Global coronavirus cases has surpassed 100 million, as countries around the world struggle with new virus variants and vaccine shortfalls. Almost 1.3% of the world’s population has now been infected

US President Joe Biden has warned Russian leader Vladimir Putin about election meddling in their first call as counterparts, the White House says. The conversation included a discussion about the

All but five Senate Republicans voted in favor of an effort to dismiss Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial on Tuesday, making clear a conviction of the former president for

The European Union has warned pharmaceutical giants that have developed coronavirus vaccines with EU aid that it must get its shots on schedule, a day after the bloc threatened to

More than 100,000 people have died in the United Kingdom after contracting the coronavirus, figures from the government showed Tuesday. Britain is the fifth country in the world to record

US President Joe Biden’s Treasury Department is studying ways to speed up the process of adding anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman’s portrait to the front of the $20 bill after the

Tens of thousands of protesting farmers marched, rode horses and drove long lines of tractors into India’s capital on Tuesday, breaking through police barricades to storm the historic Red Fort.

Indonesia’s confirmed coronavirus infections since the pandemic began crossed the 1 million mark. Indonesia’s Health Ministry announced that new daily infections rose by 13,094 on Tuesday to bring the country’s

Britain’s unemployment rate hit its highest in nearly five years in the three months to November, when coronavirus cases began to rise for a second time and most of the

Janet Yellen made history on Monday when the Senate confirmed her nomination as secretary of the Treasury by a vote of 84-15. As treasury secretary, Yellen, 74, would occupy a

Several people have been arrested for breaking Covid rules protesting against the culturally sensitive Australia Day holiday. At least five arrests were made in Sydney at a rally attended by

The EU has warned it will tighten rules on exports of Covid vaccines, amid a row with AstraZeneca over a cut in planned supplies to the 27-member bloc. Health Commissioner

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has condemned weekend riots against newly imposed coronavirus restrictions as “criminal violence”. Rioters attacked police and set cars and bikes on fire to protest against

Moderna’s Covid vaccine appears to work against new, more infectious variants of the pandemic virus found in the UK and South Africa, say scientists from the US pharmaceutical company. Early

Sarah Sanders, Donald Trump’s former chief spokeswoman and one of his closest aides, announced Monday she’s running for Arkansas governor. The former White House press secretary, who left the job

Chinese rescuers have found the bodies of nine workers killed in explosions at a gold mine, raising the death toll to 10. Eleven others were rescued a day earlier after

President Joe Biden will impose a ban on most non-US citizens entering the country who have recently been in South Africa in a bid to contain the spread of a

Indian and Chinese troops were involved in a “minor face-off” last week in a disputed stretch of their shared border in the eastern Himalayas, the Indian army said on Monday,