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Huge crocodile eats 8-year-old girl alive in front of friends, remains found after 2 days

Locals rushed to the scene and managed to stab the crocodile with a spear as the girl's face was visibly sticking out of the mouth.

Oct 18, 2021

By Suman Varandani

12-year-old who died from Covid 6 days after developing minor cough had a rare condition

The syndrome may have contributed to the girl\'s death but it did not lead to it

Oct 15, 2021

By Naina Raghavan

US Navy says sailors who refuse vaccine will be expelled

The navy said that 98 percent of its 350,000 active duty members had begun or completed the vaccination process.

Oct 15, 2021

By AFP News

Death threats, law suits: Covid experts targeted

Scientists who have spoken publicly about Covid-19 have been subjected to abuse

Oct 14, 2021

By Natalie Handel

How Serbia became the world's latest Covid hotspot

The country has long been a hotbed of misinformation about vaccination

Oct 12, 2021

By Miodrag Sovilj

UK Govt fumbled start of Covid crisis: MPs' probe

Britain had also been too slow to introduce the isolation of infected people and their households

Oct 12, 2021

By AFP News

United Kingdom London

Rain-sodden Sydney ends lockdown after 106 days

There will still be limits on mass gatherings and international borders and schools will not fully reopen for a few weeks yet.

Oct 11, 2021

By Andrew Beatty

Climate justice: Rich nations dodge finance pledge

One of the biggest challenges facing climate negotiations is a deficit of trust among parties, and climate finance may be the most fraught issue on the table.

Oct 11, 2021

By Stephane Orjollet

Climate Change United Nations

Pfizer seeks US authorization of Covid vaccine for ages 5-11

While younger children are less likely to develop severe cases, they can still become sick and transmit the virus to the general population.

Oct 8, 2021

By Becca Milfeld

Pair win Nobel for tool that made chemistry leaner and greener

List and MacMillan, both 53, will share the 10-million-kronor ($1.1-million, one-million-euro) prize.

Oct 7, 2021

By Johannes Ledel, with Pia Ohlin

Mystery fever kills 24 children; 8 kids die within hours of being infected

The death toll due to the fever has reached 24

Oct 6, 2021

By Naina Raghavan

India

Global warming kills 14 percent of world's corals in a decade

Loss of coral from 2009 to 2018 varied by region, ranging from five percent in East Asia to 95 percent in the eastern tropical Pacific.

Oct 5, 2021

By Marlowe Hood

Climate Change

Japan's new PM Kishida says virus fight 'top priority'

Kishida easily won Monday's vote in parliament to confirm him as prime minister

Oct 5, 2021

By Shingo Ito, Sara Hussein

Japan

Keep up climate pressure, UN chief tells youth

The COP26 UN climate summit, which begins October 31 in Glasgow, is being billed as crucial to the continued success of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Sep 30, 2021

By AFP News

United Nations Climate Change

From mines to Covid: Cambodia dogs train to sniff out virus

Other countries deploying dogs in the fight against Covid include Ecuador and Italy

Sep 29, 2021

By AFP News

United Airlines Chief Executive Scott Kirby

United Airlines to dismiss 593 workers who refused vaccines

More than 99 percent of the remaining US staff complied with the requirement

Sep 29, 2021

By AFP News

Ford announces $11.4 bn investment for electric vehicle production

The company expects that between 40 and 50 percent of its global vehicles to be fully electric by 2030

Sep 28, 2021

By AFP News

UN head says world must change food priorities to save planet

Guterres noted that three billion people cannot afford a healthy diet.

Sep 24, 2021

By AFP News

United Nations New York

Biden says US donating 'historic' extra 500 million Covid vaccines

On Tuesday, in his first speech to the United Nations as president, Biden told delegates that Washington had put more than $15 billion towards the global Covid response.

Sep 23, 2021

By Issam Ahmed with Sebastian Smith

United Nations

Johnson says Glasgow climate talks 'turning point for humanity'

Johnson hailed a pledge made a day earlier by Chinese President Xi Jinping to end coal financing overseas

Sep 23, 2021

By AFP News

United Kingdom Climate Change

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