WHO found no evidence coronavirus started in lab, China says

China's foreign ministry Thursday told reporters the World Health Organization has said there is no evidence the coronavirus outbreak came from a laboratory, according to a report.

China didn't warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days

Top Chinese officials secretly determined they were likely facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus in mid-January, ordering preparations even as they downplayed it in public.

A year after blaze, Notre Dame restoration halted by virus

Notre Dame Cathedral stands crippled and alone, locked in a dangerous web of warped scaffolding one year after a cataclysmic fire gutted its interior, toppled its famous spire and horrified the world.

Global coronavirus cases top 2 million, according to Johns Hopkins

At least 2 million people worldwide have been infected with the novel coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins.

19 killed in clash between drug gangs in northern Mexico

A big shootout between rival drug gangs killed 19 people in the northern Mexico border state of Chihuahua, state prosecutors' office said Saturday.  

Pakistan court overturns conviction in death of Daniel Pearl

A Pakistani court on Thursday overturned the murder conviction of a British Pakistani man found guilty of the 2002 kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

Italy is 2nd country to surpass China's coronavirus case total

The country now has 86,498 cases, surpassing China to record the grim distinction of the second-most infections in the world, behind the U.S.

British PM Boris Johnson tests positive for coronavirus

Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

Every night, Vancouver residents applaud health care workers from balconies

Vancouver’s West End erupts in applause every night in honor of the medical professionals on the front lines of the world’s fight with COVID-19.

Robert Levinson, retired FBI agent, presumed dead in Iranian custody over a decade after disappearance

Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent and private investigator who disappeared from an Iranian island in 2007, is believed to have died in Iranian custody, his family revealed in a statement Wednesday.

Strangers on a tropical vacation work together to safely evacuate island under coronavirus lockdown

Strangers on a tropical paradise vacation found themselves locked down by one nation’s fears of the coronavirus. But, with the help of a simple communication app, known as WhatsApp, and a global security company, all 144 new best friends made it safely home from Honduras this past Sunday.

Over 1.5 billion globally told to stay home to avoid spreading coronavirus

Warning that the outbreak continues to accelerate, the head of the World Health Organization called on countries to take strong, coordinated action.

Americans stranded in Peru as border closes due to COVID-19

Hundreds of Americans are stranded in Peru as the Peruvian government closes the border due to COVID-19. 

Global coronavirus cases top 300,000, with 13,000 deaths

The coronavirus pandemic took an increasingly bleak toll Saturday in the U.S. and Europe, producing staggering caseloads in New York and Italy and setting off a desperate scramble to set up thousands of additional hospital beds as the disease notched another grim advance.

US-Canada border closing temporarily to nonessential travel

President Donald Trump says the U.S. and Canada have agreed to temporarily close their shared border to nonessential travel due to the coronavirus pandemic.

EU chief proposes 30-day ban on nonessential entry into bloc

The European Union's top official on Monday proposed a 30-day ban on anyone entering the bloc unless their travel is essential.