The video used during a presentation by Taiwanese Digital Minister Audrey Tang caused an immediate flurry of emails among US officials.

Positive cases to be followed along the streets, their contacts and mask-wearing habits recorded, in new program going live in January despite privacy concerns.

Beyond the laughs, analysts see an effort to improve the image of a leader in need of support in a country struggling through a years-long crisis.

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US prosecutors have presented a succession of women making powerful accusations against Ghislaine Maxwell, but one large elephant remains in the room.

The plane is based on a design of a Two-Stage Vehicle X-plane by Ming Han Tang, the Chinese-born chief engineer of NASA’s early hypersonic program in the late 1990s. 

In a televised statement, PM Boris Johnson said British adults would be offered a third shot of vaccine by the end of this month in response to the Omicron “emergency”.

At least 100 people were believed to have been killed in Kentucky alone after the tornadoes tore through the US Midwest and South on Friday night.

Wallace’s announcement even took the guests on his show Sunday by surprise; they were not tipped off ahead of time.

International sanctions against the Taliban have made it difficult to get funds into the country since the group took power in August.

Its latest Defence Assessment shows New Zealand raising the alarm.

At a meeting in England on Sunday, G7 delegates said they were united in their condemnation of Russia’s military build-up near Ukraine.

Voters in New Caledonia have rejected independence in a referendum boycotted by separatist groups and closely watched around the South Pacific.

Boris Johnson, engulfed by a string of scandals that have outraged the public, faces fresh allegations he broke lockdown rules by hosting a Christmas quiz.

New Zealand health authorities say that despite all the doses, the man won’t have stronger immunity from COVID-19.

There is a strong humanitarian and pragmatic argument for freeing the WikiLeaks founder.

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Barbara Richards made a horrifying discovery as she looked out the glass door of the Monette Manor nursing home. A tornado was heading straight for her.

Julian Assange suffered a stroke during his High Court appeal, his fiancee Stella Moris has revealed on social media.

Doctors and medical experts suspect that the Omicron version really is causing milder COVID-19 than Delta, even if it seems to be spreading faster.

At least 100 people were killed in a devastating outbreak of tornadoes that ripped through Kentucky and several other US states.

The defence has tried hard to portray the accusers’ testimony as tainted by faulty memories, drug abuse and the millions of dollars they’ve received from Epstein’s estate.

Amid fears Asia’s fourth-largest economy is being left behind by the members of the Quad, South Korea’s President will look to lock in US support via Australia.

The eldest daughter of pioneering US astronaut Alan Shepard took a joyride to the edge of space aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocketship on Saturday, 60 years after her late father’s famed suborbital NASA flight at the dawn of the Space Age.

The document recommended that then president Donald Trump declare a national emergency to delay the certification of the election results.

The US had frozen the supply of funds to the country after the Taliban takeover in August.

Annie Farmer was the last accuser to testify in the British socialite’s trial. The defence will begin to put its case next week.

The Biden administration said that Australia would join the US, Denmark, Norway and others in an initiative to curb the sale of tech products that are used to aid repression.

A singer-songwriter, author, actor-director and entrepreneur, whose videos gave way to MTV, has died shortly after concluding a farewell tour.

The British Prime Minister has always lived his private life in chaos – now he’s governing the country that way.

The US government has won its appeal to overturn a previous UK court decision and is a step closer to extraditing the Wikileaks’ founder.

With less than two months to go before the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, Beijing is once again in the middle of a diplomatic storm.

Democracies must deliver for their own people and they must rediscover a formula for social harmony and economic prosperity. To do so, they have to lift their game.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his British counterpart Boris Johnson have confirmed their countries will join a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

The high-level meeting between half-a-dozen Chinese executives and their Australian counterparts is the first sign that Beijing is re-engaging with Australian firms.

In a post-truth world dominated by online conspiracy theories, young people have coalesced around the effort to thumb their nose at, fight and poke fun at misinformation.

The French leader is using his six-month stint at the top of Europe as a reelection pitch aimed at French voters looking for a strong leader.

Two brothers, Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, testified the Empire star paid them to participate in a phony attack and instructed them how to attack him.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has been questioned in Parliament about the decision last year by her government, which resulted in the loss of 5000 jobs in Denmark — and also turned out to be illegal.

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Most worrying, the US president said, was the sense that people around the world feel democratic governments are failing to deliver for their needs.

A report from the Berlin-based AlgorithmWatch concludes the technology has failed to end the pandemic and now threatens to make such monitoring widely accepted.

On December 10, 1996, after more than six years of negotiations with black and white leaders, Nelson Mandela made South Africa’s new constitution law.

Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie Johnson have welcomed a baby girl – their second child together and the British Prime Minister’s seventh.

A notice in the US Federal Register said developments in Cambodia were “contrary to US national security and foreign policy interests”.

The US President wants to promote global democracy and defeat China in the battle for global supremacy, but those goals may be in conflict.

Researchers at Yale School of medicine have found that the coronavirus infects both fat cells and immune cells within body fat, prompting damaging responses.

The British Prime Minister came under sustained attack by the opposition and his own MPs as he attempted to distance himself from a new scandal.

“People aged 14 when the law comes into effect will never be able to legally purchase tobacco.”