A “completely inappropriate” class photo showing scores of trainees giving an apparent “Nazi salute” is set to end in dozens of job losses.

The Wall Street Journal China Bureau Chief Jonathan Cheng says authorities “pledged to crackdown” on viruses like SARS and make sure they weren’t “causing a problem to the human race”. “But here we are almost two decades later and we have a very similar problem on our hands,” he told ...

Chinese authorities are urging the public to remain calm as they try to contain a mysterious, fast-spreading coronavirus that has killed dozens of people and infected thousands. However, millions have already left Wuhan, the city at the center of the outbreak. Photo: Associated Press

Iraqi security forces have shot at anti-government protesters in Baghdad killing at least one person, and unidentified men have set fire to sit-in tents in a southern Iraqi city, police and medics said, as months-long civil unrest escalated.

A plane has dramatically skidded off a runway, coming to a stop in the middle of a road in Iran.