Iran warned about “suspicious” moves by those who seek to disrupt cordial relations between Tehran and Kabul, after a video purportedly showing Afghan nationals being insulted by Iranians went viral.

Christmas is a joyous time for family and friends to get together and share delicious meals and memories. Christmas can, for some, also be a stressful time and with this added stress, the risk of hypertension and an elevated reading may be present.

A new paper in Science Advances describes for the first time how minerals come together at the molecular level to form bones and other hard tissues, like teeth and enamel.

More than 32 million of the world’s poorest people face being pulled back into extreme poverty because of COVID-19, leading UN economists said on Thursday, highlighting data showing that the pandemic is likely to cause the worst economic crisis in decades among least developed countries (LDCs).

It is known throughout the world as a byword for security. But the Bank of England (BoE) is evidently a tad unclear on the whereabouts of £50b of banknotes, and it doesn’t seem to be overly concerned about it, a powerful group of MPs has said.

Scientists are a step closer to restoring vision for the blind, after building an implant that bypasses the eyes and allows monkeys to perceive artificially induced patterns in their brains.

Authorities in Bangladesh on Friday started sending a first group of more than 1,500 Rohingya refugees to an isolated island despite calls by human rights groups for a halt to the process.

Famine-like conditions have reappeared in parts of Yemen and almost half the population is experiencing high levels of food insecurity, new United Nations data showed, with aid agencies warning time is running out to prevent mass starvation.

Millions of people in low-income countries have been forced to go without health care or have had to pay for it during the coronavirus pandemic, despite billions of pounds in emergency World Bank funding, research has found.

Instead of inserting a card or scanning a smartphone to make a payment, what if you could simply touch the machine with your finger?