Ash from a rumbling Philippine volcano has inspired an artist and instructor to paint watercolours using the grey powder that had covered the plants in her backyard.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to end a pact key to annual war games with American troops if the US does not restore the travel visa of an official who oversaw his drug war.

US President Donald Trump addressed the country’s biggest annual anti-abortion rally yesterday as members of the Senate sat in judgment just blocks away at his impeachment trial.

Prime Minister Imran Khan has rejected criticism of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as “nonsense”, insisting that the project “is really helping” the country.

Protesters again poured into streets across France yesterday hoping to derail a hotly-contested pension overhaul, whose fate will soon be in the hands of lawmakers after weeks of crippling transport strikes.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is facing a barrage of criticism at home that he is doing US President Donald Trump’s bidding after erecting a “wall” of security forces near the Guatemala border to keep out Central Americans.

Virus toll rises to 26, more than 800 infected; Ten Chinese cities hit with transport restrictions; Temples, ‘Forbidden City’, Lunar New Year festivals shut; Wuhan at centre of outbreak builds new infection hospital; WHO says outbreak a China emergency, not global

Gunmen from the Boko Haram militant group killed five people and abducted several others as they collected firewood in restive northeast Nigeria, security sources said Friday.

At least 21 people have died in Madagascar following almost a week of torrential rain in the north-west of the island, the government said on Friday.

A trickle of passengers at the train station in the Chinese city of Wuhan put on a brave face on Friday as they arrived in the epicentre of a coronavirus outbreak that has killed 26 people, infected hundreds and raised fears of a pandemic.

A massive explosion at a machine shop ripped through a Houston neighborhood early Friday morning, and police said at least two people were killed and several injured while homes were damaged

A Nepali student home from China tested positive for the new coronavirus, an official in Kathmandu said on Friday, making it the first confirmed case in the Himalayan nation.