Many US hospitals have refused to transplant organs in unvaccinated patients due to high mortality rates among those who contract COVID-19.

It runs to just 12 pages, but the long-awaited report into the COVID lockdown scandal engulfing Boris Johnson’s government makes explosive reading.

The British PM will turn to his longtime ally, Lynton Crosby, to help save his leadership in the wake of the ‘Partygate’ scandal.

Researchers have unveiled the world’s largest forest database, showing that 2000 more species of tree are to be discovered across Australia and Oceania alone.

On this day in 1952, news broke that King George VI had died, and his elder daughter Princess Elizabeth would be proclaimed the new Queen and Head of the Commonwealth. We revisit the Herald's coverage of that momentous day.

When librarians discovered The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Crismis in the children’s section, they put a bar code on it. Now everyone wants to read it.

The brief clip posted on China’s version of TikTok raised many questions, and social media users demanded answers. Who was she? Why was she locked up?

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Negotiators have agreed to return to the 2015 deal, but the decision must be signed off by Biden and Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Belgium’s minister for public administration said the rule was needed to fight a culture in which workers feel they always need to be available, which has been worsened by the pandemic.

The Morrison government is not doing enough to secure the release of Sean Turnell, an Australian academic and economist, who has spent a year behind bars in Myanmar.

The judge said Andrew and his lawyers would bear all costs of the Australia request, highlighting the financial burden the litigation is placing on the Queen’s second son.

The more allegations that surface, the less their individual impact, but the more collective harm they cause.

Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia accused the Biden administration of “whipping up tensions and rhetoric and provoking escalation”.

The world was warming to China as it showcased its successful modernisation at the 2008 Summer Olympics. But there is a global diplomatic chill in the air ahead of the Beijing 2022 Winter Games.

A Dutch publisher has suspended printing a book that suggested a Jewish notary betrayed Anne Frank.

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As residents prepare for another Chinese New Year under COVID-19 restrictions, Omicron seems to have gotten the better of the city’s defences.

Taiwan’s Foreign Minister is determined to keep international leaders talking about Taiwan’s situation. There are lessons for Australia’s politicians.

German paedophile and suspect Christian Brueckner often carried out repairs at the complex in Portugal where the McCann family stayed, a witness claims.

Families of the 14 peaceful protesters shot dead by British soldiers in 1972 say Britain is still afraid that the truth will come out.

After seven inconclusive rounds of voting, the leaders of Italy’s warring coalition parties on Saturday all but begged Sergio Mattarella to come back, asking him to reconsider for the sake of the country.

With Russian troops massed on the border of Ukraine, the security situation in the Baltic Sea is now more tense than at any time since 1981.

On Sunday, she received her most recent email from the New Zealand government, this one telling her to apply as a person in danger and that this will get her home, she said.

Malik reached the Nordic region and northern Germany on Sunday after moving in from Britain where it caused havoc with material damage and transport chaos.

Harry and Meghan have signed a series of deals to produce and host podcasts for Spotify as part of their efforts to make a living after splitting with the royal family.

On the streets of the Ukrainian capital, most locals still believe Russia won’t invade just because it can, and will meet stiff resistance if it does.

In his first newspaper interview of the year, Taiwan’s Foreign Minister Joseph Wu said that China’s military incursions were “becoming more intimidating than ever”.

The upbeat tone echoes similar messaging from the government, which has complained that the West is spreading hysteria about the Ukraine crisis.

South Korea says this month’s flurry of missile tests is reminiscent of the heightened tensions in 2017, when North Korea conducted multiple nuclear tests.

As the West strives to take a united stance on possible sanctions, Britain is struggling to shake off its reputation as the place to be for wealthy Russians looking to park their billions.

Due to demand brought by relatively high COVID-19 case loads, New Zealanders are being forced into a lottery for about 4500 available quarantine rooms, which cost about $2000 for a couple for 10 days.

The families of the murdered UN experts have challenged the court outcome, saying it fails to hold to account the senior figures who gave ordered the killings.

The former president has given every indication he plans to seek the Republican nomination in 2024.

Since November, the US has been warning European allies that Russia may be preparing to invade Ukraine.

Two nurses from New York are accused of forging COVID-19 vaccination cards and pocketing more than $US1.5 million from the scheme, prosecutors and police said.

Vladimir Putin’s highest-stakes use of the military looks intended to muscle Russia back into the global relevance it lost with the ending of the Cold War.

The former Greens member has been the first person to “come out” as bisexual on the floor of the Arizona state legislature. Now in the US Senate, she’s winning praise from Republicans.

Senior Serbian health officials have previously said that Djokovic’s test was valid and issued by a relevant institution.

Colder regions may experience more cases during winter, while warmer regions may see higher transmissions in the summer.

How to blunt China’s bid to dominate the vital Indo-Pacific region is now a first-order question in global diplomacy.

Visibly moved, Biden gazed across a ravine over the buckled sections of the half-century-old Fern Hollow Bridge, flanked by Pennsylvania emergency workers as he surveyed the damage.

A former British ambassador to Russia says few Kremlin advisers would contradict the Russian President if he decided to invade Ukraine.

“We have already repeatedly stated that our country does not intend to attack anyone,” said Alexei Zaitsev, a ministry spokesman.

The Winter Olympics will mark the high point of China’s latest public relations campaign.

At least 150,000 children have been forced to flee their homes since last February’s military coup and others who remain fear for their lives.

In the graphic novel “Maus”, Jews are drawn as mice and the Nazis are drawn as cats. The school board reportedly took issue with the language and nudity.

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The tiny eastern Baltic state angered Beijing when it said that the Taiwanese office in Vilnius would bear the name ‘Taiwan’ instead of ‘Chinese Taipei’, which is used by nations to avoid offending China.

Biden said that Vice President Kamala Harris, who also made history by being the first black woman to serve in her role, would help to advise him on a potential replacement for Breyer.