President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, nine years after he exposed the scale of secret surveillance operations by the National Security Agency (NSA). [Read More]

Russia must face "just punishment" over its invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the UN General Assembly in New York. [Read More]

The nation has paid a final farewell to Queen Elizabeth II, with a state funeral and military procession. [Read More]

Ukrainian forces were charging through an expanding area of previously Russian-held territory in the east on Friday after bursting through the frontline in a surprise breakthrough that could mark a major turning point in the war. [Read More]

The last photo of Queen Elizabeth II, September 6th 2022, by Jane Barlow [Read More]

As the day began on Friday and the UK entered its first full day of mourning, church bells rang out in the Queen's honor across the country, gun salutes were fired in royal parks in her memory, and people gathered outside Buckingham Palace in London. [Read More]

Britain, the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine in late 2020, has now also given the first green light to a variant-adapted shot that targets both the original and Omicron version of the virus. [Read More]

The 31-year-old Olympic gold medallist was detained in February at an airport near Moscow when vape cartridges containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage. [Read More]

The US has killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in a drone strike in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden has confirmed. [Read More]

The classification is the highest alert that the WHO can issue and follows a worldwide upsurge in cases. [Read More]

For the first time in 20 years, the exchange rate between the euro (EUU) and the US dollar is nearly the same -- the two currencies are less than one cent away from parity. [Read More]

Often overlooked amid the human suffering, Russia is inflicting lasting damage on wildlife and globally important wetlands [Read More]

A teenage gunman murdered at least 19 children and two teachers after storming into a Texas elementary school on Tuesday. [Read More]

Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the United Arab Emirates President whose modernization policies helped transform his country into a regional powerhouse, died on Friday aged 73, state media WAM said. [Read More]

As many as 60 people were feared to have been killed in the Russian bombing of a village school in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the regional governor said on Sunday. [Read More]

Russia has warned the United States that there will be "unpredictable consequences" if Washington keeps arming Ukraine, The Washington Post reported on Friday. [Read More]

Elon Musk has made an offer to buy Twitter (TWTR) and take it private, saying he believes it needs to be "transformed." [Read More]

In the town of Bucha, 37 km (23 miles) northwest of Kyiv's city centre, Reuters reporters saw a man lay sprawled by the roadside, his hands tied behind his back and a bullet wound to his head. [Read More]

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has called urgently for “meaningful and fair” peace talks over Russia’s invasion amid further attacks, including a claim by Moscow that it had used a hypersonic missile for the first time, hitting a depot in the west of the country. [Read More]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he spoke with the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen on Friday and Ukraine expects progress to be made on its application to join the European Union in the coming months. [Read More]

Russian shelling struck Kyiv on Tuesday killing at least two people, authorities said, as invading forces tightened their grip on the Ukrainian capital and the mayor announced a 35-hour curfew starting at 8 p.m. [Read More]

"I know that you want to survive," he said, adding that those who surrendered would be treated "as people, decently". [Read More]

Depending on the Russian, the sight of so many well-known American companies suddenly suspending operations in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine is either cause for alarm — or generating disgust. [Read More]

Oksana Markarova appears moved as she thanks attendees, while US president condemns Putin’s ‘tyranny’ [Read More]

Several dozen Japanese men have answered a Ukrainian call for foreign volunteers to fight Russia's invasion, according to a media report on Wednesday. [Read More]

During the 5 days of fighting against the aggressor, people have not just left Ukraine: almost 80,000 of our compatriots have returned to their homeland, most of them men. [Read More]

The Vatican said on Monday it was ready to "facilitate dialogue" between Russia and Ukraine to end the war, and called for an immediate stop to the "military attack". [Read More]

Protesters turned out on public squares and outside Russian embassies in cities from Tokyo to Tel Aviv and New York on Thursday to denounce the invasion of Ukraine -- while more than a thousand who tried to do the same in Russia were arrested. [Read More]

Explosions rocked several Ukraine cities, including the capital Kyiv, as Russia launched an invasion with simultaneous attacks coming from south, east and north, by land and by air. [Read More]

A 57-year-old Maryland man is doing well three days after receiving a genetically modified pig heart in a first-of-its-kind transplant surgery, University of Maryland Medicine said in a news release Monday. [Read More]

Magdalena Andersson's rise to power has been nothing short of a political soap opera, and the season finale may be yet to come. [Read More]

Australia and several other countries joined nations imposing restrictions on travel from southern Africa on Saturday after the discovery of the new Omicron coronavirus variant sparked global concern and triggered a market sell-off. [Read More]

More countries are tightening their travel restrictions after a new coronavirus variant was identified in southern Africa earlier this week. [Read More]

North Korea has fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile into waters off the coast of Japan, South Korea's military has said. [Read More]

U.S. forces helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule braced for more attacks on Friday after an Islamic State suicide bomber killed 85 people, including 13 U.S. soldiers outside the gates of Kabul airport. [Read More]

China reported no new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases on Monday for the first time since July, according to its National Health Commission (NHC), as authorities double down on the country's stringent zero-Covid approach. [Read More]

Millions prepared for damage and power outages after big Central Park concert abandoned [Read More]

Conservative talk radio host Phil Valentine has died following a lengthy battle with COVID-19. He was 61 years old. [Read More]

Armed members of the Taliban kept people desperate to flee Afghanistan from reaching Kabul's airport on Wednesday, witnesses said, while President Joe Biden vowed to keep U.S. troops in the country until all Americans are evacuated. [Read More]

President Joe Biden has said he stands "squarely" behind the US exit from Afghanistan as he faces withering criticism over the Taliban's lightning conquest of the war-torn country. [Read More]

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, is instructing U.S. citizens to shelter in place amid reports that the city’s airport is under fire. [Read More]

Pope Francis called on Sunday for dialogue to end the conflict in Afghanistan so that its people can live in peace, security and reciprocal respect. [Read More]

The Taliban have moved closer to retaking full control of Afghanistan, with the capital Kabul now the only major city left in government hands. [Read More]

As coronavirus infections rise again, U.S. companies mandating vaccinations are confronting an uncomfortable question rarely asked by an employer - what is an employee's religious belief? [Read More]

Five people were missing and several injured after an explosion rocked an industrial park in the western German city of Leverkusen on Tuesday, sending up plumes of smoke and prompting police to ask nearby residents to remain in their homes. [Read More]

The Tokyo Olympic Games are upon us. They look and feel different to any other Games of times gone by, but they are here. At last. [Read More]

Billionaire Jeff Bezos blasted into space on Tuesday, in the first crewed flight of his rocket ship, New Shepard. [Read More]

Rescue crews have been racing to find survivors of floods that have wreaked havoc across western Europe, killing more than 150 people. [Read More]

The number of people who lost their lives in the heavy floods in the western part of Germany increased to at least 81 on Friday, according to German broadcaster ARD, in what is Germany's worst mass loss of life in years. [Read More]

As England's so-called "freedom day" draws near, excitement at the impending end of COVID-19 restrictions is tempered by worries of rising cases and downright fear among the vulnerable. [Read More]

Four weeks ago, Israel was celebrating a return to normal life in its battle with COVID-19. [Read More]

The devastating heat wave that ravaged British Columbia last week is being blamed for a massive die-off of mussels, clams and other marine animals that live on the beaches of Western Canada. [Read More]

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out his plan to lift most of England's remaining coronavirus restrictions by mid-July, despite warnings from some experts that the current surge of Delta variant cases across the country means such a move is premature. [Read More]

Rescuers in Japan searched desperately on Monday for survivors among 80 people believed to be still missing two days after landslides tore through the seaside city of Atami, destroying houses and burying roads under mud and rock. [Read More]

The tiny town of Lytton has come to hold a grim record. On Tuesday, it experienced Canada's highest-ever temperature, in an unprecedented heat wave that has over a week killed hundreds of people and triggered more than 150 wildfires across British Columbia, most of which are still burning. [Read More]

More than 130 wildfires - fuelled by lightning strikes - are burning across western Canada following a record-breaking heatwave. [Read More]

Dozens of people have died in Canada amid an unprecedented heatwave that has smashed temperature records. [Read More]

In the past fortnight, the Delta variant has managed to breach the city's defences. In one week, positive cases have ballooned to more than 100. [Read More]

The US white ex-police officer convicted of murdering African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 has been sentenced to 22 years and six months in jail. [Read More]

Rescue workers scouring the debris of a collapsed condo building in a Miami suburb said they heard sounds in the rubble overnight, as officials on Friday raised the number of people unaccounted for to 159 and the confirmed death toll to four. [Read More]

Anti-virus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite him to the US to face tax evasion charges. [Read More]

The Israeli military struck targets in Gaza overnight Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement, citing incendiary balloons launched from Gaza earlier in the day. According to reports in Israeli media, incendiary balloons launched from Gaza sparked multiple fires in southern Israel. [Read More]

The first Israeli government in 12 years not led by Benjamin Netanyahu got down to business on Monday, with the former prime minister shying away from a handover ceremony with successor Naftali Bennett. [Read More]

The upper house of the Japanese Parliament on Friday passed a resolution supporting the self-governed island's participation in the World Health Organisation's (WHO) annual assembly. [Read More]

The Biden administration is buying 500 million doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine to donate to the world as the United States dramatically increases its efforts to help vaccinate more of the global population, three people familiar with the plans said Wednesday. [Read More]

Millions of Covid vaccines could be wasted if rich countries send large amounts of leftover doses to poorer nations in one go, Unicef has warned. [Read More]

The United States, Britain and other leading nations reached a landmark deal on Saturday to pursue higher global taxation on multinational businesses such as Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon. [Read More]

The WHO said it prevented symptomatic disease in 51% of those vaccinated and prevented severe symptoms and hospitalization in 100% of samples. [Read More]

When the final Phase 3 data came out last November showing the mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna were more than 90% effective, Dr. Anthony Fauci had no words. He texted smiley face emojis to a journalist seeking his reaction. [Read More]

The Chinese government will allow couples to have three children, according to state-run news agency Xinhua, the latest easing of strict family planning policies as the country tries to avert a demographic crisis. [Read More]

"A new coronavirus variant with characteristics from the existing Indian and UK variants had been detected in Vietnam for the first time," Vietnam's Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long told a national news conference Saturday. [Read More]

US President Joe Biden's call for a renewed investigation into the origins of the coronavirus feels like déjà vu in Beijing. [Read More]

Germany on Friday apologised for its role in slaughter of Herero and Nama tribespeople in Namibia more than a century ago and officially described the massacre as genocide for the first time, as it agreed to fund projects worth over a billion euros. [Read More]

US President Joe Biden has ordered intelligence officials to "redouble" efforts to investigate the origins of Covid-19, including the theory that it came from a laboratory in China. [Read More]

A US intelligence report found that several researchers at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in November 2019 and had to be hospitalized, a new detail about the severity of their symptoms that could fuel further debate about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, according to two people briefed on the intelligence. [Read More]

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The first convoys of humanitarian aid have arrived in Gaza, hours after a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants came into effect. [Read More]

A ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip has come into effect. [Read More]

Lull in violence on Thursday as efforts to secure a ceasefire this week appear to gather momentum [Read More]

Israeli forces pounded Gaza with air strikes and Hamas militants renewed cross-border rocket attacks on Wednesday, pressing on with a conflict that has caused widespread destruction in the Palestinian enclave and threatened cities deep inside Israel. [Read More]

The European Union's drugs regulator has said the Pfizer Covid vaccine can now be stored at fridge temperature for much longer than it previously recommended. [Read More]

Israel bombed the house of Hamas' Gaza leader and obliterated a family's home in Gaza as Hamas launched more than 100 rockets towards Israel on Sunday, marking the deadliest day of the week-long conflict so far, according to data from the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza and Israeli authorities. [Read More]

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Israel has intensified its assault on Gaza, as Palestinian militants continue to fire rockets into Israel on the fifth day of hostilities. [Read More]

Biden said. “Let me repeat: if you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask.” [Read More]

Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired dozens of rockets at Israel after its air strikes killed top commanders and felled another tower block there. [Read More]

The panel, set up by the World Health Organization, said the combined response of the WHO and global governments was a "toxic cocktail". [Read More]

Pediatricians and pharmacies across the US are ready to administer Covid-19 vaccines for 12- to 15-year-olds, a development the US Food and Drug Administration predicts could begin in some places Tuesday -- and may begin more broadly Thursday. [Read More]

China will set up "a line of separation" at the summit of Mount Everest to prevent the mingling of climbers from COVID-hit Nepal and those ascending from the Tibetan side as a precautionary measure, Chinese state media reported on Sunday. [Read More]

Some criticised China for not making an effort to control the descent but China maintained it was "not worth panicking about". [Read More]

An overpass carrying a subway train collapsed in Mexico City late Monday, killing 15 people and injuring at least 70, according to local government officials. [Read More]

Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, and his wife, Melinda French Gates, said on Twitter on Monday that they will split up after 27 years. The two will keep working together on philanthropic efforts, which have addressed education, gender equality and health care. [Read More]

The four astronauts aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule have returned to earth, splashing down in a parachute landing in the Gulf of Mexico after a record-setting mission to the International Space Station. [Read More]

A forum of scientific advisers set up by the government warned Indian officials in early March of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus taking hold in the country, five scientists who are part of the forum told Reuters. [Read More]

At least 44 people have been killed in a crush at a crowded religious festival in the north-east of Israel. [Read More]

At two anonymous Pfizer buildings, one in the U.S. and one in Belgium, a remarkable experiment is under way. Up to 60 volunteers, all clean-living adults aged between 18 and 60, are being given the first pill specifically designed to stop Covid-19. [Read More]

In Israel, a sense of normalcy is returning to daily life. Masks are no longer required outdoors. The economy is open. It's difficult to get a reservation at many restaurants. Students are back in school full time. Live theater and sports are back on. [Read More]

An instrument on Nasa's Perseverance rover on Mars has made oxygen from the planet's carbon dioxide atmosphere. [Read More]

The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday launched a sweeping civil investigation into policing practices in Minneapolis following a jury’s verdict that former city police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd. [Read More]

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said people will “likely” need a booster dose of a Covid-19 vaccine within 12 months of getting fully vaccinated. His comments were made public Thursday but were taped April 1. [Read More]

Bernard Madoff, who was convicted for running the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, died on Wednesday in prison where he was serving a 150-year sentence, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said. He was 82. [Read More]

US health authorities are calling for a pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, after reports of extremely rare blood clotting cases. [Read More]

At least 36 people were killed and 72 injured when a Taiwan train derailed in a tunnel on Friday after apparently hitting a truck in the island’s worst rail disaster in at least four decades. [Read More]

A Minneapolis court has been shown new police bodycam footage of George Floyd pleading with officers during his arrest, saying: "I'm not a bad guy". [Read More]

The teenager whose film of George Floyd's death sparked global protests said she "stays up apologising" to him for "not doing more". [Read More]

Traffic has resumed in Egypt's Suez Canal after a stranded container ship blocking it for nearly a week was finally freed by salvage crews. [Read More]

Other Nations also join to condemn the military after the deadliest day since last military takeover [Read More]

Across the country, intensive care physicians keep saying the same thing: In this latest wave, their patients are younger than ever. [Read More]

The Covid-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca was 79% effective in preventing symptomatic illness in a large trial in the US, Chile and Peru, the company said on Monday, paving the way for it to apply for US approval. [Read More]

EMA says benefits outweigh risks but also that it is continuing to study possible link with very rare blood clotting disorder [Read More]

A Japanese court ruled on Wednesday that not allowing same-sex couples to marry is "unconstitutional," setting a precedent in the only G7 nation not to fully recognise same-sex partnership [Read More]

The Vatican said on Monday that priests and other Catholic Church ministers cannot bless same-sex unions and that such blessings are “not licit” if carried out. [Read More]

The Duchess of Sussex has said she found life within the British Royal Family so difficult that at times she "didn't want to be alive any more". [Read More]

Minneapolis residents are bracing for the opening of what is sure to be one of the nation's most closely watched trials in years - that of the white policeman charged with killing George Floyd, a black man whose dying struggles were captured on a video seen around the world. [Read More]

The average number of vaccine doses being administered across the United States per day topped two million for the first time on Wednesday, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A month ago, the average was about 1.3 million. [Read More]

A group of nearly 300 girls who were kidnapped from a school in north-western Nigeria last week have been released, a local official says. [Read More]

A US intelligence report has found that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the murder of exiled Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. [Read More]

US President Joe Biden has talked by phone with King Salman of Saudi Arabia as he seeks to put relations with America's old ally on a new footing. [Read More]

New Zealand started its official rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine on Saturday, while Australia finalised plans to begin inoculations on Monday, a new phase in tackling the virus that both countries have kept largely contained. [Read More]

A 22-year-old Indian climate activist has been arrested after sharing a document intended to help farmers protest against new agricultural laws. [Read More]

The US is to end its support for offensive operations by its allies in Yemen, which has been devastated by a six-year war in which more than 110,000 people are believed to have died. [Read More]

Staff at 70 hospitals and medical departments in 30 towns across Myanmar stopped work on Wednesday to protest against the coup that ousted elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the newly formed Myanmar Civil Disobedience Movement said. [Read More]

Myanmar's military has seized power after detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other democratically elected leaders. [Read More]

A visa scheme to allow Hong Kong residents to come to the UK opens on Sunday, with some 300,000 people expected to apply. [Read More]

Harris said she is "filled with a sense of purpose and hope." [Read More]

Joe Biden's life of resilience in the face of unbearable loss will take on new meaning when he steps up to deliver his inaugural address Wednesday as the nation's 46th President. [Read More]

Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced the resignation of his government on Friday, accepting responsibility for years of mismanagement of childcare subsidies, which wrongfully drove thousands of families to financial ruin. [Read More]

Asia’s chicken farmers are confronting the region’s worst bird flu outbreak in years, with the deadly virus affecting farms stretching from Japan to India, roiling some poultry prices and showing no signs of easing. [Read More]

Indian airlines started delivering batches of COVID-19 vaccines across the country on Tuesday, getting ready for the launch of a campaign to offer shots to 1.3 billion people in what officials call the world’s biggest vaccination drive. [Read More]

The World Health Organization said that China has blocked the arrival of a team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, in a rare rebuke from the UN agency. [Read More]

People in all of England and most of Scotland must now stay at home except for a handful of permitted reasons, as new lockdowns begin in both nations. [Read More]

A cluster of islands in the Pacific Ocean that's one of the few places on Earth entirely free from Covid-19 could become one of the first countries vaccinated against the disease. [Read More]

The 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products - referred to as the "tampon tax" - will be abolished in the UK from 1 January. [Read More]

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a long-shot lawsuit by Texas and backed by President Donald Trump seeking to throw out voting results in four states, dealing him a likely fatal blow in his quest to undo his election loss to President-elect Joe Biden. [Read More]

Margaret Keenan - known as Maggie to friends and family - celebrated with a cup of tea after being given the life-saving Covid jab at 6.31am at her local hospital in Coventry, West Mids. [Read More]

Thousands of people protested and blocked traffic in central London on Sunday over Indian agricultural reforms that have triggered mass demonstrations in India, and police made 13 arrests over breaches of COVID regulations. [Read More]

The Moderna vaccine is 94.5% effective against coronavirus, according to early data released Monday by the company, making it the second vaccine in the United States to have a stunningly high success rate. [Read More]

Joe Biden has said it is "time to heal" the US in his first speech as president-elect, vowing "not to divide but to unify" the country. [Read More]

Children among those killed and dozens injured after explosives believed hidden in plastic bag detonate at madrassa [Read More]

A gas found on Earth that signifies life has been detected in the clouds on Venus [Read More]

More than 500,000 people in Oregon have been forced to evacuate as unprecedented wildfires rage across the state, amounting to more than 10% of the population, authorities said Thursday. [Read More]

The U.S. announced Tuesday that it would not join an international coalition to find and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine worldwide due to the group's association with the World Health Organization, the latest sign of the Trump administration withdrawing the country from the international health community's response to the pandemic over political concerns. [Read More]

Kamala Harris, a California senator and daughter of immigrants who has broken racial barriers at every step of her political career, made US history on Wednesday night as she became the first Black woman and first Asian American to formally accept a major party’s vice-presidential nomination. [Read More]

Tens of thousands of opponents of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko have gathered in Minsk to protest against disputed elections. [Read More]

Russia has officially registered a coronavirus vaccine developed by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Institute, President Vladimir Putin said on Russian state TV on Tuesday. [Read More]

Protesters clashed with Lebanese security forces at anti-government demonstrations in Beirut on Thursday. [Read More]

As Lebanon's investigation into the devastating blast in Beirut continues, officials have pointed to a possible cause: A massive shipment of agricultural fertilizer that authorities say was stored in the port of Beirut without safety precautions for years -- despite warnings by local officials. [Read More]

Lebanese rescue workers dug through the rubble looking for survivors of a powerful warehouse explosion that shook the capital Beirut, killing 78 people and injuring nearly 4,000 in a toll that officials expected to rise. [Read More]

A potential coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University in the U.K. with pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has produced a promising immune response in a large, early-stage human trial.The researchers said the vaccine produced antibodies and killer T-cells to combat the infection that lasted at least two months. [Read More]

Hong Kong police on Wednesday made their first arrest under a controversial new national security law imposed by China's central government less than 24 hours ago, as protests broke out in the city. [Read More]

Deforestation of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest was worse than previously reported in 2019, revised government data showed on Tuesday, during the first year of President Jair Bolsonaro, who is keen to develop the forest crucial to curbing global warming. [Read More]

Australian Federal Police (AFP) have arrested nine men in relation to an alleged child abuse network that was filmed, photographed and shared online. [Read More]

Politicians say the laws threaten "fundamental freedoms" and are a "flagrant breach" of the Sino-British Joint Declaration. [Read More]

Turkish troops have invaded Greece and occupied a small patch of land on their contested border near the River Evros. [Read More]

A father and son have been arrested and charged in the US state of Georgia for the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man. [Read More]

Chen Jieren, a former Chinese state media journalist turned anti-corruption blogger has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. [Read More]

Most Floridians hitting the newly reopened beaches are trading stay-at-home sweatpants for shorts and swimsuits.But when he heads out, Daniel Uhlfelder dons a raggedy black robe, conceals his face with a black cloth and wields his scythe. [Read More]

A woman has plunged 115ft to her death after falling from a cliff in Turkey while posing for a photo. [Read More]

Kingdom has one of the world’s highest rates of execution and rights groups have repeatedly raised concerns about the fairness of trialsSaudi Arabia has ended the death penalty for crimes committed by minors after effectively abolishing floggings, as the kingdom seeks to blunt criticism over its human rights record. [Read More]

More than 40 workers unanimously deciding to leave their families, agreeing to eat, sleep, and live at the facility where they make equipment for health care workers.The team worked 12-hour shifts. TV and the occasional drive-by from family members were only outside contact they've had. [Read More]

A gunman killed at least 16 people, including a police officer, and evaded authorities for hours while dressed as a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer in rural Nova Scotia in what was Canada's deadliest shooting in three decades, officials said Sunday. [Read More]

A new decree took effect in Vietnam on Wednesday introducing fines for the dissemination of ‘fake news’ or rumours on social media, amid the rapid spread of comment online about the novel coronavirus in the Southeast Asian country. [Read More]

US President Donald Trump has said he is going to halt funding to the World Health Organization (WHO) because it has "failed in its basic duty" in its response to the coronavirus outbreak. [Read More]

In March, when Australia announced that its bushfires were over after 240 intense days, the world rejoiced. Now, the hard work of rebuilding begins. And this not only means rebuilding for the people who lost their homes, but also for the innumerable animals that were injured in the fires. Veterinary hospitals across Australia were inundated with animals during the crisis and, now, their first patients are well enough to return to the wild. [Read More]

South Korean officials on Friday reported 91 patients thought cleared of the new coronavirus had tested positive again. [Read More]

Tests relating to COVID-19, whether done in approved government or private laboratories, shall be free of cost, the Supreme Court ordered on Wednesday. [Read More]

Oprah Winfrey joined the growing list of celebrities who are donating money to coronavirus relief efforts.The media mogul announced on Thursday that she donated $10 million "to help Americans during this pandemic in cities across the country." [Read More]

Italy reported its lowest daily rise in COVID-19 deaths for nearly two weeks on Saturday and said the number of patients in intensive care had fallen for the first time. [Read More]

Australia will provide 1 million liters of alcohol for disinfectant, Taiwan to send 3 metric tons of mask fabric to battle the coronavirus. [Read More]

In a series of videos on Instagram, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau says she has been given a 'clear bill of health' from health officials. She thanked Canadians for their support and offered encouragement to get through the pandemic. [Read More]

China and Vietnam are finally banning the wild animal trade after the coronavirus spread across the world killing thousands of people. [Read More]

During the epidemic, the dead were cremated immediately, without ceremonies and without specifying the cause of death. Now family members are waiting to bury the urns containing the ashes of their loved ones. About 45,000 urnes will be distributed in Wuhan alone. The number of coronavirus deaths in China is deliberately underestimated. [Read More]

At the time or writing, the US has 81,332 cases of coronavirus, while China has 81,285, according to live statistics tabulated by WorldoMeters. [Read More]

The Prince of Wales has tested positive for coronavirus, Clarence House has announced. [Read More]

The former movie mogul was found guilty on two counts, but acquitted of the most serious sex crimes in his New York sexual assault trial. He will be sentenced on March 11. [Read More]

Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vazquez declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after a series of earthquakes killed at least one person, toppled buildings and knocked out power to nearly the entire island of more than 3 million people. [Read More]

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