Omicron crushed delta in the U.S. These numbers show just how fast it happened
If it felt like omicron exploded with mind-boggling speed, a new look at the numbers backs that up. The highly contagious coronavirus variant achieved...
World Pulses Day empowers youth, for sustainable ‘agrifood’ systems
The UN marks World Pulses Day on Thursday, this year celebrating how these nutritious beans, grains and seeds, crucial to so many cuisines worldwide, can empower...
Storybook Apps Turn African Students Into Writers
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Feb 10 (IPS) – Suwaiba Hassan published an engrossing story. She used online using digital; apps that are giving literacy a boost....
It Isnt Easy Being a Journalist in Kashmir
Feb 10 (IPS) – My name is Bisma Bhat and I am a journalist in Srinagar, Kashmir. I currently work as a features writer...
Fossils reveal what may be the oldest known case of the dino sniffles
The prehistoric world wasn’t a paradise free of disease, but diagnosing ancient ailments is tricky: Germs usually don’t fossilize well. Now, though, researchers have...
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Feb 10 (IPS) – The global consensus about an international treaty on pandemic prevention is certainly a milestone towards the creation of...
WHO highlights benefits and dangers of artificial intelligence for older people
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can improve older people’s health and well-being, but only if ageism is eliminated from their design, implementation, and use, said the World...
World leaders call for $23 billion to end pandemic this year
The COVID-19 pandemic could be defeated this year but only if vaccines, tests and treatments are made available to all people, UN Secretary-General António...
Battle against Da’esh, a ‘long-term game’, Voronkov tells Security Council
The global fight against the shadowy, ever-morphing threat posed by the ISIL terrorist group – known officially as Da’esh – and its affiliates, remains...
On the last day of a five-day trip to Ethiopia, the Deputy Secretary-General said the East African nation is in “a much better place” to resolve the conflict that erupted 15 months...
Hunger is ‘an avoidable tragedy’ in a world of plenty: Türk 
UN condemns deadly wave of drone strikes in war-torn Sudan 
Guterres honours Indonesian troops who paid ‘ultimate sacrifice’ 
‘Season of fear’: Escalating Israeli attacks on West Bank olive farmers, deadly strikes on Gaza