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Friday, April 30, 2021

Grammy Awards scrap controversial voting committees
India's over-18s vaccination to start
Covid: Australians could face jail or fines if they return from India
Florida plans to fine social media for banning politicians
Singapore: What's it like in the best place to live during Covid?
Covid: Pakistan fears 'Impending doom' threatens Pakistan
How a Nigerian mother fought to hold on to her child in Italy
Alaska's first CSI takes on blood and burglaries in sub-zero weather
India's Covid vaccine shortage: The desperate wait gets longer
France-Algeria relations: The lingering fallout from nuclear tests in the Sahara
Israel crush: 'People were screaming that they couldn't breathe'
Venezuela celebrates as 'doctor of the poor' beatified
Martha Koome: How Kenya's female justice overcame the odds
Israel crush: Netanyahu vows to investigate 'terrible disaster'
Bronze Age treasure found in Swedish forest by mapmaker
Apple charged over 'anti-competitive' app polices
Petition urges US First Lady Jill Biden to restore White House garden to 'former glory'
Israel crush: Witnesses tell of people 'thrown up in the air'
These people aren't real but could help tackle bias in tech
Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan violence: Deadly clash amid water dispute

Thursday, April 29, 2021

Israel stampede: Chaotic scenes as dozens dead at religious festival
India Covid: Delhi seeks more cremation space as deaths rise
Ghislaine Maxwell: Lawyers release photo that shows bruised face
Israel stampede: Dozens killed in crush at religious festival
India Covid: A nurse's story of fighting the virus
Quiz of the week: Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao, pricey sneakers and Marcelo's civic duty
Xueli Abbing: The abandoned baby who became a Vogue model
The ransomware surge ruining lives
'It's your device, you should be able to repair it'
Africa's week in pictures: 23-29 April 2021
World's longest pedestrian suspension bridge to open in Portugal
'Heartbreaking' return to St Vincent's volcano-hit 'red zone'
Ransomware gangs target firms, schools and hospitals
Huge hailstones land in Texas and Oklahoma
Man fined $12m for police station arson during George Floyd protests
German climate change law violates rights, court rules
German ex-footballer Christoph Metzelder guilty over child porn images
'Pregnant Egyptian mummy' revealed by scientists
Sumo wrestler dies one month after concussion
Gaunt Navalny in court after 24-day hunger strike
India Covid crisis: US tells citizens to leave the country
Checkers: Furore over Russian draughts player's flag removal
Rapper Kodak Black pleads guilty to assault and battery
Colombians take to the streets to oppose tax reform
Italy theft: Two suspects die in jewellery shop robbery
El Risitas: Man behind 'Spanish laughing guy' meme dies
Fans jubilant after Britney Spears news to address to court

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Biden pitches 'once in a generation investment' to Congress
West Bengal: India state elections go ahead as deaths hit record high
China launches first module of new space station
Zac Easter: He left his brain behind to save others from his fate
Covid: Turkey prepares for its first full lockdown
They are killing our forest, Brazilian tribe warns
The 'forgotten' Afghan refugees taking their own lives
India Covid-19: Deadly second wave spreads from cities to small towns
Covid in India: Sikh temple offers drive-through oxygen
India coronavirus: Man charged over oxygen SOS for dying grandfather
German spy agency watches Querdenker anti-lockdown movement
Somali president in poll U-turn to stop Mogadishu clashes
India coronavirus: Round-the-clock mass cremations
Covid in India: Couple marry in PPE clothing
France arrests ex-members of Italy terror group Red Brigades
Saudi Arabia's crown prince seeks good relations with Iran
Latvia fire: Riga hostel blaze kills eight
Grenade-shaped sex toy sparks police alert in Germany
Covid: Spain hopes for tourists as EU votes on digital passports
Britney Spears asks to address court over conservatorship case

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

India's Covid crisis: 'I lost my unborn child and wife on the same day'
Biden to sell historic spending plans in speech to Congress
Australia warns Google and Apple over app stores
Richard Pusey: Australian jailed for filming dying officers
Mon Laferte: Chile's pop export on repression and injustice
Kuwait: Murder spurs demands for greater safety for women
Kenyans bitter over al-Qaeda US embassy compensation snub
Why India's Covid crisis matters to the whole world
India coronavirus: Can it make enough vaccines to meet demand?
India Covid: 'Sister help us, doctor help us – you’re God'
Why a US photographer says 'sorry for the war'
Birds of Oz: The charming natives that found TikTok fame
Greek Euro MP Lagos arrested to face neo-Nazi jail term
Michael Jackson: Court dismisses lawsuit from accuser Wade Robson
Game of Thrones: House Of The Dragon production begins with cast table read
No sign of infection after test concert in Spain, researchers say
Pink Supermoon seen around the world
Burkina Faso ambush: Spanish and Irish nationals seized
Cyber-attack hackers threaten to share US police informant data
West Virginia to give young people $100 bond to get vaccine
French warn UK ahead of vote on Brexit trade deal
India Covid-19: Delhi adds makeshift crematoriums as deaths climb
India Covid: First UK aid arrives as coronavirus deaths mount
Israel committing crimes of apartheid and persecution - HRW

Monday, April 26, 2021

Tesla: Bitcoin sales, environmental credits boost profits
US police mock dementia sufferer in 'torture' arrest
Five things to know about Apple's iOS update
Gavin Newsom: California's governor faces recall election
Nigeria: The community that trades by barter instead of money
Sofagate: EU chief Ursula von der Leyen blames sexism for Turkey chair snub
India Covid: The messages deciding between life and death
Afghan interpreters rejected for resettlement 'face death' after UK exit
Covid-19 in India: Visual guide to the crisis
France-Algeria relations: The lingering fallout from nuclear tests in the Sahara
Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?
British Oscar winners celebrate with parties and sausage rolls
Iran's Zarif criticises Revolutionary Guards' influence in leaked tape
Covid: Google and Microsoft bosses pledge support to India
Video shows doomed submarine crew singing
Peruvian vaccine scandal politician gets Covid
US woman pays price for non-returned Sabrina the Teenage Witch rental
Navalny support network ordered to stop Russia-wide activities
Ivory Coast suspends all driving test staff as road deaths rise
US teen's Snapchat rant reaches Supreme Court in free speech case
Mozambique gas project: Total halts work after Palma attacks
Covid-19: EU hints at summer return for US travellers
Ingenuity Mars helicopter makes third successful flight
Covid: Perth ends lockdown after Covid cases contained

Sunday, April 25, 2021

India Covid: Anger as Twitter ordered to remove critical virus posts
Singapore and Hong Kong to open travel bubble
Turkmenistan celebrates new holiday to honour native dog breed
India Covid: Patients struggle at home as hospitals choke
'I will not return to work': Myanmar coup cripples healthcare system
The salmon you buy in the future may be farmed on land
Facebook v Apple: The ad tracking row heats up
Chernobyl nuclear disaster: ‘Three-day evacuation lasted 35 years’
'Apocalyptic' landscape in aftermath of volcanic eruptions on St Vincent.
Space junk map tracks 200 ‘ticking time bombs’
Chad crisis: Army refuses to negotiate with rebel 'outlaws'
India Covid: 'A person cannot even die peacefully in Delhi'
German opera star Christa Ludwig dies at the age of 93
Covid: Countries send aid to ease India's oxygen emergency
Oscars 2021: The railway station now a hosting venue
Somalia violence: Rival units fight amid row over president's term
Indonesian navy submarine found split into three on sea bed
Man jumps through car window to stop dangerous driver in Albania
Alber Elbaz: Fashion designer dies in Paris aged 59
UFC 261: Kamaru Usman knocks out Jorge Masvidal to cap incredible night in Jacksonville
European Super League: 'A seismic, pivotal week in football - but game not yet over'
Menstrual leave: South Korea airline ex-CEO fined for refusing time off
ICYMI: Chinese kite festival and a whale in Italy
India Covid: Patients dying without oxygen amid Delhi surge

Saturday, April 24, 2021

Covid: India sets another infection record as US shows concern
Can Western brands recover from consumer backlash in China?
Iraq Covid hospital fire: At least 23 dead after 'oxygen tank explodes'
Brazil: Environment police battle for Amazon rainforest
Deaths climb as India reels from deadly Covid wave
Ghana basks in Twitter’s surprise choice as Africa HQ
Sierra Leone: 'Covid-19 will go, we need to focus on malaria'
How Armel Zola is helping people to 'stay positive' at home
Oscars 2021: 'I don't mind being the underdog'
Deep Time study: French volunteers leave cave after 40 days in isolation
Afghanistan War: How can the West fight terrorism after leaving?
Clubs cannot leave Super League, says Perez
Covid: Man arrested after infecting 22 people in Majorca
Biden says Armenian mass killing was genocide
Vebitcoin: Turkey arrests four people after cryptocurrency collapses
Chad after Idriss Déby: African Union urges end to military rule
Nepal opens replica Dharahara Tower in Kathmandu
Zanzibar halts fishing as storm Jobo approaches Tanzania
Hugs of welcome for new arrivals on space station
Indonesian submarine sank off Bali, navy says
Brazil cuts environment budget despite climate summit pledge
India Covid surge: Hospitals send SOS as record deaths registered

Friday, April 23, 2021

Covid-19: Israel records no daily deaths for the first time in 10 months
Week in pictures: 17 - 23 April 2021
Myanmar: Military chief set to make first foreign trip since coup
India Covid crisis: Did election rallies help spread virus?
Palestinian election: Leaders face reckoning as rare vote looms
Telegram misogyny: 'They wanted to tie me and my child to a horse'
Mental health: Trauma, genocide and my invisible illness
It's the Oscars 2021 - but how many people have seen the main films?
Iceland volcano eruption: Music video and wedding filmed at Fagradalsfjall
Tokyo Olympics: The challenges of training in a Covid pandemic
Capitol riot: Man accused after Bumble dating app boast
US Dragon crewship launches to space station
Isa Pantami: The Nigerian minister haunted by extremist views
India Covid crisis: Hospitals buckle under record surge
Shock G: Digital Underground's The Humpty Dance rapper dies, aged 57
India is running out of oxygen again. This time it's much worse
Watch: Moment pet dog runs on to high school race track and wins relay event
Idriss Déby: Chad funeral for president killed by rebels
Daunte Wright funeral: As Minneapolis mourns, what next for police reform?
Mount Everest: Coronavirus reaches world's tallest peak
US joins race to find stricken Indonesia submarine

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Covid-19: Patients die in Indian hospital ICU fire
US President Joe Biden to 'propose hiking tax on rich'
Dozens injured in East Jerusalem clashes
Three abducted Catholic clergy released in Haiti
Coronavirus: Tokyo Motor Show cancelled for first time in 67 years
Tesla's Autopilot 'tricked' to operate without driver
Australia resists calls for tougher climate targets
Chernobyl radiation damage 'not passed to children'
The Indonesian island that could host Elon Musk's new SpaceX site
Africa's week in pictures: 16-22 April 2021
Afghanistan: Have things improved since the Taliban?
European Super League: Why were there no teams from Germany?
Russia to pull troops back from near Ukraine
Biden urges action to tackle 'existential crisis' at virtual climate summit
Coronavirus: Pfizer confirms fake versions of vaccine in Poland and Mexico
Brazil crime: One of world's biggest arms traffickers recaptured
Malta Golden passports: 'Loopholes' found in citizenship scheme
Brahim Bouhlel and Zbarbooking jailed in Morocco over video
AI unlocks ancient Dead Sea Scrolls mystery
Syrian air-defence missile lands near Israeli nuclear site
European Super League Q&A: Why it failed - and will clubs try again?
Big Dog's Backyard Ultra: The toughest, weirdest race you've never heard of

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Billionaire Sir James Dyson moves residency back to the UK
India Covid: Delhi high court criticises 'ridiculous' oxygen shortage
Australia provokes China anger over scrapped deals
Google and Apple attacked on app store 'monopoly'
Climate change: Biden summit to push for 'immediate' action
India's second wave: 'We were not prepared'
Oscars 2021: Why Two Distant Strangers is 'important and necessary'
What's gone wrong with Australia's vaccine rollout?
Gerd: Sudan talks tough with Ethiopia over River Nile dam
Afghan War: Do Americans support Biden pulling out?
Alexei Navalny: Police detain hundreds of protesters across Russia
ASMR: Why is it being used more in the music industry?
Climate Basics: Your carbon footprint explained
Female engineers behind Ghana's solar cars
Football Super League cannot proceed - Agnelli
Climate change: EU to cut CO2 emissions by 55% by 2030
Russia's Putin gives key speech amid tensions with West
Daily Mail owner sues Google over search results
George Floyd: Family reacts to Derek Chauvin murder conviction
George Floyd: Chauvin conviction a giant step forward, says Biden
Chad's President Idriss Déby is one of Africa's longest-serving leaders
Scammers steal $32m from 90-year old Hong Kong woman
George Floyd: The murder that drove America to the brink
TikTok sued for billions over use of children's data
Netflix shares plunge amid fears coronavirus boom is over

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Ohio shooting: Columbus police shoot dead black teenage girl
Is the Australia-NZ travel bubble the way ahead?
Middle East states dominate list of top executioners in 2020 - Amnesty
US jury finds Derek Chauvin guilty of all counts
The beauty ideal fuelling an illicit drugs trade
India Covid-19 second wave: Shortage of oxygen, beds and even cremation slots
Coronapas: The passport helping Denmark open up after Covid
Navalny's supporters fear Russia's Putin wants him dead
Idriss Déby: Chad's future rocked by president's battlefield death
Oscars 2021: The lowdown on the international feature nominees
Surfer reunited with big wave board discovered 2,700km away
France seeks conspiracy theorist over kidnapping
Covid-19: US to advise against travel to 80% of countries
Big cats: US senators seek ban on private ownership of lions and tigers
European Super League: 'We want to save football' says chairman Perez
Super League 'created to save football'

Monday, April 19, 2021

Climate change: Carbon 'surge' expected in post-Covid energy boom
European Super League: What happens next?
Facebook creates Clubhouse clone Live Audio Rooms
India to start vaccinating all adults over 18 amid surge in infections
James Charles: YouTube temporarily demonetises beauty influencer
New Zealand airport worker tests positive day after bubble opens
Brian Sicknick: US Capitol riot policeman 'died of natural causes'
Former US Vice-President Walter Mondale dies aged 93
Covid in Uttar Pradesh: Coronavirus overwhelms India's most populous state
Germany conservatives: Armin Laschet backed by Merkel party in chancellor race
Drought-hit Taiwan rations water to protect tech
How a bicycle tripled one woman's income
'Russia is heading for a catastrophe'
Redonda: The Caribbean island transformed into an eco haven
The Ugandan mum who was once ashamed of her gay son
George Floyd death: Three Americans assess Derek Chauvin trial
Oscars 2021: 19 geeky facts from Borat to Boseman
Derek Chauvin trial: Key moments from 14 days of testimony
The GRU: Blast puts spotlight on shadowy Russian force
George Floyd death: Five key moments from the Derek Chauvin trial
Namibian court denies entry to gay couple's surrogate daughters
Table Mountain fire: Residents evacuated in Cape Town suburb
Annalena Baerbock: Woman who could be Germany's next chancellor
Moment Nasa reacts to successful Ingenuity flight
Nasa successfully flies small helicopter on Mars
Two men killed in Tesla car crash 'without driver' in seat
Russia moves ailing Putin critic Navalny to prison hospital
Facebook: Our staff can carry on working from home after Covid
Australia New Zealand bubble: Emotional families reunite as quarantine-free travel begins
India coronavirus: Delhi announces lockdown as Covid cases surge
Egypt's second deadly rail accident in a month kills 11
Spain dismantles workshop making 3D-printed weapons
The best climate solution you've never heard of

Sunday, April 18, 2021

Abba: Why the UK gave the Swedish band 'nul points' at Eurovision
Byron Bay: Calls for Netflix boycott over reality show plans
Super League: Why are football's biggest clubs starting new tournament?
Australia opens travel bubble with New Zealand
Libya: Ten years on the front line
Time: A love story coloured by incarceration
How product placements may soon be added to classic films
Covid-19 vaccines: What's happening to unused jabs?
Russia expels Czech diplomats over explosion row
European Super League: Premier League's 'Big Six' agree to join new league
Russia will face 'consequences' if Navalny dies - US
France kidnapping: Girl found with mother accused of ordering abduction
European Super League: Uefa furious at 11 major clubs signing up to breakaway plans
ICYMI: Underwater tango, a cosmo-panda and happy penguins
Table Mountain fire 'burns out of control' in Cape Town
Indianapolis gunman bought rifles despite earlier gun confiscation
Salisbury poisoning suspects 'linked to Czech blast'
Putin critic Navalny 'will not be allowed to die in prison'
Syria to hold election in May after years of war
Mars helicopter first flight: Nasa to test Ingenuity
Plane ditches in ocean during Florida airshow

Saturday, April 17, 2021

China and US pledge climate change commitment
Covid in Brazil: Pandemic meets poverty in growing crisis
How cancer put me off joining Amazon union
India's first 'intimacy coordinator' helps choreograph sex on screen
JD Vance: Trump whisperer turned Senate hopeful
Sindi van Zyl: The 'people's doctor' who revealed her own struggles
Russia Ukraine conflict: Fact-checking Russian TV's Ukraine claims
Regulator warns against use of Peloton treadmill
These teenage climate activists are pushing for change in Australia
The Zurich students living cheaply in a luxury hotel
Liam Scarlett: Former Royal Ballet choreographer dies at 35
Indianapolis FedEx shooting: Who were the eight victims?
Putin critic Navalny could 'die within days', say doctors
Iran nuclear: State TV names suspect in Natanz attack
Covid-19 deaths pass three million worldwide
Philippines: Giant clam shells worth $25m seized in raid

Friday, April 16, 2021

Brazil 'needs $10bn to reach zero emissions' says minister
Facebook board delays decision about Trump's possible return
On the front line in eastern Ukraine
Sputnik V: How Russia's Covid vaccine is dividing Europe
20 years in Afghanistan: Was it worth it?
India's Kumbh festival attracts big crowds amid devastating second Covid wave
Why IS involvement in Mozambique is exaggerated
Nepal fires: 'We saw huge flames coming towards our garden’
Hijab regulations: Two women's experience
In pictures: Raúl Castro's career over six decades
Covid: Canada sounds the alarm as cases overtake US
Biden keeps historically low Trump era cap on refugees
Covid: Michelin-starred Amsterdam restaurant's €20 takeaway burgers
France Mia kidnapping: Four men held over abduction of girl aged 8
Breonna Taylor: Publisher refuses to distribute police officer's book
Afghanistan war: US spies doubt reports of Russian 'bounties' for troops
'Whitest ever' paint reflects 98% of sunlight
Footballer and family robbed at home in Italy
TB Joshua: YouTube blocks Nigerian preacher over gay cure claim
Indianapolis mass shooting: 'Emotions are very high' after shooting at FedEx facility
Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai sentenced to one year for pro-democracy protests
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang: Arsenal forward treated in hospital for malaria
Indianapolis mass shooting: Many casualties at FedEx facility
Titanic: Searching for the 'missing' Chinese survivors

Thursday, April 15, 2021

China's economy grows 18.3% in post-Covid comeback
How sex surrogates are helping injured Israeli soldiers
Adam Toledo: Chicago releases video of police shooting boy
Chile sees Covid surge despite vaccination success
Jimmy Lai: The Hong Kong billionaire risking it all by speaking out
India's desperate Covid-19 patients turn to black market for drugs
How George Floyd's death changed a small Iowa town
Why Aboriginal people are still dying in police custody
William Amos: Canadian politician seen naked in work Zoom call
Bolivian minister 'took bag stuffed with $20,000'
Russian court sentences Navalny ally Lyubov Sobol for trespass
Google Earth time-lapse feature winds clock back 37 years
Macron visits Notre Dame two years after fire
France urges citizens to leave Pakistan amid anti-French protests
Kanye West's $1m Yeezy shoes are 'most valuable to go on auction'
Facebook urged to scrap Instagram for children plans
Texas students disciplined over 'slave trade game'
Mystery tree beast turns out to be croissant
Why Australia is in hysterics over a 'navy twerking' dance

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Instagram fixes ‘mistake’ promoting harmful diet content
Psilocybin: Magic mushroom compound 'promising' for depression
US poised to sanction Russia for cyber-attacks
India coronavirus second wave: ‘A Covid tsunami we had never seen before’
St Vincent volcano: UN warns humanitarian crisis will last months
Torres Strait 8: Australian Islanders in landmark climate fight
Afghanistan: 'We have won the war, America has lost', say Taliban
Why are so many babies dying of Covid-19 in Brazil?
Why Russia may not be planning invasion Ukraine fears
Is Alibaba's fate a warning to China’s tech giants?
'My mother's fertility doctor is my father'
Senegal: The HIV success story that’s failing gay men
Hungary footballers' row exposes gay rights split
Daunte Wright aunt: 'He was loved, he was ours'
Russia to consider Biden plan for Putin summit
Omegle: 'I'm being used as sex-baiting bot' on video chat site
Stolen Roman statue found in Brussels antique shop
Mayan urn returned to Mexico by Albion College
Ludwig Ahgren breaks Twitch subscription record after 31-day stint
Egypt seizes ship that blocked Suez Canal over $900m compensation claim
Niger school blaze: Trapped children die in Niamey
St Vincent volcano: Island covered in layer of grey as La Soufriere erupts
Louisiana ship capsize: Search for survivors from 'lift' vessel
Hundreds test positive for Covid at Hindu festival
Chinese man kidnapped and killed in elaborate body swap scheme

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Afghans face pivotal moment as US prepares to 'close the book'
Neighbours: Actress Sharon Johal also alleges racism on soap
NZ to launch world-first climate change rules
Grab set for $40bn valuation in US share listing
US seeks China climate agreements ahead of Biden summit
Iran nuclear deal: Shadow of sabotage hangs over critical talks
Covid: 'Israel may be reaching herd immunity'
Why $30m didn't protect Nigerian pupils after Chibok
Why 'stay-at-home parent' is a job title
The student loan bubble 'is going to burst'
Ville de Bitche: Facebook mistakenly removes French town's page
Ramadan begins around the world amid Covid restrictions
Daunte Wright: Bodycam footage shows arrest
Covid-19: US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine
Haiti's Moïse 'won't give up' on freeing kidnapped clergy
Brazil coronavirus: Inside the crisis
The Simpsons: Hank Azaria apologises for voicing Indian character Apu
Daunte Wright shooting: Dozens arrested in fresh unrest in Minnesota
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West agree joint custody after divorce
Covid: Return to normality won't be a light switch moment, says Fauci

Monday, April 12, 2021

Taiwan: 'Record number' of China jets enter airspace
Fukushima: Japan approves releasing wastewater into ocean
Gruppe S: German far-right group on trial for 'terror plot'
Sputnik V: What we know about India's Covid-19 vaccines
World's wealthiest 'at heart of climate problem'
George Floyd death: The prosecution's case against Derek Chauvin
Saving the kelp forest that stars in My Octopus Teacher
Iran and Israel's shadow war takes a dangerous turn
Myanmar coup: The people shot dead since the protests began
Somaliland and Taiwan: Two territories with few friends but each other
The exchange project uniting young Americans during the pandemic
Covid accelerates India's millionaire exodus
The anti-vax movement targeting German children
George Floyd's younger sibling tells court: 'I miss my brother'
Minneapolis: Daunte Wright shooting by police 'accidental'
Manhunt after 'execution' shooting in Paris
Iran nuclear attack: Mystery surrounds nuclear sabotage at Natanz
Will Smith's slavery film Emancipation pulls out of Georgia over voting laws
Nevskaya Manufaktura: Fire destroys historic factory in St Petersburg
Minneapolis: Daunte Wright killing by police sparks unrest
France moves to ban short-haul domestic flights
Police officer who pepper-sprayed US Army soldier fired
Joseph Siravo: The Sopranos and Jersey Boys star dies aged 64
Neighbours star says cast members tried to get her deported
Iran vows revenge for 'Israeli' attack on Natanz nuclear site
Haridwar: Crowds surging at India's Kumbh Mela amid deadly Covid wave

Sunday, April 11, 2021

Protests near Minneapolis after black man shot dead by police
Prince Philip: The Vanuatu tribes mourning the death of their 'god'
Guillermo Lasso: Conservative ex-banker elected Ecuador president
St Vincent volcano: Eruptions likely in coming days, experts warn
Chinese official says local vaccines 'don't have high protection rates'
Alibaba accepts record China fine and vows to change
Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space
Camille Pissarro: Transatlantic struggle for painting stolen by Nazis
Why India's forest fires are worrying scientists
Being mixed race like Kamala Harris: 'I feel just as Indian as I feel black'
Markus Söder joins German chancellor race
Cambodia criticises edited photos of Khmer Rouge victims
Iran nuclear: 'Terrorist act' at underground Natanz facility
New Christ statue in Brazil's Encantado to be taller than Rio's
Sydney remembers Prince Philip: ‘We feel more connected now’
Jordan royal family pictured together following 'royal rift'
US army officer sues police over violent traffic stop
Elephant calf rescued from bottom of well in India
Chad presidential election: Voters head to the polls amid a boycott
US soldier faces guns and pepper spray in traffic stop
St Vincent volcano: Power cuts after another 'explosive event'
Benin elections: The fight for a democratic future
Cyclone Seroja: Western Australia braces as category two storm nears
Serpent star Tahar Rahim on Bafta awards nomination
How Prince Philip's death was reported worldwide

Saturday, April 10, 2021

China mine rescue: Crews race to free trapped workers in Xinjiang
Covid-19: India vaccination crosses 100 million doses
Ecuador picks president under the shadow of Covid
Moscow's palatial Yeliseyevsky food hall closes after 120 years
Ghana's farmers eye sweet success from chocolate
Saving green turtles... by cooling their eggs
Myanmar coup: 'Dozens killed' in military crackdown in Bago
Ash falls like snow after St Vincent volcano eruption
Giorgos Karaivaz: Veteran crime journalist shot dead in Greece
Saint Vincent volcano: Island awakes to ash and sulphur smell
Covid: Over 100 Paris restaurant diners fined for violating rules
Alibaba: Chinese regulator slaps huge fine on tech giant
Prince Philip: Biden, Ardern and other world leaders pay tribute to Duke of Edinburgh

Friday, April 9, 2021

Coronavirus: WHO chief criticises 'shocking' global vaccine divide
Myanmar citizens flee to India to escape violence
South African artists struggle with Covid theatre closures
From 'Porky' to goalie: Peru's presidential candidates
Derek Chauvin trial: Police restraint killed George Floyd, expert says
Obituary: DMX, the record-breaking rapper with bark and bite
Save our wine! Big freeze spells disaster for French vineyards
Saint Vincent volcano: Soufrière erupts amid mass evacuation
Prince Philip: World leaders react to death of the Duke of Edinburgh
Israel to ignore ICC war crimes investigation
Antiretrovirals: Plight of HIV patients over ARV drug shortage in Kenya
Driver found with corpse on wrong side of highway
Ocean noise: Study to measure the oceans' 'year of quiet'
Greta Thunberg: I don't think I'll be going to COP26
'Lost golden city' found in Egypt reveals lives of ancient pharaohs

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Taiwan drought helps man retrieve phone dropped in lake a year ago
North Korea: Kim Jong-un warns of 'difficult' crisis
South Korea says tanker and captain detained in Iran released
Covid: Australia faces vaccine delays after changing AstraZeneca advice
Amazon holds early lead in historic union election
'Satan Shoes' to be recalled as Nike agrees to settle lawsuit
Covid-19: Why have deaths soared in Brazil?
Deep sea mining to help make electric vehicles
Sexual health: 'I can't tell my mum I'm having sex'
Markus Söder: Star Trek fan who could boldly go and lead Germany
How US history explains vaccine passport scepticism
Is Netflix's Seaspiracy film right about fishing damaging oceans?
Kyrgyzstan: Fury over death of 'bride kidnapping' victim
Zach Avery: Hollywood actor arrested over $690m scam scheme
Milk Tea Alliance: Twitter creates emoji for pro-democracy activists
Myanmar's ex-ambassador locked out of embassy
Turkey blames EU in 'sofagate' diplomatic spat
Neighbours: Independent review launched over racism claims