However, the recovery rate is rising and now stands at 60.9 percent. With 425 deaths in 24 hours, the number of deaths due to COVID-19 stands at 19,693, as per government data. This compares well to 3...

Although TikTok has been around for a while, it became popular during the lockdown, with millions of people uploading short clips of themselves dancing to their favorite songs or lipsynching to them...

The Indian Council of Medical Research on Saturday issued a statement after health experts voiced apprehension over the medical body's plan to launch a COVID-19 vaccine by August 15 this year, stating...

Giménez tweeted that he will sign an emergency order that shuts down all "restaurants (except for takeout and delivery services), along with ballrooms, banquet facilities, party venues, gyms and fitne...

Flawed as the Electoral College system may be, at the oral arguments in May, the justices expressed concern about tinkering with laws that bind the delegates to vote for the popular vote victor in the...

Others sanctioned include two high-ranking Myanmar military generals involved in the "systematic and brutal violence" against the Rohingya people and other ethnic minorities. "We will not let those wh...

She said that led to an explosion of cases, citing crowded nightclubs with free champagne and people unwittingly spreading the virus at large family gatherings. Gallego faulted the Federal Emergency M...

The European and Commonwealth medallist and her partner, fellow athlete Ricardo dos Santos, were stopped while in a vehicle with their baby in London and fear they were targeted because they are bla...

With 16 fatalities being reported on July 5, the district's death toll has reached 869. With another big single-day jump in coronavirus cases, India's COVID-19 tally crossed the seven lakh-mar...

Harvard University's plan for the upcoming 2020-2021 school year is drawing huge backlash online. "Parties will be prohibited". The statement detailed the cost of attendance, noting that tuition wi...

Iranian officials had initially sought to downplay last Thursday's fire, calling it an "incident" that affected an "industrial shed". Israel also maintains a series of larger Amos communications satel...

Why it matters: Several U.S. colleges and universities - most recently Harvard - have announced plans to move most or all courses online this fall due to coronavirus concerns. Students can transfer...

Christian Cooper never appears to come closer to her. Appearing to become hysterical, she then adds: "Please send the cops immediately!" Amy Cooper's 911 call was seen by many as a stark exampl...

Highs: 90 to 95. Tomorrow: Mostly Sunny to Partly Cloudy, Isolated Shower/Storm. For the next several days, at least, this persistent hot, muggy weather pattern shows no sign of relenting. Even ...

Victorian Chief Medical Officer Professor Brett Sutton stated that while the majority of cases are confined to the various "hot zones" that are "very much in that north-west corridor" of Melbourne, ...

In Aug. 2019, Epstein officially died by suicide in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell was transferred Monda...

Even the head of India's clinical research group for COVID-19 and director of the premier All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi , Dr. The IASc said: "The Academy believes that any has...

Victoria recorded 127 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday. Australia's death toll has also risen to 106. The move will, however, likely be a blow to Australia's economic recovery as it heads into its f...

President Trump and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador are set to meet in Washington Wednesday to commemorate the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) taking effect, but Trudeau wi...

Summer Taylor was rushed to Harborview Hospital and later died of their injuries. Kelete, who was alone in a white Jaguar, fled the scene after hitting the protesters , Trooper Chase Van Cleave ...

The closure will, however, likely be a blow to Australia's economic recovery as it heads into its first recession in almost three decades. In addition to the complete lockdown orders, more than 30 M...

Residents were informed of the lockdown around an hour before the confinement which is due to come into effect at 12 p.m. local time (1000GMT). The spike in cases was reported in the county of Segri...

One of the men is understood to have got into difficulties while the other man raised the alarm and went back in to the water to help his brother. "Something obviously went wrong somewhere and it lo...

Customs officers at Indian ports have held back shipments from China and sought additional clearances after deadly clashes at the disputed Himalayan border last month. This was revealed by China's new...

Krauss said there was roughly 300 people at the scene when the statue was taken down. "After it toppled over the statue broke into several pieces, which were then dragged across the plaza and dumped...

Swissmedic, the agency that oversees the use of medicaments in Switzerland, took days to fast-track approval of the drug, which is produced under the brand name Veklury by USA biopharmaceutical compan...

Local resident Akintunde Oladele was in the area and recorded the group passing him. The Ku Klux Klan, a hate group that was formed by Confederate Army veterans and has a history of lynchings and terr...

Robert Trump, the younger brother of Donald Trump , applied for a temporary restraining order against Mary Trump and Simon & Schuster to prevent them from publishing, printing, or distributing any pa...

Onlooker Farida said: 'My children wanted to get in the carousel, and we heard screaming, then I saw the lady, who was strong, fall. Responders attempted to resuscitate the woman but were not able t...

According to reports, bricks and other missiles were thrown at police when they tried to speak to the group, forcing them to back away before more officers arrived. The incident came a week after 140 ...

This revelation comes at a time when World Health Organization is accused of being hand in glove with China and not disclosing crucial facts. The WHO says it also received open-source intelligence sug...

The rocket landed near a house and "resulted in the injury of a child and damage to the house", security officials wrote . The latest attacks came hours after the U.S. Embassy area so far this year...

Tou Thao, the former officer who was seen on camera standing in front of Derek Chauvin as he kneeled on Floyd's neck, has been released from jail after posting bail, MPR News reports. The former offic...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the decision to ease the lockdown is based on the scientific evidence that people are "appreciably less likely now to be in close proximity" with someone with the v...

The WHO says investigators exploring these drugs as treatments for hospitalized COVID-19 patients have been asked to stop the trials with immediate effect. "[It] does not affect the possible evaluatio...