters) - POTENTIAL damage to business from China’s fast-spreading coronavirus knocked more than 2 per cent off European stocks on Monday, after the world’s second biggest economy ramped up…

Three rockets slammed into the US embassy in Iraq’s capital on Sunday in the first direct hit reported after months of close calls, as thousands kept up anti-government sit-ins across the country.…

(BBC) - The Pentagon has said that 34 US troops were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries (TBI) following an Iranian attack on their base in Iraq. Seventeen troops are still under medical…

(Reuters) - The Chinese city of Wuhan is rapidly building a new 1,000-bed hospital to treat victims of a new coronavirus, mobilising machinery to get it ready by early next week, state media said.…