International
Coronavirus: Divorce cases up in China
Divorce rates in China have risen significantly because 'couples are spending too much time together at home' during coronavirus self-isolation, according to register offices...
Top official carries Liberia’s first infection from abroad
A Liberian government official returning from Switzerland has tested positive for Coronavirus, becoming the country’s first confirmed case.Nathaniel Blama, the head of the Environmental...
Coronavirus: Why getting tested for COVID-19 can be painful
Reports are emerging that being tested for the new coronavirus can be painful.The respiratory illness has now killed five Australians with more than 310...
Coronavirus: First human trial for vaccine to start on March 16
The first participant in a clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus will receive an experimental dose on Monday, according...
Gas explosion: 17 dead, 50 buildings destroyed; rescue efforts underway [Video+Photos]
Rescue efforts are ongoing in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, after a gas pipeline exploded on Sunday, resulting in the death of at least 17 people. A spokesman...
Why Prince George and Princess Charlotte aren’t allowed best friends at school
Prince George and Princess Charlotte have extraordinary lives ahead of them as members of the Royal Family.As third and fourth in line to the...
Foreign couple kidnapped in Burkina Faso in 2018 ‘found alive’
A Canadian woman and her Italian partner kidnapped in Burkina Faso in December 2018 have been released to the United Nations' peacekeeping mission in...
Herbalists cash in over coronavirus fear
There is no known cure for the new coronavirus, but in the medicinal herbs souq in Tunis, anxious Tunisians are consulting with herbalists and...
Coronavirus: Supreme Court suspends proceedings
Supreme Court in Rwanda has issued a statement restricting face to face court activities as a precaution in the wake of the fast-spreading new...
Coronavirus: University of Ghana cancels lectures on all its campuses over a recorded case
The University of Ghana has cancelled lectures on all its campuses with immediate effect after a student tested positive for novel coronavirus.A statement signed...
AngloGold Ashanti confirms case of coronavirus at Obuasi Gold Mine
AngloGold Ashanti Ghana has confirmed an employee at its Obuasi Gold Mine in Ghana, has tested positive with the COVID-19 virus.The employee is a...
Coronavirus conference cancelled
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has cancelled a round-table conference called 'Doing Business Under Coronavirus' scheduled for Friday in New York due to the spread...
Rwanda confirms first coronavirus case; President Kagame cautions against panic
President Paul Kagame has called upon Rwandans to showcase discipline and not to panic in the wake of the country’s confirmation of its first...
Coronavirus: Rwanda closes churches, schools
Rwanda's Ministry of Health has released a statement asking it's citizens to close down all places of worship and educational facilities following the confirmation...
Just In: 6 coronavirus cases confirmed in Ghana so far [Video]
Dr Badu Sarkodie, the Director for Public Health at the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has admitted that there are four more new coronavirus cases,...
Coronavirus: Porn site offers Italians free access
Pornhub has offered free access to all its contents including its
premium services to people who live in Italy until April 3, amid
the nationwide lockdown due to the...
Coronavirus: T. D. Jakes cancels all church activities
Head pastor of The Potter’s House, a non-denominational American megachurch, has cancelled all church activities, gatherings, auxiliary ministries, including Sunday...
Newborn baby ‘tests positive’ for coronavirus
A newborn baby has reportedly been diagnosed with coronavirus in London, becoming the pandemic’s youngest victim.The child’s mother was reportedly rushed...
Coronavirus victim in Sudan dies
Sudan says a man in his 50s who died on Thursday in the capital, Khartoum, had coronavirus, confirming the country's first case....
Check out Bill Gates new job
Bill Gates said he’s stepping down from the board of Microsoft, the company he co-founded in 1975 and built into the world’s largest ...
Republic Bank honours Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
The Republic Bank Ghana has held a dinner in honour of Dr Keith Christopher Rowley, Prime Minister for Trinidad and Tobago.The dinner, according...
Azerbaijani govt closes down opposition office ‘over coronavirus fears’
Azerbaijan’s opposition D18 Movement have been expelled from their offices in Baku by police claiming they were attempting to combat the spread of...
Watch: How Russia used Ghanaians to manipulate US elections
An investigation by CNN has revealed how Russia allegedly employed Ghanaians, mostly about age 20 as trolls with social media accounts, targeted at manipulating...
Nigeria is now Coronavirus free as two patients recover fully
Nigeria is for now Coronavirus free after all of its two cases now test negative.Both first and second Coronavirus patients have now
fully recovered, according...
Frightened Prince Charles forgets Coronavirus greetings [photos+video]
Prince Charles shocked onlookers when he literally jumped in panic after almost forgetting the official coronavirus guidelines on shaking hands as he arrived for...
Wife of Canadian Prime Minister, tests positive for coronavirus
Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, will isolate himself for 14 days after his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, tested positive for coronavirus.Grégoire Trudeau has mild symptoms...
Coronavirus: Stonebwoy’s New York show postponed
Authorities in New York have issued drastic directives to curb the spread of the deadly coronavirus. This has compelled dancehall artiste, Stonebwoy, to suspend...
Doctors claim new coronavirus ‘may cause damage to a man’s testicles
Doctors in China have urged male coronavirus patients to test their fertility as soon as they recover because the infection may damage the function of their testicles.No study...
US congresswoman marries her political aide [photo]
US congresswoman Ilhan Omar has announced her marriage to her chief campaign fundraiser, Tim Mynett."Got married! From partners in politics to life partners, so...
MP pretends having coronavirus to test emergency helpline [watch]
A coronavirus phone operator left politicians in stitches after a Kenyan MP anonymously called the ministry of health hotline pretending to have symptoms during...
Coronavirus: Anxiety and confusion over testing
A group of first responders in Washington state, a scientist in California, a woman at an assisted living facility in Florida -- all worried...
Coronavirus: Uganda restricts travel from 16 countries including UK and US
Uganda has restricted visitors from some countries with what it terms high cases of coronavirus, including China, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, South Korea, and...
Italian medical chief dies from coronavirus
Italy’s
medical community is mourning the death of the head of the medical
association in the northern Italian region of Varese, Italy’s state-run
ANSA...
Islamic scholar who said coronavirus was Allah’s punishment tests positive
Prominent Iraqi Shia scholar, Hadi Al-Modarresi, has been diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, weeks after he claimed the deadly disease was undoubtedly "an act of Allah" against the Chinese for...
Woman with coronavirus explains what it’s really like
A woman with coronavirus has explained what it's really like to be diagnosed and suffer the symptoms of the deadly illness, and has issued...
Just In: Cristiano Ronaldo quarantined over deadly coronavirus
Cristiano Ronaldo is remaining in quarantine in his Madeira home after Juventus team-mate Daniele Rugani tested positive for coronavirus. The Portuguese star flew to his homeland to visit his...
Italian nurses battling coronavirus outbreak share photos of exhaustion
Italian nurses have shared photos showing themselves
bruised and exhausted in the fight against coronavirus, as some revealed their
faces have been rubbed raw by masks....
Togolese opposition leader faces coup plot allegation
Togo's National Assembly has summoned opposition leader Dr. Agbéyomé Messan Kodjo to the National Assembly on Wednesday, March 11 for allegedly plotting to overthrow...
Coronavirus: Trump halts travel from Europe to US
US President Donald Trump has announced sweeping new travel restrictions on Europe in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus.In a televised...
WHO declares coronavirus a global pandemic
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the worldwide outbreak of the new coronavirus as a pandemic, with more than 118,000 cases in...