Begona Gomez, the wife of Spanish Prime minister Pedro Sanchez, has tested positive for coronavirus, the prime minister’s office says.

President Donald Trump announces the United States would ban all travel from Europe for 30 days to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has jumped by 168 to 631, an increase of 36 percent, the Civil Protection Agency says, the largest rise in absolute numbers since the contagion came to light on February 21.

British MP Nadine Dorries, a minister in the health department, has tested positive for coronavirus, raising concerns about whether senior government figures have been infected.

Russian President Vladimir Putin opens the door to constitutional changes that would allow him to remain in power until 2036, but said he favored term limits once the country became politically “mature”.

A British national of Bangladeshi origin succumbs to coronavirus infection yesterday at a hospital in UK’s Manchester, the third death from the disease in the country.

Italy orders a virtual lockdown across much of its wealthy north, including the financial capital Milan, in a drastic new attempt to try to contain a outbreak of coronavirus that saw the number of deaths leap again sharply.

Almost 300 million students worldwide face weeks at home with Italy the latest country to shut schools over the deadly new coronavirus, as the IMF urged an all-out, global offensive against the epidemic.

Italy is closing all schools and universities from Thursday until mid-March to help curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, Ansa and other Italian news agencies cited government sources as saying.

German Ambassador in Dhaka Peter Fahrenholtz says that Germany is looking forward to further deepen bilateral relations with Bangladesh and would remain committed in its future partnership with the country.

Roman Polanski wins best director for "An Officer and a Spy" at a fractious ceremony for the French Oscars, the Cesars, that ends in walkouts and recrimination in Paris.

Greta Thunberg denounced politicians and the media yesterday for ignoring a looming climate cataclysm, saying that they were failing her generation with their inaction in the face of a world on fire.

The Scottish parliament has approved plans to make sanitary products freely available to all women, the first nation in the world to do so.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday rejected calls for a halt to a Russia-backed Syrian offensive in Idlib in northwest Syria.

Australia’s wildfires have destroyed more than a fifth of the country’s forests, making the blazes “globally unprecedented” following a years-long drought linked to climate change, researchers said Monday.

German authorities yesterday scrambled to determine the motives of a man who ploughed his car into a carnival procession, injuring dozens and further unsettling a country rocked by a fatal mass shooting last week.

Libya’s warring sides have proposed a draft ceasefire agreement that would see the United Nations monitor the safe return of civilians to their homes, the UN said yesterday.

The sharp rise in cases and the geographical spread of the coronavirus outside China confirm WHO fears over dealing with the crisis, experts warned Sunday as they appealed for ever greater vigilance.

UN chief Antonio Guterres yesterday launched a “call to action” against rising attacks on human rights, highlighting the persecution of minorities and “alarming levels of femicide”.

A lawyer for the United States yesterday accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of risking the lives of intelligence sources by publishing classified US government documents, as his extradition hearing opened in a London court.