A human infection with the H10N3 strain of avian influenza has been found in China's Jiangsu province, the National Health Commission (NHC) said on Tuesday. ....

The Covid-19 pandemic has proved that the world needs a pandemic treaty to strengthen both the World Health Organization (WHO) and global health security, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday. ....

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that Covid-19 variants of concern will be known by letters of the Greek alphabet, saying it will help avoid stigmatising countries where they first appear. ....

Around 350,000 people in Germany are understood to suffer from long-term symptoms of a Covid-19 infection, Minister of Education and Research Anja Karliczek told journalists here on Monday. ....

A British government advisory scientist warned on Monday that Britain could be in the early stages of a third Covid-19 wave as the country reported another 3,383 cases. ....

UK PM Boris Johnson has married his fiance Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at the Westminster Cathedral in front of about 30 close friends and family members, a media report said on Sunday. In its report, Daily Mail said that the 56-year-old Johnson exchanged vows with Symonds, 33, on Saturday morning, becoming the first Prime Minister to marry in office since Lord Liverpool wed Mary Chester in 1822. ....

UK PM Boris Johnson has married his fiance Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at the Westminster Cathedral in front of about 30 close friends and family members, a media report said on Sunday. ....

A media outlet late on Saturday released images of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi while in the custody of the authorities in the Caribbean nation of Dominica, where the billionaire mysteriously surfaced this week after going missing from Antigua and Barbuda, his home for the last three years. ....

In yet another act of brutality, a 16-year-old teenage boy was gang raped Pakistan's Dera Ismail Khan city by at least five people, who also filmed and uploaded the video of the incident on social media. ....

An Indian-origin man, who saved at least one person in a California mass shooting, was among the nine people killed by a railway worker who killed himself in San Jose, according to officials. ....