More than 28 million "extra years of life" have been lost during the coronavirus pandemic, a new study has found.By comparing the lives cut short by COVID-19 and the estimated normal life spans of...

The US is sanctioning an Israeli spyware company that it accused of supplying technology to foreign governments "to maliciously target government officials, journalists, businesspeople, activists, academics, and embassy workers".NSO Group had been accused of...

Two people have died after a man fell from the seventh floor of a concert hall in Sweden which was about to host an ABBA tribute event.Police said an 80-year-old man died at the...

North Korea is using humanoid robots to teach children subjects like English, maths and music.A toy-like robot with the country's flag on its chest was demonstrated on state television KRT following a push for...

The sight of an extremely rare radiated tortoise inching its way along the dusty curb of a road in southern Madagascar is emblematic of what the country is going through.The creature, with its unusual...

US Navy investigators have identified the "unknown object" that collided with a submarine in the South China Sea in October - an uncharted underwater mountain.The USS Connecticut was in a "safe and stable condition"...

Police who found missing Cleo Smith in a locked house in Australia say they were "shocked" and then "elated" when the four-year-old confirmed: "My name is Cleo." Detective Sergeant Cameron Blaine told reporters they...

Missing four-year-old Cleo Smith has been found "alive and well" after disappearing from a camp site in Western Australia more than two weeks ago.A team from Western Australia Police broke into a locked...