China is rushing to build a new hospital in a staggering 10 days to treat patients at the epicentre of a deadly virus outbreak that has stricken hundreds of people, state media reported Friday. The facility in the central city of Wuhan is expected to be in use by February 3 to serve a rising number…

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned yesterday of chaos in Libya unless peace is quickly established, as he hosted German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The two leaders inaugurated a new Turkish-German University in Istanbul, where Erdogan expressed his concerns about the Libyan conflict.…

Carbon emissions from the wildfires that have ravaged much of southeast Australia are a major driver of what are predicted to be record worldwide atmospheric CO2 levels throughout 2020, Britain’s Met Office said Friday. The annual rise of planet-warming CO2 levels is anticipated to be among the…

The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea challenging the imposition of the National Security Act or NSA in few states and the national capital amid anti-CAA protests. A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Indira Banerjee said that it cannot pass a blanket order with regard to imposition of…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was to receive Britain’s EU divorce agreement after Brussels’ top two officials signed it at a closed door ceremony in the dead of night yesterday. Officials from both sides accompanied the document across the Channel to London, where Johnson was to add…

Vandals set fire to mosque in east Jerusalem AP, Jerusalem Israeli police said yesterday they are investigating after a “room was ignited” in a mosque on the outskirts of Jerusalem and Hebrew graffiti was found on an outside wall. The graffiti was hard to make out but appears to have been…

The UN has called for international help to fight huge swarms of desert locusts sweeping through east Africa. A spokesman for the UN’s Food and…

Researchers say they’ve mimicked the voice of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy by recreating much of its vocal tract using medical scanners, 3D printing…