New Zealand recorded its first coronavirus death in more than three months on Friday when a man in his 50s succumbed to the virus. Health officials said the man was part of a second-wave cluster of infections that emerged in Auckland last month, ending a spell of 102 days free of community...

Joe Biden told residents of Kenosha, Wisconsin, that recent turmoil following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, could help Americans confront centuries of systemic racism, drawing a sharp contrast with President Donald Trump amid a reckoning that has galvanized the nation....

Near Madrid airport, an army of cranes works round the clock to build a new pandemic hospital which is expected to open in November. But a second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak is already under way in Spain, straining the capital's public health care system. Around 400 builders have been...

Oil futures dropped on Friday, with prices on both sides of the Atlantic heading for their biggest weekly declines since June, as lacklustre demand and ample fuel supplies offset support from a weaker dollar. Brent crude LCOc1 fell 33 cents, or, 0.8% to $43.74 a barrel by 0630 GMT. The...