North Korea has carried out a successful test of a hypersonic missile in a launch attended by leader Kim Jong Un, the country's state media has reported.The suspected launch was detected by authorities in...
The options for getting from the Kazakh capital of Nur-Sultan to Almaty, with Almaty's airport shut, aren't great. Eighteen hours by car or a 15 hour train ride. Except there aren't enough seats on...
A nurse has been arrested for pretending to inject COVID-19 vaccines into at least 50 people in exchange for a bribe, police in Italy say.The man in Ancona was caught on video apparently discarding...
A flag bearing a swastika placed on a coffin after a funeral in Italy at which far-right extremists gave Nazi salutes has prompted a wave of condemnation.Rome's Catholic archdiocese said in a statement that...
It is too soon for countries to be treating COVID as an endemic illness like flu, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned, because there is still a "huge amount of uncertainty" regarding the...
About 20 million people in China are now under a stay-at-home order after a third city brought in a strict COVID lockdown.Anyang in Henan province, with a population of 5.5 million, confirmed a lockdown...
The United Nations is seeking a record $5bn (?3.7bn) in aid for Afghanistan this year to help protect the country's future after the Taliban's seizure of power.The appeal includes $4.4bn (?3.3bn) in humanitarian aid...
Global experts are now more worried about the failure to act on the climate crisis than they are about infectious diseases, as the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow and major protest movements brought the...
