War, famine and disease are just a few crises Yemen has been dealing with in over five years since the Saudi-led war broke out in the Arab country.

Scientists say they had developed a way of predicting if patients will develop Alzheimer's disease by analyzing their blood.

The WHO chief warns against suggestions by some to just allow COVID-19 to spread in the hope of achieving so-called herd immunity, saying this was "unethical."

Two Americans together with a British win Nobel Medicine Prize for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus.

An excavation in the western Japanese city of Osaka unearthes more than 1,500 human bones at what is thought to be a burial site dating back some 160 years.

The number of people who have died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has now surpassed 704,000 around the world, with one person dying every 15 seconds on average, according to a Reuters tally.

A WHO expert says researchers are making "good progress" in developing vaccines against COVID-19 but their first use cannot be expected until early 2021.

A Chinese man who stabbed two people to death at a coronavirus travel checkpoint is executed in China.

Cases of infection with the new coronavirus have passed 7.2 million globally, and the death toll has crossed the 411,000 mark, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Confirmed coronavirus cases across the globe now number at 1,347,803, and a total of 74,807 people have lost their lives, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.