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India has had relatively few confirmed cases of coronavirus - but there's been plenty of misleading advice on how to tackle it.BBC News been fact-checking some of the most prominent examples.Cow urine

Major US sports have been suspended, top-flight football in Europe has been postponed and tennis tournaments have been put on hold because of COVID-19's spread.But as major sports leagues and events are

Global stock markets and U.S. futures fell Monday after central bank moves to shore up economic growth failed to dispel investor's fears over anti-virus controls that are shutting down global business

In April 1914, as Europe was moving towards war, Dakar, the capital of present-day Senegal, was hit by an epidemic of bubonic plague that within a year, according to one account, wiped out nearly 15 percent

The coronavirus pandemic has shredded the global sporting calendar, with men's tennis shut down for six weeks, top European football leagues placed on hold, the National Hockey League (NHL) in the United

New Zealand has "fundamentally changed" since the Christchurch mosque attacks one year ago, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said.Fifty-one people died when a gunman attacked two mosques last March.Hundreds

Uber's self-driving cars are back on San Francisco's streets in full autonomous mode after a two-year hiatus. The move comes after one of the company's cars was involved in a fatal accident, the first

Tether, the blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, and Aave Protocol, an open-source and non-custodial protocol, are working together to bring wider adoption

Formula One's Bahrain Grand Prix will run this month without spectators as the island kingdom fights an outbreak of the new coronavirus, organizers announced Sunday. Mideast stock markets fell sharply

New warnings claim that pretty much every Intel processor released in the last five years has a security flaw baked into the silicon which can't actually be fixed as such, although the chip maker has already

A U.S. forces spokesman confirmed the incident in southern Helmand province, hours after President Donald Trump spoke by phone with chief Taliban negotiator Mullah Baradar Akhund on Tuesday, the first

Tornadoes that hit the southern US city of Nashville and surrounding areas have left at least 25 dead and many more missing or homeless, Tennessee's governor said on Tuesday.At least 17 of those who died

North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles from a coastal area Monday as it resumed weapons demonstrations following a months-long hiatus.The launches came two days after North Korea's state media

Turkey said on Sunday it had destroyed air defense systems, more than 100 tanks and downed two planes belonging to the Syrian army as part of an operation it launched after an air strike killed dozens

As scientists and public health officials around the world scramble to contain the deadly coronavirus outbreak, some researchers are also racing to solve the enduring mystery of where the newly identified

Abdul Samar was praying at a mosque in the northeast of India's capital on Tuesday evening when protesters stormed in brandishing weapons, attacking worshipers and setting the building ablaze.The mob descended

The number of new virus infections in South Korea jumped again Wednesday and the U.S. military reported its first case among its soldiers based in the Asian country, with his case and many others connected

Facebook has been looking into posts supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential election campaign that were deemed suspicious, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing unnamed sources. Facebook

Several Jewish groups have criticised Amazon for fictitious depictions of the Holocaust in its new series Hunters.The online retail giant has also been denounced for allowing the sale of anti-Semitic

Hours after Afghanistan's incumbent President Ashraf Ghani was declared on Tuesday the winner of the September 28 presidential election, runner-up Abdullah Abdullah contested the much-delayed results,