They had spent months planning their route, a 3,500-kilometer (2,200-mile) trans-America road trip, a voyage of a lifetime.

A spike in cases in the Gulf helped push infections in the Middle East for the new coronavirus past 10,000 cases on Thursday, with most infected people either in Iran or having recently traveled there.

The European Central Bank is expected to announce Thursday new measures to cushion the economy against the disruption from the virus outbreak.

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A supercomputer is boosting efforts in East Africa to control a locust outbreak that raises what the U.N. food agency calls 'an unprecedented threat' to the region’s food security.

Three service members were killed, including two Americans, and a dozen more were injured when a barrage of rockets were fired at a military base in Iraq, U.S. officials said Wednesday.

President Donald Trump’s decision Wednesday to impose a 30-day ban on most Europeans entering the United States is the latest calamity for airlines already reeling from falling bookings and cancelled reservations as people try to avoid contracting the coronavirus.

People around the world became increasingly closed off from one another Thursday as sweeping travel bans accelerated, walling regions apart as a viral pandemic unfolds and financial markets plunge.

The battle to win the hearts of Parisians and preside over France’s capital from the opulent city hall, has been nasty, and unpredictable.

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike spoke Thursday after the World Health Organization labeled the spreading virus a ?pandemic,' a decision almost certain to affect the Tokyo Olympics.