The government has reversed policy on wearing facemasks in schools in England, sparking fresh criticism about its handling of the coronavirus outbreak.
Namibia's government said Tuesday the country would reopen to foreign visitors from September 1 to try and salvage thousands of jobs in tourism, badly hit by coronavirus travel bans.
The total number of COVID-19 cases in India surged to 3,234,474, while the death toll reached 59,449, showed the latest data released by the federal health ministry on Wednesday.
At least 25 people were killed and 40 others wounded in torrential floods in Afghanistan's eastern Parwan province during Tuesday night, a provincial government spokesperson said Wednesday.
At midnight, Eman Mehanna switches on her headlamp and begins her day's work picking jasmine flowers, as their powerful fragrance wafts far across the fields in Egypt's fertile Nile Delta.
