A London rail rider allegedly broke a United Kingdom health service worker’s face after he asked the passenger’s group why they weren't wearing coronavirus masks, police said.
Pope Francis has blamed “this lady called COVID” for forcing him to keep his distance again from the faithful during his general audience, which was far smaller than usual amid soaring coronavirus infections in Italy.
Turkish officials on Wednesday railed against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo over its cover-page cartoon mocking Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and accused the publication of sowing “the seeds of hatred and animosity.”
Typhoon Molave slammed into Vietnam with destructive force Wednesday, killing at least two people and sinking two fishing boats with 26 crew members in what was feared to be the most powerful storm to hit the country in 20 years.
The recent surge of coronavirus cases across Europe has brought renewed calls for a second lockdown to curb the spread of the disease before it's too late.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered a nationwide mask mandate as a second wave of coronavirus cases put the country’s medical system under a severe strain.
Iran has begun construction at its Natanz nuclear facility, satellite images released Wednesday show, just as the U.N.'s nuclear agency acknowledged Tehran is building an underground advanced centrifuge assembly plant after its last one exploded in a reported sabotage attack last summer.
Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson condemned New Zealand's institution of coronavirus quarantine "camps" on "The Ingraham Angle" Tuesday.
Scientists discovered a massive detached coral reef that is larger than the empire state building off the coast of northeastern Australia this month, the Schmidt Ocean Institute announced.
A security guard at the Manchester Ariana Grande concert where a terror attack killed 22 and injured more than 100 in 2017 said he did not approach the bomber in the United Kingdom city “over racism fears,” according to local reports.
Last August, the now 29-year-old Texas native was arrested amid a night out in the Russian capital and was later charged with “assaulting and endangering the lives of the two police officers."
Protesters turned out by the hundreds in Turin, Milan and other Italian cities and towns Monday to vent their anger, sometimes violently, at the latest pandemic restrictions that force restaurants and cafes to close early and shutter cinemas, gyms and other leisure venues.
A powerful bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning, killing at least seven students and wounding 112 others, police and a hospital spokesman said.