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.

Global animal, bird, and fish populations have plummeted more than two-thirds in less than 50 years due to rampant over-consumption, experts say.

A Yemeni official in southwestern Ta'izz province says the United Arab Emirates is manipulating the demographic composition of the province to dislodge pro-Saudi forces, exposing further rift in the Saudi-led coalition.

Two Asiatic leopards are spotted in the Chahardangeh (Kiasar) Wildlife Refuge, located in Iran’s Mazandaran Province.

The new coronavirus is likely to infect up to 70% of the population in Germany, Europe's largest economy, Chancellor Angela Merkel says.

A new report by the Iranian government shows population has grown to stand at 83.75 million.

Congolese authorities and health workers have vaccinated more than 200,000 people against Ebola in August, official data shows.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei urges population increase in Iran, hailing a big populace as a source of national strength for any Muslim country.

At least 95 people have been killed in an overnight attack on an ethnic Dogon village in central Mali, local officials say.