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Dictatorship: Bolsonaro imposes a hundred-year secrecy on the children's access to the Palácio do Planalto, the official workplace of the president of Brazil.

Demonstrators call for investigation into Canada indigenous schools | TRT World

Japan's 1st commercial-use quantum computer starts operations

Portugal records biggest population decline in 50 years

Nairobi - the centre of East Africa's thriving arts scene

The women fighting infertility stigma in Nigeria

Philippine president Duterte told unvaccinated people 'for all I care, you can die anytime' as he continues his brutal threats against vaccine deniers

Conservatives accused of cutting local sport funding by nearly half since 2010

Dramatic evacuations by sea as forest fires rage in Italy and Turkey

Anti-eviction lawmaker camps overnight on US Capitol steps

Hyenas Left a Massive Pile of Bones in a Saudi Arabian Lava Tube.

Xi Jinping urges China to prep for "military struggle" amid security concerns over Afghanistan

Climate change: Scientists call for ‘refreezing’ of the Arctic after several ‘never before’ events | Climate News

Officials in Tokyo alarmed as COVID-19 cases hit record highs

Delta variant fuels record COVID-19 infections in Tokyo, Thailand, Malaysia

Kris Wu: K-Pop star arrested on suspicion of rape

Body of Reuters photographer was badly mutilated in Taliban custody

Tibet and China clash over next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama

Enough ice melted in Greenland on Tuesday to cover Florida in two inches of water, scientists warn | Climate News

Mastermind behind deadly 2019 Kashmir attack killed in shootout -Indian police

Bolivia will send a plane to Cuba carrying food and syringes destined for the Cuban people, as a show of solidarity

India bans all international flights till August 31.

Health workers urged to reject NHS 3% pay offer

Kenya bans in-person meetings, public gatherings as COVID surges

Tokyo Olympics: Russians face backlash from fellow competitors

Justice Department says Russians hacked federal prosecutors

US seizes tanker shipping oil to North Korea in violation of sanctions

Extroverted, self-centred men less likely to comply with Covid restrictions, study suggests

Donald Trump ordered to hand over tax returns to Congress

From Afghan interpreter to US homeless - until reaching the American dream

Mitholz - the tranquil Swiss village facing a time bomb

Nigeria's kidnap crisis: 'I saw my two-year-old carried by a man with a gun'

India reptile park struggles to survive amid Covid

The man who 'killed' Pluto

Vaccination alone won't stop the rise of new variants and in fact could push the evolution of strains that evade their protection, researchers warned Friday(CNN)

Winnipeg Catholic priest accuses residential school survivors of lying about abuse for money

Bob Odenkirk: Better Call Saul actor thanks supporters after heart attack

Ignoring climate change will yield 'untold suffering,' panel of 14,000 scientists warns

Two travellers from U.S. fined $20,000 each for fake vaccination documents

Palestinian Shot Dead by Israeli Army at 12-year-old's Funeral, Also Killed by Israeli Forces

Taliban Executed Popular Comedian Who Poked Fun at Them on TikTok

Bayer's Roundup Costs Could Top $16 Billion as Provisions Mount

Woman charged for disturbing Yellowstone mother grizzly

Russia stops Cubans trying to enter EU by air bed

Amazon hit with $886m fine for alleged data breach

Stonehenge: Campaigners win legal battle against plans for road tunnel near prehistoric monument

Dressage: How to make a horse dance

Tokyo Olympics: Novak Djokovic thrashes Kei Nishikori to reach men's semi-finals

Tokyo Olympics: How to think like a champion

Covid-19: Biden tells states to offer $100 vaccine incentive as cases rise

Tiny San Marino — Population 34,000 — Just Won Its First Ever Olympic Medal

An Iranian athlete left his country after being told to lose on purpose, won silver at the Olympics for Mongolia, and dedicated the medal to Israel

First group of evacuated Afghan interpreters arrives in US

Scarlett Johansson sues Disney over streaming of Black Widow

Farmers have to hack their own tractors to keep them running.

Wealthy Americans Targeted by U.S. in Panama Tax-Fraud Probe - BNN Bloomberg

Israeli Forces break into human rights organization for children and seize computers and files of clients.

Unsure of the U.S., Ukraine turns to China and shuts up about Uyghurs

Queen lobbied Scottish Government for her land to be exempt from climate law

U.S. and Argentine investors tied to illegal land deals and deforestation in Brazil, including Bank of New York & U.S. pension funds

France declares moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes two lab workers

Nobel Prize winners say China tried to ‘bully’ scientists into disinviting Dalai Lama from meeting

Theodore McCarrick: Defrocked US cardinal charged with assault and battery

Woman left needing medical treatment after removing anti-mask poster with razor hidden behind it

Israeli forces raid leading child rights organization headquarters in Al-Bireh

Shooting-Tears of joy as San Marino becomes smallest Olympic medal-winning nation

Russia fines Google for violating data storage law

'We need more people': Exhausted firefighters battle Siberia blazes

Officials in Tokyo alarmed as virus cases hit record highs

Brazilian potential presidential candidate announces he is gay

Colorado officer arrested after threatening to shoot suspect during stop

Israeli troops shoot dead 12-year-old Palestinian boy

Leftwing rural teacher Pedro Castillo sworn in as president of Peru, pledging to govern “for the people and with the people”

Iranian Defector Dedicates Tokyo Olympics Medal to Israel

Dusty Hill: ZZ Top bassist dies aged 72

Arthur: Popular children's show to end after 25 years

14,000 scientists warn of "untold suffering" if we fail to act on climate change

Dusty Hill, the bassist for ZZ Top, has died. He was 72.

Queen secretly lobbied Scottish ministers for climate law exemption | The Queen’s lawyers secretly lobbied Scottish ministers to change a draft law to exempt her private land from a major initiative to cut carbon emissions, documents reveal.

Oldest fossils of animals may be in Canada rocks, study says. — If this interpretation is correct, these fossils would be the oldest fossils of animal life by roughly 300 million years.

Tunnel Discovered With Aztec Carvings Will Be Reburied After Project Loses Funding.

Pfizer vaccine effectiveness drops to 84 percent after six months: data

Ghana: Anti-gay bill seeks long jail terms for LGBTQ people

‘Unprecedented’ restitution: US returns antiquities to Iraq

Japan COVID-19 cases top 9,000 as Tokyo sets daily high with 3,177

Bennett (new israeli PM) won't order Arab eviction from Sheikh Jarrah (previousely ordered by israeli courts under former PM bibi netanyahu)

Teen girl in India killed for wearing jeans by her own family

'Never is the victim responsible,' says Pakistan PM Imran when asked about his controversial comments on rape

China Is Constructing A Massive Nuclear Base In Xinjiang That Could House Up To 110 Nuclear Silos For ICBMs With More Than 875 Warheads

New find shows animal life may have existed millions of years before previously thought

India's Rape Scandal viewers are left 'sickened' over death of 19-year-old who was 'gang-raped'

Tanzania's President gets coronavirus vaccine live on TV, reversing country's year-long policy of Covid denial

Gilgamesh tablet: US authorities take ownership of artefact

Key moments from first hearing of Capitol riot inquiry

Roma student: 'My only goal is to finish school'

Zimbabwean with football dreams to be kicked out of UK

The black immigrant who challenged US segregation - nearly 190 years ago

Capitol Hill police officer in tears during testimony

Tokyo Olympics: German gymnasts' full-body suits inspire other athletes

Tokyo Olympics: Take a tour of the incredible venues

Drone whistleblower Daniel Hale sentenced to 45 months in prison for exposing that 90% of those killed by U.S. drones are bystanders

Protests in Pakistan over beheading of former ambassador's daughter

Tokyo Olympics: Boxer Youness Baalla attempts bite on opponent during last-16 fight

Hundreds of children in London care homes faced decades of abuse, says UK inquiry

Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison has died at age 48.

Ivory Coast president and rival in first meeting since civil war

Argentina Officially Recognizes Nonbinary People | The country joins only a handful of others around the world in allowing citizens to mark their gender as something other than male or female on their IDs.

Human Rights Watch alleges Israeli attacks were not aimed at military targets

Egypt discovers warship wreck from Greek Ptolemaic era

Israel-Gaza conflict: Apparent war crimes committed, says rights group

Greece: Forest fire rips through area near Athens

Documents reveal U.S. lobbyist conducted propaganda campaigns for violent African dictatorships in Equatorial Guinea and DRC.

Bermuda wins its first-ever Olympic gold after nearly 100 years of trying

Exceptional Heat Dome over Central and Southern Europe Pushes Temperatures into the Extremes over 45°C (113°F) Across the Balkans, Italy, Turkey For Weeks

British aircraft carrier ignores Chinese warnings and enters South China Sea

Mexico Sends Food and Medical Supplies to Cuba, Condemns U.S. Blockade

Biden: US Combat Troops Will Leave Iraq By End of Year

Spain surpasses the UK and the US in percentage of population vaccinated against Covid-19

Surfside tower collapse: Final victim identified from rubble

Hemingway 'lookalike' chosen in Florida contest

Demonstrators Chant 'Death To The Dictator' In Tehran As Protests Spread

Gazprom Pipeline Ruptures, Catches Ablaze In Russia's Perm Region

New poll finds majority of Canadians support legal access to psilocybin therapy

Palestinian Olympic official urges athletes to forfeit Israel matches

Bezos' $2bn offer to get back in race to the Moon

Covid passports: How do they work around the world?

In 'frank' talks, China accuses U.S. of creating 'imaginary enemy'

Jordan has been attacked by Iranian-made drones: King Abdullah II

US combat forces to leave Iraq by end of year

Pope to UN forum: Hunger is 'crime' violating basic rights

Son of COVID conspiracy theorist says mom should be prosecuted

The Philippines Wins Its First Olympic Gold After Nearly 100 Years Of Trying

2nd judoka pulls out of Olympics in apparent move to avoid facing Israeli

India's excess deaths during pandemic up to 4.9 mln, study shows

Lawyer who sued Chevron over Ecuador pollution found guilty of contempt

286 arrested in global human trafficking and migrant smuggling operation

How US pullback in Iraq could benefit Iran

Russian authorities block dozens of websites linked to Alexei Navalny

Thousands defy Orbán with festive Pride parade backing gay rights in Hungary

Triathlon gold goes to Norway at Tokyo 2020

World a "sadder, angrier" place in 2020 than any time since Gallup 'Emotions Report' began

Deadly street protests over Iran water shortages

Unesco adds Madrid's Paseo del Prado and Retiro Park to heritage list

Nigerian outrage at brazen bandit attacks

Tokyo Olympics: One athlete braved sharks and crocodiles

Covid-19: Recent claims about cremations and vaccines fact-checked

Afrobeats in Japan: British-Nigerian hip hop dancer teaching children how to dance

Society is right on track for a global collapse, new study of infamous 1970s report finds

Israeli Air Force strikes Gaza Strip in response to incendiary balloons

Tunisia’s president dismisses prime minister after protests - Tunisian president suspends parliament, lifts immunity of all deputies, and dismisses PM Hicham Mechichi.

Covid: Fauci says US heading in wrong direction as cases rise

Germany mulls restrictions for unvaccinated people if COVID cases rise

Anti-vaxx conspiracy theorist tells rally that healthcare workers fighting COVID could face Nuremberg-style trials

Two adults and boy, 9, die after incident in Scotland’s Loch Lomond

Covid: Fauci says US heading in wrong direction as cases rise

Churches burned down as anger over 'cultural genocide' of indigenous children sweeps Canada

Italy: Wildfires rage through Sardinia, forcing evacuations

Climate change: Israel to cut 85% of emissions by mid-century

India and Pakistan should settle issues between themselves, US won't mediate: Biden administration

Pakistan bans domestic air travel for unvaccinated people

Record-Breaking Flooding In China Has Left Over One Million People Displaced

Excitement over wooden shipwreck found in Antigua's seabed

The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot

ICYMI: World's deepest pool and a royal ritual resumes

Protesters took to the streets in several Brazilian cities on Saturday to demand the impeachment of Jair Bolsonaro, the country’s far right president whose popularity has fallen in recent weeks amid corruption scandals against the backdrop of the pandemic.

Spain could raise parental leave to six months for both mothers and fathers

Thousands march for LGBTQ rights in Budapest’s biggest Pride | LGBTQ News

LA man who mocked Covid-19 vaccines dies of virus

Swimmer sacrifices Olympics dream in stand against Myanmar’s junta

UK warship enters South China Sea despite Chinese warnings

Brazilians take to streets again to demand Bolsonaro's impeachment

Clashes in Paris over Covid measures

Serial killer on death row Rodney Alcala dies of natural causes

Employers to be made liable if they don’t protect staff from harassment at work

Chemotherapy Can Trigger Mutations that Lead to Relapse of Blood Cancer In Children [Study]

U.S. drops cases against five researchers accused of hiding ties to Chinese military

Cesium exceeding the standard in honey produced near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan

French anti-riot police fired teargas as clashes broke out during protests in central Paris against COVID-19 curbs and vaccination. Police tried to push back demonstrators near the Gare Saint-Lazare railway station after the protesters pushed over a police motorbike carrying officers

Sierra Leone parliament votes to abolish death penalty

UK military unit in Colombia ‘assisted’ police force that killed 63 protesters

Piers Morgan caught Covid at Euro 2020 final despite being double-jabbed

Society is right on track for a global collapse, new study of infamous 1970s report finds

Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19

Narco Drones Got Caught Delivering Drugs to a Prison in Chile

Stonehenge may be next UK site to lose world heritage status |Britain is eroding global reputation for conserving its historic assets, culture bodies are warning

US marines accused of sexually assaulting women while stationed in Australia

1991 reforms: The year that transformed India

Schizophrenia linked to marijuana use disorder is on the rise, study finds.

B.C.’s rare inland rainforest at risk of collapse, international scientists warn in new study

More than 140 Palestinians were hurt Friday in clashes with Israeli troops in the flashpoint West Bank village of Beita, medics said, during protests against an illegal Israeli settlement outpost. The Israeli army said two soldiers were also "lightly injured" in the violence

China imposes sanctions on US officials

Olympics: Munich victims honoured for first time at opening ceremony

Tips from the Netherlands on how to build a nation of cyclists

DRC volcano: Reuniting children with families after the eruption

Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: What's stopping aid getting in?

Covid vaccines: Why a giant plastic bag shortage is slowing the rollout

Why is the Great Barrier Reef in trouble? A simple guide

Angelina Jolie wins appeal to remove judge from Brad Pitt divorce case

China bans off-campus tutoring in an education overhaul that set off market stocks tumbling among dozens of listed edtech platforms

Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson not yet astronauts, US says

WHO doesn't see pandemic ending until at least middle of 2022

Canada to resettle Afghans who worked with military, embassy

Stonehenge may be next UK site to lose world heritage status

Business leaders have ‘obligation to speak up’, ex-Unilever boss says amid Ben & Jerry’s row

Teenage paedophile who abused nine nursery children sentenced to over 14 years

Sierra Leone parliament votes to abolish death penalty

'A Day of Shame': Australia Lobbying Thwarts Push to List Great Barrier Reef as Endangered |Greenpeace Australia called Friday's World Heritage Committee vote "a victory for one of the most cynical lobbying efforts in recent history."

Tokyo Olympics: Is the USA 'Dream Team' era coming to an end?

Tokyo Olympics: US gymnast Simone Biles gets her own goat emoji

Germany's Merkel says pipeline deal with US good for Ukraine

Russia is ready to introduce a ban on gasoline exports as soon as next week amid record-high wholesale prices on the exchange

Czech Republic: Justice for women survivors of unlawful sterilization

China evacuates tens of thousands as storms spread north

Russia battered by deadly COVID 3rd wave

Astronomers make first clear detection of a moon-forming disc around an exoplanet. Astronomers have unambiguously detected the presence of a disk around a planet outside our Solar System for the first time. The observations will shed new light on how moons and planets form in young stellar systems.

EU chief rejects UK bid to renegotiate Brexit deal

US border agents seize 15 giant snails

AI advance could transform battle against disease

Ethiopia Tigray crisis: New front opens in war as aid fears grow

It's so sizzling in Dubai that the federal government is artificially creating rain - Newsplaneta

India raids media companies critical of government

Homeless people told they have no place in Tokyo Olympics

Pegasus spyware seller: Blame our customers not us for hacking

French President Emmanuel Macron held an emergency cybersecurity meeting Thursday to weigh possible government action after reports that his cellphone and those of government ministers may have been targeted by spyware

Vigilantes drill in southern Mexico with rifles, machetes. Members of the new self-defence group called “El Machete” intend to combat criminal groups

Saudi Aramco confirms data leak, hackers demand a ransom of $50 million

Dutch data protection authority fines TikTok over privacy

Russian officials blame fires ravaging Siberia on climate change

German court sentences IS widow over Yazidi slaves

Merkel: Germany has not done enough to hit Paris climate targets

Tokyo 2020: Travelling to an Olympic Games like no other

Soldier statue reignites Spanish row over fascism

Tokyo 2020 Olympics: India's top medal contenders

The jungle-trekking Covid vaccinators helping to protect remote Indian villages.

Nord Stream 2: US and Germany reach deal on controversial Russian gas pipeline

US hackers attacked thousands of servers in China, news report claims

Reporters Without Borders demands Israel stop exporting spyware

Athletes At The Tokyo Olympics Are Being Given Condoms, And Warnings Not To Use Them

Dutch authorities fine Italian pharma company Leadiant for increasing rare-disease drug price by more than 30,000%

The right to bear arms in self-defense is embedded in the Czech constitution

'It was hard to breathe': China flood terror as subway submerged

Harvey Weinstein pleads not guilty to LA sexual assault charges

61% of Canadians prefer a hybrid or remote work model. A ‘Work Anywhere’ Workplace is What Canadian Employees Actually Want Today

‘Absence of humanity’: Melbourne couple jailed for keeping Indian woman as a slave for eight years

More than 1.5 million children lost a parent or grandparent to Covid-19

Mucormycosis: India records more than 4,300 'black fungus' deaths

15,000-year-old viruses discovered in Chinese glacier ice

Israel's President: Ben & Jerry's Boycott Is Part of 'A New Form of Terrorism'

‘Reckless’: G20 states subsidised fossil fuels by $3tn since 2015, says report

Pegasus: Princess Latifa and Princess Haya numbers 'among leaks'

Monkeypox: More than 200 contacts tracked in US for rare disease

Europe floods: 'I have an axe beside my bed'

Wildfires: Firefighters battle blaze from top of moving train

Pegasus Project: 14 world leaders identified in records, including: French president Emmanuel Macron, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, and Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan.

The battle for Indonesia's Gold Island

Darfur conflict's latest surge in violence displaces thousands

Covid: The Mexican villages refusing to vaccinate

Mandira Bedi: Actress stirs debate over women's role at cremations

1 in 5 Americans believes microchips are hidden in COVID vaccines, poll finds

Dominic Cummings says he’s not certain Brexit was a good idea. Architect of Vote Leave campaign says anyone sure on issues like Brexit has ‘a screw loose’

Olympic Village COVID-19 infection bubble already 'broken,' health expert says

Netflix to include mobile games for subscribers

China floods: People trapped on subway trains as city sees more rain in an hour than flood-hit Germany in three days

A Rural Teacher Wins Peru's Presidency After The Longest Electoral Count In 40 Years : NPR

Thomas Barrack: Top Trump aide accused of working as foreign agent

Jeff Bezos and crew launch into space on New Shepard

Trump ally and ex-campaign adviser Thomas Barrack charged with secretly lobbying for UAE

Norway have been fined 1,500 euros for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms at the European Beach Handball Championships.

‘Everything is on fire’: Siberia hit by unprecedented burning

Norway fined for not wearing bikini bottoms at beach handball match

Nike trainer output at key factory hit by Covid outbreak

Tom Barrack, Trump's inaugural committee chair, charged with acting as agent of UAE

Pegasus: French President Macron identified as spyware target

'We lost': Some U.S. veterans say blood spilled in Afghanistan was wasted

Journalists could face up to 14 years in prison for stories embarrassing the Government under proposed changes to the Official Secrets Act that would treat them like foreign SPIES

Moroccan man held 19 years without charges released from Guantanamo

A weekend in America: Shootings in Washington spotlight growing problem

Pegasus: Who are the alleged victims of spyware targeting?

First space tourist Dennis Tito: 'I was euphoric'

Covid: False and misleading health claims spread in Indonesia

The little tech firm gunning for an airspeed record

Covid: Two jabs needed to enter nightclubs from September

Canada will allow fully vaccinated Americans to cross the border on Aug. 9, other international travellers on Sept. 7

‘Everyone is dying’: Myanmar on the brink of decimation

Indian opposition says Modi used Israeli spyware on rival Gandhi

Soaring numbers are quitting Catholic Church in Poland, say activists

China hits back as it faces growing criticism of its human rights record, treatment of Uyghurs

Canada to open border to fully vaccinated Americans in August

Ben & Jerry's to stop sales in Palestinian territories

England Has Lifted Most Of Its COVID-19 Restrictions, Even As U.K. Cases Are Up 41%

Mexico will donate 800,000 syringes with needles to Cuba

Police chief 'sick and tired' after child killed in shooting

Gay men will be crushed to death by pushing a WALL onto them as part of nationwide return to Sharia law in Afghanistan under the Taliban, one of the Islamist group's judges reveals

Italian firm fined €19.6 million for inflating drug price 30,000% in Netherlands