A surge in the number of new coronavirus cases across Germany has pushed the nation’s testing capacity to near breaking point. Both the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for disease control and the Association of Accredited Laboratories in Medicine warned on Tuesday that the system for testing was reaching its limits. “We are in the middle of […]

China said it has convicted 1,151 people linked to 111 major cases of organised crime, the nation’s anti-gang authority said on  Tuesday at a news conference. A total of 4,193 people have been placed under investigation for gang-related corruption and for sheltering organised crime, said the national office against organised crime. READ ALSO: Court remands […]

Social media companies Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc on Monday outlined plans for placing warning labels on posts from U.S. election candidates and campaigns that claim victory in advance of official results. The moves come as social network platforms brace for what has been an unusual election cycle due to a high number of mail-in […]

As the Americans go to polls to choose their next president under an unusually tense political cloud, some strange occurrences have marked out this particular US election.

The final rally in Donald Trump’s gruelling re-election battle came to an end early Tuesday morning with the president promising he would once again defy the polls and political wisdom. His final appearance after a marathon 17 public appearances saw Trump take the stage in Grand Rapids, an industrial city in the midwestern state of […]