Nations ban travellers from southern Africa, a day after health officials named the new Covid-19 strain.

Police in Burkina Faso fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters at an unsanctioned anti-government rally in the capital on Saturday, an AFP journalist reported. Anti-riot police fired tear gas to prevent the demonstrators from gathering for the...

Edilberto Miguel Palaez Moctezuma was the innocent victim of a stray bullet that came through his home's window in Norristown, Pennsylvania.

A late-night shooting inside a Tennessee apartment has left three men dead and four more injured.

Sage adviser Professor Calum Semple today urged calm over the so-called 'Omicron' mutation, saying it is 'not a disaster' and suggesting some people may be 'hugely overstating the situation'.