China's coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan on Friday admitted missteps in tallying its death toll, and abruptly raised the count by 50 percent following growing world doubts about Chinese transparency. The United States has led the charge in questioning China's handling of the pandemic...

China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday the World Health Organization has said there is no evidence that the coronavirus that has infected more than 2 million people globally was made in a lab. Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian made the remark in response to a question about accusations...

The world body also said in a risk report that nearly 369 million children across 143 countries who normally rely on school meals for a reliable source of daily nutrition have now been forced to look elsewhere. “We must act now on each of these threats to our children,” U.N....

The number of people who have died from the novel coronavirus worldwide now exceeds 140,000, according to data released Thursday from Johns Hopkins University. In crossing the grim milestone, the university tally found 140,773 fatalities, and nearly 2.1 million infections. In all, over...