A fire killed five patients at a Covid-19 hospital in the Romanian capital Bucharest on Friday and 102 others were evacuated, officials said, the second deadly hospital fire in the country in under three months.

The United States on Wednesday widened its network for administering Covid-19 vaccines to doctors and nurses on the frontlines of a pandemic killing more than 3,000 Americans a day ...

Qatar Cancer Society (QCS) has launched an electronic campaign, Time to Quit, in connection with World No Tobacco Day and as a preventive measure to limit the spread of Covid-19.

The number of patients infected in China with new coronavirus has reached 20,438, as Hong Kong reported its first death from the disease, authorities said on Tuesday.

A fire in a plastics factory on near the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka has killed at least 13 people with more victims gravely injured, officials said Thursday.

Deaths related to measles, mostly among small children, have more than tripled to 20 in the past week on the Pacific island of Samoa ...

Divers were scouring for bodies in the wreckage of a scuba diving boat off California on Tuesday, after a fast-moving fire trapped dozens of people below deck ...

At least 76 people have died as a blistering heatwave swept through India's eastern state of Bihar on the weekend, officials said Monday.

At least 17 people were killed when a fire broke out in a four-storey commercial building in the city of Surat in India's western state of Gujarat on Friday, police said.

A US air strike killed at least eight policeman in Afghanistan's Helmand province, a government official said on Friday, the latest casualties from a rise in air and ground operations against the Afghan Taliban.

A suicide car bomber rammed a bus carrying Indian police officers in Kashmir on Thursday, killing 30 of them in a major attack on security forces in the disputed region..

A car bomb killed two people and injured six in the Iraqi city of Tikrit on Tuesday, the military said.