America’s CEOs have advice for Biden’s long road ahead
More than two dozen leading chief executives offer advice to the incoming Biden administration.
There’s a new coronavirus variant in the UK. Here’s what we know.
Vaccines will likely work just as well against the variant.
The UK is sending robot submarines to watch the world’s largest iceberg crash into an island
The world’s largest iceberg appears days away from crashing into a penguin-filled island. These robots will study the aftermath.
Boko Haram claims to have kidnapped Nigerian schoolboys, in unverified audio message
A man claiming to be a leader of Boko Haram said the terror group was responsible for kidnapping scores of schoolboys in northwestern Nigeria...
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 15 (IPS) – Just before the World Health Assembly (WHA), an 18 May open letter by world leaders and...
Japan ‘Twitter killer’ sentenced to death for nine murders
Author: AFP ID: 1608028380257363400 Tue, 2020-12-15 10:22 TOKYO: A Japanese man dubbed the “Twitter killer” was sentenced to death by a Tokyo court on...
Fire at Russian retirement home kills 11
Author: Associated Press ID: 1608033074567554100 Tue, 2020-12-15 11:46 MOSCOW: A fire in a retirement home in Russia’s southern Urals killed 11 people while three...
Russia reports 26,689 new coronavirus cases, 577 deaths
Author: Reuters ID: 1608035229727695100 Tue, 2020-12-15 08:20 MOSCOW: Russia on Tuesday reported 26,689 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, including 5,418 in...
Over 570,000 Uighurs involved in China cotton coerced labor
Author: AFP ID: 1608038333987871500 Tue, 2020-12-15 10:48 BEIJING: Hundreds of thousands of ethnic minority laborers in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are being forced to...
Alleged Qatari expert ‘does not rule out’ French intelligence role in Samuel Paty murder
Tue, 2020-12-15 16:26 LONDON: An alleged Qatari expert on French affairs said that he does not rule out the involvement of French intelligence in the...
Ebola: Motorbike riders carrying the sick may hold key to response boost 
Security Council LIVE: Drone strikes and political impasse in Libya 
Shrews’ noses grow in winter as their brains shrink 
Nairobi Biodiversity Talks Set the Stage for Key COP17 Decisions