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This combination of photos provided by the Atlanta Police Department shows Officer Garrett Rolfe, left and Officer Devin Brosnan. Rolfe, who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks in the back after the fleeing man pointed a stun gun in his direction, was charged with felony murder and 10 other charges. Brosnan, who prosecutors say stood on Brooks shoulder as he struggled for life after a confrontation was charged with aggravated assault. (AP)

Officers charged with murder and assault for shooting Rayshard Brooks

Brooks' killing last Friday had sparked new demonstrations in Georgia's capital against police brutality

18 Jun 2020 8:32 AM IST

A health brigade gets ready while on door-to-door visits to carry out COVID-19 tests in Mexico City. (AFP)

Coronavirus has claimed more American lives than WWI

Meanwhile Trump administration insists there will be no shutdown of the economy if a second full-blown wave of the...

17 Jun 2020 9:02 AM IST

Demonstrators take party in a rally advertised as a Law and Order Rally that was also supporting President Donald Trump. (AFP)

Record spike in virus cases in US as states push ahead with reopening

Many state health officials partly attribute the increase to gatherings over the Memorial Day holiday weekend in late...

15 Jun 2020 10:24 AM IST

Employees of a funeral parlour carry the coffin of a COVID-19 victim into a vehicle, outside the Carlos Van Buren Hospital in Valparaiso. (AFP)

Chile to add 'probable' coronavirus deaths to official toll

A report by an investigative journalism organization showed huge differences between death toll announced to citizens...

15 Jun 2020 9:29 AM IST

Representational Image. (AFP)

US man receives $1.1 million hospital bill after surviving COVID-19

Michael Flor survived an almost sure death, only to receive a 181-page bill totalling $1,122,501.04 after miraculously...

14 Jun 2020 12:41 PM IST

Demonstrators face police officers after getting onto I75 and shutting down the interstate in Atlanta. (AP)

Two more black men have died since the anti-racism protests started in...

Atlanta police chief resigns hours after Rayshard Brooks was fatally shot in a struggle over a police Taser

14 Jun 2020 9:20 AM IST

A cemetery worker puts a cranium into a bag while exhuming the body of a person buried three years ago at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo. (AP)

Cemeteries cleaned up' to bury more in Brazil as virus deaths spike up

Brazil's biggest metropolis is digging up the bones of people buried in the past to create space for new bodies

13 Jun 2020 12:52 PM IST

North and South America currently have 4 of the 10 worst hit countries in the world

North and South America currently have 4 of the 10 worst hit countries...

The disease is 'highly active in Central and South America, says WHO's emergency expert, highlighting problems in Brazil...

13 Jun 2020 11:17 AM IST

Activists from the Brazilian NGO Rio de Paz (Peace Rio), stand next to 100 mock graves on Copacabana beach symbolizing deaths from the COVID-19 coronavirus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (AFP)

Brazil now unenviably the second in virus deaths

Brazil's health ministry recorded 909 deaths in the past 24 hours, putting the total at 41,828, and has now surpassed...

13 Jun 2020 10:37 AM IST

Demonstrators pass a gay pride flag as they walk during a protest billed as Justice for Tony McDade, Sunday, June 7, 2020, in Atlanta. McDade, a black transgender man, was shot and killed by police in late May in Tallahassee, Fla., two days after George Floyds death in Minneapolis. (AP)

Trump administration reverses transgender health care protection

Sex discrimination protections will be enforced according to the plain meaning of the word sex' as male or female, as...

13 Jun 2020 9:05 AM IST

An ambulance is parked at Arizona General Hospital shown in Laveen, Ariz., as Arizona hospitals that are expected to be able to treat new cases of coronavirus without going into crisis mode were above 80% capacity Tuesday, a milestone that should trigger an automatic stop to elective surgeries at affected hospitals. (AP)

Fears of second wave of virus outbreak rise in US

A recent spike in cases raises concerns that the reopening of the US economy may spark a second wave of infections

12 Jun 2020 10:25 AM IST

Graffiti on a Mumbai wall. (AFP)

US official says 'very concerned' about religious freedom in India

The remarks came hours after the release of the '2019 International Religious Freedom Report' on Wednesday

11 Jun 2020 3:17 PM IST