Bosnian Muslims yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, the worst atrocity on European soil since World War II, with the memorial ceremony sharply reduced as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Heavy rains triggered flash floods and landslides that killed at least 40 people and displaced thousands in western Nepal, officials said yesterday.

Police in St Louis, Missouri, have searched the mansion of a couple who brandished guns at protesters marching outside their home last month in widely seen videos, the St Louis Metropolitan Police Department has said.

President Donald Trump on Friday night commuted the sentence of his longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone, sparing him from prison after he was convicted of lying under oath to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 US election.

Biocon Ltd has received regulatory approval for its drug Itolizumab to be used on coronavirus infected patients suffering from moderate to severe respiratory distress, the biopharmaceutical company said in a statement yesterday.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wore a tartan face mask on a visit last week to shops in Edinburgh, as they prepared to reopen after the long coronavirus lockdown.

Anna Rothery is the first black woman to hold the position of Lord Mayor of Liverpool, a largely ceremonial role for elected councillors to promote the interests of the city.

Malacanang has said it respected the decision of a panel of the House of Representatives to deny giving media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corp a new 25-year congressional franchise.

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is targeting to hire additional contact tracers at the end of the month, said DILG spokesman and undersecretary Jonathan Malaya.

Senator Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go has called anew for the early passage of Senate Bill (SB) 205, which seeks to create the Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR), and another measure mandating the establishment of mandatory evacuation centres nationwide.

The World Health Organisation has urged countries grappling with coronavirus to step up control measures, saying it is still possible to rein it in, as some nations clamp fresh restrictions on citizens.

Amitabh Bachchan, one of India's best known movie stars, has tested positive for Covid-19 together with his actor son Abhishek Bachchan, and both been moved to a private hospital, the actors said late Saturday.