As the number of novel coronavirus cases in India nears 7 million, the country's Central Bank projected that the economy would contract by 9.5% this fiscal year. After a meeting of India's monetary policy committee on Friday morning, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI),...

The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this year to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) for its efforts to combat hunger, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday. With the world in danger of a hunger crisis, the Nobel committee praised the WFP for "acting as a driving force in efforts to...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia to Moscow for peace talks Friday.     “The president of Russia is issuing a call to halt the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh on humanitarian grounds in order to exchange dead bodies...

Britain on Thursday recorded a further 17,540 cases of the novel coronavirus across the country over the past 24 hours – an increase of 3,000, or around 25% – compared to yesterday. It was a new daily record for confirmed cases since the previous peak in the spring. According to...