Busy cities around the world have been deserted, as many countries go on lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus. An aerial view shows an empty white-tiled area…

As Spain and Italy struggle in their battle against the coronavirus, Spanish and Italian doctors have been falling ill while treating infected patients. This, along with a shortage of medical…

All over the UK, patients are finding their nonemergency surgical appointments cancelled as hospitals prepare for a spike in coronavirus cases to ration much-needed personal protective equipment,…

Egypt will impose a two-week, nightly curfew in the Arab world's most-populous country in an effort to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, its prime minister announced Tuesday as the…

With masks, ventilators and political goodwill in desperately short supply, more than one-fifth of the world’s population was ordered or urged to stay in their homes Monday at the start of what could…

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called Monday for an immediate cease-fire in conflicts around the world to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. The U.N. chief said: “It is time to put armed…

Magdi Yacoub was born into a Coptic Christian family on 16 November 1935 in Bilbeis, Al Sharqia, Egypt. He studied at Cairo University and qualified as a doctor in 1957. He…

OnFebruary 24, after theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) warned thatthe United Statesshould prepare for widespread domestic transmission of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19,…

Earlier this month, a video circulated around social media showing a man licking the shrine of Ali ibn Musa Al-Reza stating that he would “eat the coronavirus” thereby ensuring that visitors of the…

While much of the world has ground to a halt amid the sweeping scourge of the coronavirus, another round of escalation has erupted between Tehran and Washington out of view of the public eye. Once…