India's iconic monument Taj Mahal has shut down to halt the spread of the coronavirus, officials say.The culture ministry said tens of thousands visit the "monument of love" every day and it was "imperative

Turkey has identified 12 new cases of the coronavirus on Monday, bringing its total to 18, marking the highest daily rise since the country announced its first case last week.Health Minister

Spain and France have announced sweeping new restrictions on daily life in a bid to contain the coronavirus outbreaks in their countries, as the Philippines seals off Manila in the most aggressive response

Google on Friday said its sister company Verily is working with the federal government to build a tool to help people find coronavirus testing. Verily, the life sciences arm of Google parent company

Las Vegas wedding with an Elvis impersonator: Canceled. A 3,500-kilometer (2,200-mile) trans-America road trip, a voyage of a lifetime that took months to prepare: On ice, too.The travel ban announced

New York's governor has announced that troops will be sent into a town north of the city in an attempt to contain the spread of the coronavirus.The National Guard will deliver food to quarantined individuals

A former close ally of TurkishRecep Tayyip Erdogan has formally begun the process to launch a political party, saying Turkey needed a "fresh start" and calling for reforms to strengthen the rule of law

The first hearing in the trial of four fugitive suspects in the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 was set to start in Amsterdam on Monday, more than five years after the plane was downed in

A fire has ripped through a refugee shelter on the Greek island of Lesbos as tensions over a surge in migration from Turkey continue to rise.Flames engulfed the One Happy Family centre, near the island's

Mobile operator Vodafone is backing a satellite venture that aims to broadcast a mobile broadband network from space, potentially boosting its 4G - and in the future 5G - coverage for users without the

A crowdfunding project promises to build a mini-drone for a bargain price, delivering high-quality video. But production falls way behind schedule and then the poor quality of video in a demo has backers

Refugees arriving on the island of Lesbos on Sunday told stories suggesting the Turkish government co-opted people smugglers in its policy of ushering asylum seekers west in Europe.A group of 28 Syrians

The IOTA Foundation has released a seed migration tool that will allow users to move their cryptocurrency to safety. The app is a response to a recent vulnerability in IOTA's Trinity wallet.Essentially,

Chinese phone maker Vivo announced its Apex 2020 concept phone on Friday via press release after its originally scheduled launch at Mobile World Congress was cancelled due to coronavirus concerns.The

The remains of a teenage boy have been found in the lion enclosure of a Lahore zoo, a day after he went missing.Officials said they are investigating how Muhammad Bilal, 17, made it over the fence and

Italian man suffering from frostbite and four other tourists were rescued in the Alaska wilderness after visiting an abandoned bus that has become a lure for adventurers since it was featured in the "Into

The prime minister of East Timor has sent a letter of resignation to the president, he said on Tuesday, as the tiny Southeast Asian nation faces new political instability after the collapse of a coalition

Quaden Bayles, a 9-year-old Australian boy who won the support of well-wishers around the world after being bullied for his dwarfism, has led out a rugby league team in front of thousands of cheering

An Interior Ministry official said a list of candidates affiliated with the Guards led in the capital. Lists linked to hardliners captured 83 seats in towns and villages across the country following Friday's

Sterling rose against both the dollar and euro on Friday after British factories reported the fastest rise in output for 10 months in February, assuaging some fears over the economy as Britain prepares