Farmers concerned about disruptions to spring seeding, livestock operations amid COVID-19

While it may be easier than most for farmers to self-isolate in their tractors and farmyards, they too are unable to hide from the widespread impacts of the coronavirus.

A police officer is wearing a coronavirus helmet to warn people to stay inside during India's lockdown

As India enforces a nationwide lockdown due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, one police officer has found a creative way to get the message across.

ISIS members riot and break out of Syrian prison

Several Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) members escaped from a Syrian prison on Sunday by ripping off doors and using them to break down a wall during a "detention facility uprising," authorities said.

Coronavirus cases top 721,000 globally

In India, social distancing is a privilege of the middle class

For two days, Jeetender Mahender, a 36-year-old Dalit sanitation worker, has dared not leave his family's shanty in the Valmiki slum of northern Mumbai, India, except to go to the toilet.

Stabbing victim dies 3 months after attack at Hanukkah celebration in New York

A New York man severely injured in a stabbing during Hanukkah last year has died.

Convicted serial killer known as the 'Grim Sleeper' found dead in prison cell

A convicted serial killer, who murdered and preyed on women in California over a span of three decades, died over the weekend at San Quentin State Prison.

Plastic-eating bacteria could be small step toward tackling world's pollution crisis

Plastic products made with polyurethane, a synthetic chemical compound, typically end up buried in a landfill.

North Korea hails 'super large' launcher test as virus timing condemned

South Korea's army issued a stern statement saying that testing comes at a "very inappropriate" time.

Fresh out of medical school, young Italian doctors are being fast-tracked to the coronavirus frontline

Medical student Chiara Bonini, 26, had barely finished her final exam, before the young doctor was headed for the front line of Italy's coronavirus pandemic.