Russia's President Vladimir Putin will not attend COP26 in Glasgow at the end of the month in what is being seen as another major blow for the climate summit.A Kremlin spokesman said other representatives...

Children aged five to 11 in the US will soon be able to get a COVID-19 jab, the White House has announced. Officials say the expected authorisation of the Pfizer vaccine for younger children...

"Afghanistan was a silent country, a silenced nation," says Ahmad Sarmast, founder and director of the country's National Institute of Music. "And the same is happening again today."Having spent more than a decade encouraging...

Brazil's president should face homicide charges over errors that led to an estimated 95,000 COVID-19 deaths, a draft of a major inquiry report has found.With more than 600,000 deaths, only the US has lost...

At least 14 people have been killed after an explosion destroyed a bus in the Syrian capital of Damascus.A local television station said two roadside explosive devices went off as the bus was on...

A ransom of $1m (GBP720,000) is being demanded for each of the 17 American and Canadian missionaries kidnapped in Haiti.The country's justice minister, Liszt Quitel, said talks are under way with gang to release...

Glaciers will melt at a fast rate and eventually vanish completely if climate change is not halted, scientists have warned.It comes after glaciologists ventured inside otherworldly ice caves growing beneath Austria's doomed glaciers to...

At least three children were killed and one other person was injured during an airstrike in the capital of the Tigray region in Ethiopia on Monday, the United Nations has said.A deadly conflict erupted...