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Public health authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Sunday announced 136 new cases of a deadly strain of coronavirus. Officials in the...

Iran agreed Saturday to send the black boxes to Ukraine from the passenger jet the Islamic Republic unintentionally shot down last week. Hassan Rezaeifer,...

Torrential downpours and flash floods drenched much of bushfire-ravaged eastern Australia on Friday, providing a second day of much-needed relief to...

Khagendra Thapa Magar, the world's shortest man died on Friday night at a hospital in Pokhara, Nepal, said his family. He was 27 years old. At a height...

Manila: Thousands of people were being evacuated south of the Philippine capital, Manila, on Sunday as Taal Volcano began to send clouds of ash and stone...

Muscat: Bangladesh, when formed in 1971, began with a negative GDP growth rate of -14%. Now things are looking good for the country, as it now has an...

Australian insurers put their four-month bill for bushfire losses logged so far at around 700 million Australian dollars (roughly $480 million or €430...

President Moon Jae-in has said South Korea must strengthen its relationship with Pyongyang, and has called for fresh talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong...

A mysterious respiratory illness that has infected dozens of people in the central Chinese city of Wuhan is not the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)...

Indonesian rescue teams flew aid to remote districts around Jakarta on Saturday, as the government announced that the death toll had risen to at least...