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There is a lot in the news about cyberattacks and the risks. Ireland has a case in point, with personal data appearing on the...
Is too much coffee bad for the heart? a new study suggests not, and it is the biggest piece of fieldwork conducted to date.
Amid pushbacks against requiring coronavirus vaccinations for cruise ships and NFL players, there is now a new lobby for mandatory vaccination.
Wildfires burned in regions across southern Europe on Monday, fuelled by hot weather and strong winds, after a weekend of torrential rain and flooding.
A yeast used to make beer engineered to produce an array of useful compounds for the development of pharmaceuticals, fuels, and food additives.
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) said Monday its more than 100,000 health care personnel would have to get Covid-19 shots, becoming the...
President Joe Biden declared US relations with Iraq would enter a new phase with American troops exiting combat operations in the country by year-end...
Mary Simon, who on Monday became the first indigenous person to be named governor general of Canada, has fought to preserve her people’s way...
China on Monday urged the United States to be “rational” and stop “demonising” it as the highest-level US envoy to visit the Asian giant...
A new World Bank financing mechanism will allow developing countries to purchase Covid-19 vaccines collectively through the Covax facility, it was announced Monday. Covax...
President Joe Biden opened talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi on Monday saying relations were in a “new phase” that would include the...
A new study of tortoises shows just how easy pathogenic bacteria can spread, provided people are about.
For a year, the peak of Japan's iconic Mount Fuji has been off-limits because of coronavirus.
Virus-wracked Indonesia said Sunday that small businesses and some shopping malls could reopen despite warnings that loosening curbs could spark another devastating Covid-19 wave, even as it...
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, architect of the so-called Carnation Revolution that ended more than four decades of dictatorship in Portugal, died Sunday aged 84,...
Approximately 900 Rio Tinto workers at the company's aluminum smelting facilities in Kitimat, B.C. have gone on strike.
Somalia has postponed elections that were due to start on Sunday after months of delays in the deeply unstable Horn of Africa country, officials...
Japan and Tunisia celebrated shock gold medals on a day of upsets in the Olympic swimming pool on Sunday.
More than 22,000 Afghan families have fled from their homes to escape fighting in the former Taliban bastion of Kandahar, officials said Sunday, as...
Typhoon In-Fa uprooted trees and drenched communities in knee-deep water in parts of eastern China, but there were no reports of major damage as...
French President Emmanuel Macron faced pressure to apologise for the devastating impact of decades of nuclear testing as he kicked off his first official...
A Frenchman on hunger strike in Tokyo seeking access to his children said an appeal from President Emmanuel Macron to Japan’s leader had “changed...
Afghan forces have captured four Taliban fighters including a militant commander for carrying out this week’s rocket attack targeting the presidential palace in Kabul...
The death toll from flooding and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains in India climbed to 124 Sunday, officials said, with rescuers searching for...