North Korea has fired two projectiles into the sea, according to South Korea's military. It said the projectiles appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles. They were launched early on Saturday from Pyongan province towards the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan.

DHAKA: Nearly two months after reporting its first novel coronavirus case, Singapore confirmed its first two deaths due to the virus on Saturday (March 21). The Singaporean Ministry of Health (MOH) said those who died were a 75-year-old female Singaporean and a 64-year-old male

Governor Gavin Newsom told Californians they should only leave their homes when necessary during the pandemic. He earlier estimated more than half of the 40 million people in his state would contract Covid-19 in just the next two months. The virus has claimed 205 lives in the US and

India executed four men on Friday for the gang-rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge nationwide protests and international revulsion. The four were hanged before dawn at Tihar Jail in the Indian capital, the head of the prison, Sandeep Goel said.  

The sample of a 72-year-old man, who returned from Germany via Italy a fortnight ago and died at a hospital in Punjab's Nawanshahr district after severe chest pain, has tested positive for novel coronavirus, senior officials said on Thursday. It is the fourth confirmed death from the

The number of people dying from coronavirus in Italy has risen by 475 in one day to nearly 3,000 - the biggest increase since the outbreak. There are a total of 35,713 confirmed cases in the country, with more than 4,000 having successfully recovered. Lombardy, the worst-hit region,

Australia and New Zealand’s borders will be shut to anyone who is not a citizen or resident, in an escalation of both countries’ efforts to tackle the coronavirus. “At no time in New Zealand’s history has a power like this been used, and I recognise how extraordinary it is,”

Pakistan has reported its first two deaths from the novel coronavirus in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, provincial Health Minister Taimur Khan Jhagra confirmed. The fist fatality involves a 50-year-old man from Mardan who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia, while

The novel coronavirus has infected at least 200,000 people and killed at least 8,000 around the world as of March 18. The World Health Organization declared it a pandemic on March 11. Europe is the new epicenter of the disease. The disease is also infecting increasing numbers of

The deadly coronavirus has now hit all 50 states in the US as West Virginia reported its first case of the infection on Tuesday. Announcing West Virginia's first Covid-19 patient, Governor Jim Justice said: "We knew this was coming." New York City said it was considering a

Ending speculations about deliberate genetic engineering of new coronavirus, scientists from the Scripps Research Institute, a non-profit research organization, have claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic is not from a lab-created virus but has a natural origin. The novel SARS-CoV-2

A 64-year-old man - who had contracted coronavirus infection - has died in Maharashtra, the state that has reported maximum cases of the highly contagious illness in India.  This is the third death in the country linked to coronavirus or COVID-19, declared a pandemic by the World

New York City is closing schools on Monday, and restaurants, bars and other venues a day later in an effort to halt the spread of the deadly coronavirus. Mayor Bill de Blasio said he decided to act because "our city is facing an unprecedented threat, and we must respond with a wartime

Australia's prime minister has ordered a 14-day self-isolation for anyone arriving in the country to try to halt the spread of the coronavirus. "This is very important," Scott Morrison said at a briefing, adding that the measure would take effect from midnight on Sunday (13:00

US President Donald Trump has tested negative for the coronavirus, the White House physician has said. "This evening I received confirmation that the test is negative," Sean Conley said in a statement on Saturday. Mr Trump underwent a test days after hosting a meeting at his Florida

Ten more people in the UK have died after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths in the UK to 21. The UK's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said all of the latest to die were patients in "at-risk" groups. All patients NHS England gave

New Zealand's PM has said nearly everyone entering the country from midnight on Sunday must self-isolate to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Jacinda Ardern said the new measure also included returning New Zealanders. The only exemption is for small Pacific islands with no

Nasser Shabani, a senior commander in Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has died from the novel coronavirus, Iranian media reported on Friday. The news came as Foreign Minister Javad Zarif confirmed that confirmed cases of COVID-19 had exceeded 11,000, with at least

Madrid has decreed that all non-vital commerce will stop in the city, the region of Spain worst affected by coronavirus, as of Saturday. The decree, issued by the regional government, orders the closure of cinemas, discos, restaurants, concert halls, theatres, casinos, gaming centres,

A 68-year-old woman from Delhi has been confirmed as the second Indian to die from the coronavirus. The woman, who had underlying health conditions, is thought to have been infected by her son who travelled to Switzerland and Italy last month. India's first fatality from the