People wait in line to take COVID-19 test at a health centre in Hyderabad, India, on July 29, 2020. India's COVID-19 tally crossed the 1.5 million-mark on Wedne

At least 26 people have died after 46 days of heavy rains in South Korea, with the country's longest monsoon in seven years causing more flooding, landslides an

A woman who was filmed naked and unconscious by a man she did not know in a London hotel room won a five-year legal battle on Friday after he pleaded guilty und

The threat that a massive chunk of glacier loosened by soaring temperatures could collapse near an alpine resort on the Italian side of the Mont Blanc mountain

People look on as firefighters work at the scene where a fire broke out in an apartment block in Bohumin, Czech Republic on Saturday. Photo: AFPThree children w

Several bomb threats were made against health authorities across Germany overnight, police said Saturday, although searches have so far not turned up any suspic

US President Donald Trump wears a mask as he tours a lab where they are making components for a potential vaccine at the Bioprocess Innovation Center at Fujifil

People tour the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the United States, July 31, 2020. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)
A key COVID-19 model has updated its projection

A police officer takes body temperature of a visitor at the entrance of a building in Santiago, Chile, March 20, 2020. (Photo by Jorge Villegas/Xinhua)
The Chil

Passengers are seen at Penn Station in New York, the United States, on Aug. 6, 2020. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday announced COVID-19 traveler

The operator of a Japanese bulk carrier which ran aground off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean apologized on Sunday for a major oil spill which officials and envir

People wearing masks walk on a street in Havana, Cuba. Photo: Xinhua
Cuban Minister of Public Health Jose Angel Portal said on Saturday that the outbreak of the

Medics work at a COVID-19 drive-thru testing site in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 31, 2020. Photo: Xinhua
Brazil has registered over 100,000 deaths and more than 3 m

Brent Scowcroft, a two-time US national security advisor for Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, died at the age of 95 on Thursday.

A spokesman annou

Former US National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft File photo:AFP
The best way to honor General Scocroft is for both sides to work together to put China-US rel

The wife of Dutch Ambassador to Lebanon Jan Waltmans has died of wounds sustained in the Beirut bomb explosion, the Netherlands' foreign ministry said Saturday.

With Los Angeles nightclubs closed, party promoters have turned to mansions in the Hollywood Hills to throw lavish, raucous and sometimes deadly gatherings that

Photo taken on May 26, 2020 shows the exterior of the New York Stock Exchange in New York, the United States. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)
President of the Federal Reserv

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For its users, TikTok is not just another social media app, it's part of their lifestyle allowing the many Generation Z'ers to share laughs, get crea

Volunteers help to clean the streets in Beirut, Lebanon, on Aug. 7, 2020. (Xinhua/Bilal Jawich)

The United Nations is releasing 6 million US dollars in immedia

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US COVID-19 cases hit 5 million: Johns Hopkins University

People wearing face masks walk on a street in Buenos Aries, Argentina, on July 12, 2020. (Photo by Martin Zabala/Xinhua)
The Argentine government announced on S

People wearing face masks leave a bus station in Tehran, Iran, July 8, 2020. (Photo by Ahmad Halabisaz/Xinhua)
Iranian president warned on Sunday that the COVID

A Lebanese protester waves the national flag during clashes with security forces in downtown Beirut, Lebanon on Saturday, following a demonstration against a po

Protesters try to storm the parliament building in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, on Aug. 8, 2020. A Lebanese police officer was killed and 142 people were injured o