International

American country music star Kenny Rogers dies aged 81, his family announces.

Large crowds of people are still flocking to Sydney’s beaches despite the coronavirus pandemic.

The BBC’s China correspondent Stephen McDonell met people venturing out for the first time in weeks.

Youth does not make you immune from coronavirus, the UN’s health body warns as deaths top 11,000.

Soldiers are being drafted in to help enforce the lockdown in Italy after the total number of deaths from Covid-19 in the European nation surpassed the toll in China, previously the deadliest center of the coronavirus outbreak.

Reclusive, nocturnal, numerous — bats are a possible source of the coronavirus. Yet some scientists concur they are not to blame for the transfer of the disease that’s changing daily life — humans are.

• Workers struggling: I have staff begging me not to close

As the US battles the coronavirus outbreak, “non-essential” travel is suspended across its borders.

The Persian New Year, or Nowruz, is a time of coming together in Iran. Alongside family, friends and strangers, Iranians take part in two weeks of rituals that include the spring equinox. Poetry is read and loved ones join one another in dance. Locals jump over bonfires to ward away …