Sri Lanka has reported its first confirmed coronavirus case, a Chinese woman in her 40s. ....

Chinese health authorities on Tuesday said that the death toll due to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak in the country has climbed to 106, with 4,515 confirmed cases in 30 provincial-level regions. ....

Three people suspected to be infected with the novel cornavirus have been admitted at the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital here, an official confirmed on Tuesday. ....

Visiting WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday said that the global health body was confident in China's epidemic prevention and control ability, amid the novel coronavirus outbreak that has claimed the lives of 106 people in the country. ....

The Taliban on Monday claimed that it had shot down an American military plane in Deh Yak district of Ghazni province in Afghanistan, killing everyone on board, a media report said. ....

An Iranian passenger plane on Monday ended up in the middle of a highway after reportedly skidding off the runway during a botched landing. ....

The Iraqi caretaker Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on Sunday condemned the rocket attack on the US embassy in the Green Zone in central Baghdad. ....

Four Katyusha rockets on Sunday landed near the US embassy in the heavily fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad, capital of Iraq, an Interior Ministry official said. ....

China has started developing a vaccine against the rapidly-spreading deadly novel coronavirus strain that has claimed 56 lives and infected nearly 2,000 people in the country. ....

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Turkey on Friday, leaving at least 18 people dead and more than 500 others injured. ....