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This article is based on important stand taken by Nepal to stand with public health and reject offer of funding by tobacco company. It has insights from 2014 Director General of the World Health Organization, The Union's...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gave President Biden a progressive thumbs up for his 100 days in office Friday night. “The Biden Administration and President Biden have definitely exceeded expectations that progressives ...

The U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) is mulling whether to charge now-convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in connection with a 2017 incident in which he allegedly violently handled a 14-year-old boy an...

The controlled burn which was started by the U.S. Forest Service raged out of control and threatened several housing units and displaced several families.

Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday joined growing calls for the release of body-camera footage of the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City.

A Florida family created a fake church to sell a toxic industrial bleach as a cure for serious diseases, including COVID-19, cancer, and AIDS, a federal grand jury found. The suburban Tampa family allegedly pocketed more...

LOS ANGELES - Just a few months ago, California was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. Hospitals in Los Angeles were drowning in patients, and ambulances were idling outside with people struggling to b...

Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw offered a promising update Friday on an emergency eye surgery in his one good eye, saying it “went very well,” but that he’ll remain effectively blind as he recovers over he next month. The ...

Hiromi spent most of her life feeling trapped.

President had promised to double budget for environmental enforcement at conference organised by Joe Biden Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has approved a 24% cut to the environment budget for 2021 from the previous yea...

US restarts Johnson & Johnson vaccinations, New Zealand excludes Western Australia from bubble, EU pledges vaccine drive See all our coronavirus coverage Hospitals in India have launched desperate appeals for oxygen as t...

The United States is deploying a P-8 Poseidon submarine hunting aircraft to assist in the search and rescue operation for a missing Indonesian navy submarine lost in the Bali Sea, as hopes fade for the 53 crew members wh...

Protests are expected at group's headquarters in Jakarta as the presence of Min Aung Hlaing triggers anger South-east Asian leaders are to hold Myanmar crisis talks with junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, who has become the f...

The Biden administration said it did not know of manufacturing problems at the Emergent factory when it approved shipping millions of doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine. The company says the doses were safe.

Social media posts that claim Bill Gates is trying to block the sun's rays misrepresent a Harvard project that Gates' initiatives are helping fund.      

Vice President Kamala Harris hasn't been to the border to address a crisis she was tasked to help fix — but a children's book she wrote is waiting there for young migrants who are being welcomed into the country. Unacc...

India's underfunded health system is on the brink of collapse as the world's worst coronavirus surge wears out the nation. This week the number of recorded cases passed 300,000 a day, along with more than 2,000 deaths - ...

Former President Donald Trump on Friday slammed South Korean President Moon Jae-after Moon for saying he "failed" in his nuclear disarmament talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

The government spends more than twice as much on each pensioner as on each working-age Briton One of the major shifts in government spending over recent years has been away from young people and towards those in retireme...

In a virtual town hall, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said progressives 'expected a lot more conservative administration.'      

Wealthy nations have to step up.

Three boys are arrested after Fares Maatou was attacked with "a large bladed item", police say.