Britain’s Johnson stable as lockdown extension looms By AFP British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Photo: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday began the fourth day in…
France to extend virus lockdown, Macron to address nation By AFP France is to further extend a lockdown ordered to slow the spread of the coronavirus, with President Emmanuel Macron…
Ethiopia declares state of emergency to fight coronavirus By AFP Nebiyou Asnake, Medical Director of a health facility, speaks during an interview with AFP on the COVID-19 coronavirus at the…
Paris Bans Daytime Jogging Amid Coronavirus Lockdown BY MICHAEL BAMIDELE Paris ban Jogging | Image: Getty Images/BBC France’s capital, Paris has banned daytime jogging as part of a renewed measure…
Liberia to lock down capital over virus threat By AFP Liberian president George Weah. PHOTO: AFP Liberian President George Weah declared a state of emergency in the West African country…
UK man jailed for stealing hospital face masks By AFP A handout photograph released by Britain’s Metropolitan Police in London on April 8, 2020 shows Lerun Hussain (34) in a…
Bernie Sanders ends his US presidential bid By Editor (FILES) In this file photo Democratic White House hopeful Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders arrives to speak during a campaign rally at…
Erdogan under pressure as coronavirus cases spike in Turkey By AFP An excavator and engineers work at Istanbul’s former International airport, know as Ataturk International airport on April 8, 2020…
UK driver pleads guilty to manslaughter of 39 found dead in truck By AFP A British lorry driver on Wednesday pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 39 people found dead…
Wuhan finally emerges from its long lockdown, but full recovery will take time A pilot waves from the cockpit window as the first domestic flight to leave Wuhan since the…
Johnny Depp Narrates How His Finger Was Cut Off During Fight With Ex-Wife Amber Heard BY MICHAEL BAMIDELE Amber Heard and Johnny Depp | Credit: John Phillips (Getty) American actor…
Opera Star Bocelli To Sing From Empty Milan Cathedral On Easter Sunday Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli, one of the world’s most famous tenors, will perform from Milan’s empty Duomo…
Fraudster Tries To Sell World’s Tallest Statue For $4 Billion Amid Lockdown BY MICHAEL BAMIDELE The world’s tallest statue – Statue of Unity, India. | Photo: REUTERS/Amit Dave There has…
Spain daily virus deaths rise to 743 after drop By AFP Patient in ambulance arriving at the hospital photo:Getty images Spain’s daily coronavirus death toll shot up to 743 on…
Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham steps down: White House By AFP Stephanie Grisham Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump’s chief spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham, who never held a single press…
Iran says virus deaths rise 133 to 3,872 By AFP Iranian women wearing protective face masks against the novel coronavirus, walk in a market in the capital Tehran, on April…
Putin says ‘optimism and sense of humour’ will help Johnson recover By AFP Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the nation at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on April 2,…
Cardinal Pell freed after winning appeal over child sex abuse By AFP Australian Cardinal George Pell leaves after being released from Barwon Prison near Anakie, some 70 kilometres west of…
Body of missing Kennedy family member found By AFP (FILES) In this file photo David McKean, Maeve Kennedy Townsend Mckean and their children (son Gideon 2R) attend the Robert F.…
British PM Johnson in intensive care with coronavirus By AFP A still image from footage released by 10 Downing Street, the office of the British prime minister, on April 3,…
