The death toll in China from the new coronavirus leaped to 170 on Thursday, with 7,711 confirmed cases, as repatriation flights for foreign nationals continued. ....

Air India has kept a 423-seater jumbo plane ready in Mumbai to evacuate Indian citizens stuck in China's Wuhan city due to the coronavirus outbreak. ....

Chinese health authorities on Wednesday said that the death toll due to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak in the country has soared to 132, with 5,974 confirmed cases in 31 provincial-level regions. ....

Goa's first coronavirus suspect, a middle-aged Serbian national had arrived in India after visiting a Chinese city, nearly 750 km from Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus. On Tuesday, he was quarantined at the newly created isolation ward of a top government facility, an official said. ....

Investigators have recovered all of the nine bodies and key pieces of evidence from the scene of the helicopter crash which killed retired NBA star Kobe Bryant and eight others on Sunday in Los Angeles. ....

Sri Lanka has reported its first confirmed coronavirus case, a Chinese woman in her 40s. ....

Chinese health authorities on Tuesday said that the death toll due to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak in the country has climbed to 106, with 4,515 confirmed cases in 30 provincial-level regions. ....

Three people suspected to be infected with the novel cornavirus have been admitted at the Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) hospital here, an official confirmed on Tuesday. ....

Visiting WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday said that the global health body was confident in China's epidemic prevention and control ability, amid the novel coronavirus outbreak that has claimed the lives of 106 people in the country. ....

The Taliban on Monday claimed that it had shot down an American military plane in Deh Yak district of Ghazni province in Afghanistan, killing everyone on board, a media report said. ....