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Iran's official death toll from the coronavirus disease has passed 3,000. Health ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpour re...

A team of astronomers has found what it says is the best evidence yet for an elusive class of black hole. They say the pr...

Spain has recorded another 864 deaths related to coronavirus, the highest in one day, as the total number of deaths acro...

Saudi Arabia has asked Muslims planning to take part in the Hajj pilgrimage to delay booking amid uncertainty over the c...

An estimated 350,000 displaced people across Myanmar are "sitting in the path of a public health catastrophe", says righ...

Rising temperatures may be having a profound physical impact on one of the world's favourite songbirds. Researchers in S...

The videoconferencing app Zoom has come under fresh high-level scrutiny as its popularity soars during the coronavirus p...

Stock markets around the world suffered historic losses in the first three months of the year amid a massive sell-off ti...

The current coronavirus outbreak is the biggest challenge for the world since World War Two, UN Secretary General Antón...

Apple has purchased the weather predicting app Dark Sky and plans to shut down the Android and Wear OS versions. Dark Sky...

The US has offered to lift crippling sanctions against Venezuela if its leaders agree to a power-sharing deal. Under the ...

The captain of a US aircraft carrier carrying more than 4,000 crew has called for urgent help to halt a coronavirus outb...

A Pakistani journalist who fled the country to escape death threats has gone missing in Sweden where he was granted poli...

Facebook and Twitter have deleted posts from world leaders for spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. Facebook d...

Officials across India are searching for hundreds of people who attended a religious event in the capital that has set o...

An elderly couple have become local celebrities amid the coronavirus outbreak for their daily cross-border meeting. Inga ...

About three out of four Americans are now, or about to be, under some form of lockdown, as more states tighten measures ...

The financial impact of coronavirus will stop almost 24 million people from escaping poverty in East Asia and the Pacifi...

The owner of video chat and game app Houseparty is offering a $1m (£810,750) reward for evidence the company was the vi...

Eighteen firefighters and their guide have died while battling a forest fire in China's Sichuan province, state media ha...