It comes as a six-week-old baby was among the 332 deaths announced by NHS England.

It is rare for the Queen to give a national televised addressed so it is a measure of the times we are living through, writes Chris Ship.

Members of the remote community wrote to the secretary of state for Scotland asking for help on May 10, 1930.

Magician Roy Horn, best known as part of the Las Vegas performing duo of Siegfried & Roy, has died at the age of 75.

Officials have urged Britons to follow lockdown rules during the sunny weekend.

The United States has become the world leader in COVID-19 cases while posting its biggest spike in unemployment claims in history.

State governors like New York's Andrew Cuomo are making the big decisions on the coronavirus outbreak, and are providing a vivid contrast to Donald Trump.

It fell to the Japanese Prime Minister to make the heartbreaking but unavoidable decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics until next year.

Bernie Sanders has been called "selfish" for failing to "get out" of the presidential race but the senator from Vermont has given no indication he is going anywhere.

Coronavirus cases are rising rapidly in cities across the United States, with major hot spots emerging in Detroit, Miami, Chicago and New Orleans.

France reported 56,989 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, and the country's death toll is the fourth highest in the world at 4032.

The Philippine President's anti-drug campaign has resulted in thousands of extra-judicial killings. He's now turned his attention to the coronavirus pandemic.

As the televisual equivalent of a mood ring, the White House briefings are extremely useful. As a vehicle for delivering information, not so much.

The sight of voters waiting in long lines to cast ballots during a pandemic and poll workers wearing HAZMAT suits stunned many Americans.

The World Health Organisation's Director General said countries should avoid politicising the virus issue "if you don't want to have many more body bags".

We already know one thing about that pick: It would be a woman, as Biden pledged in a recent debate.

Taiwan has recorded 385 cases of COVID-19 to Australia's 6314. It began scrutinising and quarantining passengers on flights from Wuhan and Guangdong in December, implemented travel bans on China and introduced strict social-distancing measures in January.

China's government is putting on a show of sending aid to countries suffering from COVID-19, but undermining efforts to control the source of further pandemics.

Trump's decision to air the selectively edited video clips led major US television networks to quickly cut away from his daily coronavirus briefing. 

The toxic partisanship and gridlock that have defined recent American politics are re-emerging with vengeance amid the coronavirus pandemic.

In his 12-minute video statement, Obama did not mention Donald Trump by name, but delivered a scathing denunciation of the Republican Party.