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The world has seen a record rise in coronavirus cases over a 24-hour period, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.

Nine inner-city tower blocks, home to 3,000 people, have been placed in "hard lockdown" after a surge in coronavirus infections in Melbourne, Australia.

Donald Trump has claimed 99% of coronavirus cases are "totally harmless" after a surge of infections in the US.

We were shouted at for wearing masks when we turned up outside Houston City Hall.

A former British spy chief says he wants a more open debate on the origin of the coronavirus pandemic and warns against dismissing as conspiracy the idea that it might have come from a laboratory.

Two people have died and eight are injured following a shooting at a nightclub in the US, authorities have said.

Lewis Hamilton and most of Formula One's 20 drivers took a knee on the starting grid before the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix, although six chose not to join in.

In the inky darkness, a tiny body wiggles in the sand.

More than 200,000 people in northeast Spain have been put back into an enforced lockdown following several new outbreaks of coronavirus.

The drive from Norilsk airport to the city takes you past mile after mile of crumbling, Soviet-era factories.