Leader of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna party Mahinda Rajapaksa took oath as the nation's new Prime Minister on Sunday after his party secured a landslide victory in the recently concluded parliamentary election. ....

Three senior officials at the Port of Beirut, where two deadly explosions earlier this week killed over 150 people, have been arrested. ....

US President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have agreed to send immediate aid to Lebanon in the wake of the two deadly blasts in capital Beirut which killed over 150 people. ....

US President Donald Trump has claimed that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is "against God", the media reported. ....

The Bacille Calmette-Guerin or BCG vaccine, originally made against tuberculosis, has a general stimulating effect on the immune system and is therefore effective against Covid-19, say researchers. ....

US President Donald Trump has issued two executive orders prohibiting transactions in the country with the Chinese companies that own WeChat and TikTok. ....

The overall number of global coronavirus cases has crossed the 19 million mark, while the deaths have increased to over 713,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University. ....

Facebook and Twitter have removed a video clip from an interview in which US President Donald Trump claimed children were "almost immune" to coronavirus. ....

A massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the city's port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. More than 135 peoplehave been reported dead and over 5,000 injured, with bodies buried in the rubble, officials said. ....

A remarkable soundbite -- "It is what it is" -- from a 37-minute US President Donald Trump interview telecast on HBO is emerging as a bizarre anthem for the catastrophic American experience with the coronavirus pandemic as the country's caseload spirals towards the 5 million mark. ....