Despite the enormous impact of the coronavirus pandemic, which has left swathes of the economy closed or barely able to function for much of the year, UK carbon emissions only fell by 10.3 percent over 2020, new figures indicate.

New Zealand’s Islamic community has told the Christchurch massacre inquiry that it knew it was “vulnerable” to a terror attack.

COVID-19 patients who end up on a ventilator may be at risk of rare but serious injuries to the throat, a new study suggests.

The International Monetary Fund said that Greece’s huge public debt remains sustainable in the medium term despite “unprecedented uncertainty” to all sectors of the economy because of the pandemic.

By Michael R. Strain

A two-year-old girl is recovering after falling early on Monday from a fourth-floor window of an apartment in Miami.

A diver fought off an 8-foot hammerhead shark with his camera stick while spearfishing off the coast of Australia.

A record 235 million people will need humanitarian assistance and protection next year, a near- 40 percent increase on 2020 which is “almost entirely from COVID-19”, the UN’s under-secretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator said on Tuesday.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad said the coronavirus pandemic has increased trafficking of women and gender-based violence, leaving the health and safety of women “on the line.”

A French chef captured a Guinness World Record by cooking up a pizza that contains 254 varieties of cheese.