Oil prices slumped on Friday after China’s decision to omit an economic growth target for 2020 renewed concerns that the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic will...
School closures by authorities to stem the spread of the COVID-19 scourge have left some 60 per cent of the world’s children without education, according to...
A former White House butler, who worked for 11 presidents in a career that spanned five decades, has died of coronavirus aged 91. It was Jackie...
The global outbreak of the novel coronavirus has infected over five million people across the world. The global total cases now stand at 5,090,064. This is...
Cyclone Amphan has made landfall in eastern India and Bangladesh, killing at least 15 people as it lashed coastal areas with ferocious wind and rain. Trees...
An Italian woman has won a painting by Pablo Picasso, worth about €1m (£900,000; $1.1m), in a raffle after being given the ticket as a gift....
The US Senate has passed a bill that could block some Chinese companies from selling shares on American stock exchanges. It would require overseas firms to...
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Wednesday that the coronavirus pandemic is a long way from being over amid the largest daily rise...
There will be no face-to-face lectures at the University of Cambridge over the course of the next academic year due to coronavirus, it has been announced....
Up to 60m people will be pushed into “extreme poverty” by the coronavirus warns the president of the World Bank. David Malpass said the bank expects...