As US coronavirus cases surge and deaths topped 130,000, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo harshly criticized the White House's COVID-19 response Monday, accusing President Donald Trump of "enabling" the virus and downplaying its threat. Infections are on the rise in 39 states, according to a...

More than 200 scientists have called for the World Health Organization and others to acknowledge that the coronavirus can spread in the air - a change that could alter some of the current measures being taken to stop the pandemic. In a letter published this week in the journal Clinical...

Russian officials and the Orthodox church urged caution Monday over calls in Turkey to alter the status of the Hagia Sophia, the historic former cathedral in Istanbul. Turkey's top court is debating whether one of the architectural wonders of the world can be re-designated as a mosque, a...

Four Syrian refugees, including three children, have died after falling down in a 65 foot deep well in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, activists said Sunday. The tragic incident began when three Syrian children fell into an abandoned well in the Shalfa district near...