World

Boris Johnson's political persona includes an anti-authoritarian swagger straight from the populist playbook.

Sick Britons avoid hospitals, driving up deaths at home during the pandemic

The sick are shunning Britain's hospitals and nursing homes, so deaths at home from heart attacks, cancer and other illness have soared.

2 hours ago
by Bevan Shields

US President Donald Trump has attacked Anthony Fauci at several recent rallies.

Analysis

Trump's feud with Fauci exactly what Republicans want to avoid

40 minutes ago
by Matthew Knott

Sir Patrick Vallance, the UK Chief Scientific Advisory, says COVID-19 is likely to become endemic.

COVID-19 likely to become 'endemic' like annual flu, says UK Chief Scientist

23 minutes ago
by Latika Bourke

France has launched raids hunting for Islamic extremists as Parisians hold vigils for beheaded teacher Samuel Paty.

French police raids target beheading links in crackdown on extremists

17 minutes ago
by Adam Nossiter

Tokyo's new National Stadium was scheduled to host the opening ceremony of the 2020 Olympic Games before the event was postponed.

Britain accuses Russia of plotting to sabotage Tokyo Olympics

by Bevan Shields

Opinion & Perspectives

Trump's feud with Fauci exactly what Republicans want to avoid

Matthew Knott

Taking pot-shots at such a popular figure is the type of undisciplined behaviour Republican strategists want Trump to avoid at this stage of the campaign.

I was a non-believer, but now I too want a hug from Jacinda

Pam Corkery

Ardern had just been made deputy leader when I decided to give her a few words of advice. She politely rejected them. I'm glad she did.

Ardern's win poses questions over the Greens and challenges for the centre-right

James Massola

Jacinda Ardern's re-election poses questions for centre-right governments around the world about what voters want and expect from their leaders.

North America

Analysis

Trump's feud with Fauci exactly what Republicans want to avoid

Taking pot-shots at such a popular figure is the type of undisciplined behaviour Republican strategists want Trump to avoid at this stage of the campaign.

40 minutes ago
by Matthew Knott

Ghislaine Maxwell has lost her bid to keep her 2016 deposition suppressed.

Ghislaine Maxwell loses court bid to keep her Jeffrey Epstein deposition secret

A US appeals court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's effort to block the release of an April 2016 deposition about her relationship with registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

by Jonathan Stempel

Trump blasts virus expert Fauci in campaign call, says he's a 'disaster'

by Jeff Mason and Steve Holland

Restaurant owners protest restaurant and bar closures in Marseille in France this month.

As coronavirus flares globally, new strategies target hotspots

by Jennifer Peltz

'Worried that he was going to get sick': Fauci not surprised by Trump's COVID diagnosis

by Katie Shepherd

Europe

French police raids target beheading links in crackdown on extremists

17 minutes ago
by Adam Nossiter

COVID-19 likely to become 'endemic' like annual flu, says UK Chief Scientist

23 minutes ago
by Latika Bourke

Sick Britons avoid hospitals, driving up deaths at home during the pandemic

2 hours ago
by Bevan Shields

BA's passenger traffic dropped 95 per cent from a year earlier in the second quarter.

Airlines chiefs call for quarantine to be scrapped worldwide, replaced with departure testing

by Latika Bourke

Britain accuses Russia of plotting to sabotage Tokyo Olympics

by Bevan Shields

Supporters of the newly elected Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar hold a Turkish flag and celebrate winning, in the Turkish occupied area in the north part of the divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus on Sunday.

North Cyprus edges closer to Turkey after vote

by Ali Kucukgocmen

Asia

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, left, shakes hands with Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc after the exchange of documents in Hanoi on Monday.

Vietnam lands defence deal with Japan amid China tension

Japan and Vietnam both face the dilemma of having China as their largest trading partner and as an adversary in territorial disputes.

by Isabel Reynolds

A woman wears a protective mask as she sells balloons outside a local shopping centre in Beijing, China.

Chinese economy grows but misses forecasts

Better results were expected after consumers returned to malls and major trading partners reopened for business after the coronavirus-led slump earlier this year.

by Gabriel Crossley

Pro-democracy supporters wave their mobile phones with flash on during a protest rally in Bangkok on Sunday.

Defiant protesters take over Bangkok streets as PM seeks talks

by Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Panarat Thepgumpanat

Hong Kong activist Grandma Wong 'prevented from crossing border for 14 months'

by Jessie Pang

Steven Chan Ka Chi (left) and Jones Chan work in the meal delivery service industry in China.

Frozen food package polluted by living coronavirus could cause infection, China's CDC says

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Luis Arce, center, Bolivian presidential candidate for the Movement Towards Socialism Party, MAS, and running mate David Choquehuanca, second right, celebrate as they claim victory.

Exiled ex-president's party defeats US-backed government in Bolivia's presidential election

Exiled former Bolivian president Evo Morales celebrated when his former economy minister claimed victory in a presidential election that throws out the conservative US-backed interim government that took power a year ago after the leftist leader resigned and fled the country.