More than 224,000 people around the world have lost their lives from the novel coronavirus as of Wednesday, according to data compiled by US-based Johns Hopkins University. The university's study found 224,562 fatalities caused by COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the virus, as...

Britain's ambassador to the United States Wednesday backed calls for an investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus and the response of the World Health Organization, but said the first priority should be containing the outbreak. The comments came after Britain's foreign affairs...

GlaxoSmithKline, the world's largest vaccine maker, said the global push to develop an immunization against the coronavirus would not lead to widely available products before the second half of next year. "If things go right ... to get to scale of manufacturing in the hundreds of millions...

At least 36 people were killed Wednesday when one of South Korea's worst fires in years broke out at a construction site near the capital, officials said. They said the death toll could rise because more people were believed to be trapped inside the warehouse that was under construction in...