Palestinian medics say at least 50 protesters have been hospitalised after clashes with Israeli police.

China and Indonesia staged a joint naval exercise in the Java Sea only days after Beijing offered to recover the sunken KRI Nanggala 402 off Bali for free

Witnesses inside the supermarket in the South Island city of Dunedin heard someone scream “he’s got a knife” before customers tried to pin down the attacker.

International Olympic officials, Tokyo planners and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga himself have insisted the Games will go on in “a safe and secure” way.

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The worsening violence around the Temple Mount has prompted Jordan’s King and the US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to speak out.

The discovery of a prehistoric human skull in a cave in Italy has disproved macabre theories that Neanderthals indulged in ritual cannibalism – instead pointing to the prospect that they were eaten by giant hyenas.

The mangrove forest planted along this shrinking village’s riverbank is like a pillow that doesn’t stop but slows down the forces of nature.

The slow vaccine rollout has made Africa’s hunt for new variants, which tend to emerge where spread goes unchecked, more urgent.

“With the spread of inclusive writing, the English language - already quasi-hegemonic across the world - would certainly and perhaps forever defeat the French language.”

The Commission launched legal action against AstraZeneca for not respecting its contract for the supply of vaccines and for not having a plan to ensure timely deliveries.

The massacre is the latest in a resurgence of mass shootings in the US after such incidents seemed to recede during the height of coronavirus pandemic restrictions.

Like many others DarkSide seems to spare Russian, Kazakh and Ukrainian-speaking companies, suggesting a link to the former Soviet republics.

Cheney is under fire as a party leader because of her repeated criticism of ex-president Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen.

Mucormycosis is caused by a mould that thrives in wet environments and can attack through the respiratory tract, potentially eroding facial structures and harming the brain.

Israel faced international criticism after clashes between police and worshippers following protests over the potential eviction of Palestinians from a neighbourhood in East Jerusalem.

India’s COVID-19 deaths rose by more than 4000 for a second consecutive day on Sunday as calls for a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the virus mounted.

Once upon a time, a 7-year-old refugee living in a homeless shelter sat down at a chess board in school and learned how to play. Now 10, the boy is a champion.

The co-ordinates given by state media on Sunday, citing the China Manned Space Engineering Office, put the point of impact in the ocean, west of the Maldives archipelago.

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The Biden administration is examining ways to ensure that a waiver of COVID-19 vaccine patents to aid poor countries will not hand sensitive US biopharmaceutical technology to China and Russia.

Multiple blasts at a school in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 40 people and wounded dozens more, mostly female students, officials said, in an attack President Ashraf Ghani blamed on the insurgent Taliban.

Melinda French Gates as frequently spearheaded efforts focused on women’s empowerment, an area where some experts say she could expand her giving.

Sadiq Khan has been re-elected London mayor as had been widely expected, providing some joy to the opposition Labour Party which has suffered a series of disappointing results in other local elections.

The rocket has been losing altitude since last month and will soon make what is called “uncontrolled re-entry” back to Earth.

Bo, the Portuguese water dog who became the first presidential pet in the Obama White House, romping in the halls of power, has died.

The incident is one of the most disruptive digital ransom operations ever reported.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is on course to win 64 seats but needed 65 for a SNP majority and a strong case for a new referendum.

Shaiz Javaid felt abandoned by Australia when borders closed. He is among thousands making up a record surge of university enrolments in Britain.

European Union leaders cranked up their criticism of the US call to waive COVID-19 vaccine patents Saturday, arguing the move would bring no short or midterm relief.

India on Saturday reported its highest ever single-day COVID-19 death toll, as cases continued to rise and states imposed stricter lockdowns.

Anger has swelled over a dispute in an Arab neighbourhood where Palestinians in six households face eviction in favour of Jewish Israelis who claim several properties as theirs.

US federal agents have since seized the cars along with $US2 million from his bank account.

The drop halted a growth streak dating to its founding in 1850 on the heels of a gold rush that prompted a flood of people to seek their fortune in the West.

With global warming opening northern routes, it is believed “Wally” became lost and swam into the Atlantic via the Arctic.

The bomb, planted on a motorbike, injured the Parliament Speaker and former president, and four others including a British national.

The Royal Mail said it was paying tribute to “one of the most iconic and enduring music artists of all time”.

The US economy added just 266,000 jobs in April, well below economists’ expectations that around 1 million jobs would be created.

The World Health Organisation has made its long-awaited decision on China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, approving the jab for emergency use in all adults, meaning it can be rolled out globally.

The Morrison government has trashed a 50-year convention when it comes to public comment about Taiwan.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting that was scheduled for Rwanda in June has been postponed, despite urgings from Australia and Britain not to delay for a second time.

The largest diamond ever cut in Russia - a 100.94 carat stone called the Alrosa Spectacle - will be auctioned in Geneva later this month.

Nearly two months after their abduction by armed gunmen, more than two dozen students in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state were reunited with jubilant family members on Friday amid tears and celebratory singing.

A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest and death.

Japan’s premier extended on Friday a state of emergency in Tokyo and three other areas until the end of May to stem a surge in novel coronavirus cases fuelled by the spread of virus variants just months before the Tokyo Olympics.

Pfizer and its partner BioNTech SE have asked US regulators for full approval of their COVID-19 vaccine, which could also help raise confidence in the vaccine.

The schoolgirl pulled a handgun from her backpack and fired multiple rounds inside and outside the school in the small city of Rigby, Idaho, a sheriff said.

Local media suggested a home-made explosive device was planted on a motorcycle parked near his car.

Iron ore hit a record $US200 a tonne on Friday as concerns about Beijing’s dispute with Canberra prompt China’s importers to store up the critical resource.

The bloodshed lays bare Brazil’s perennial divide over whether, as a common local saying goes, “a good criminal is a dead criminal”.