Myanmar’s military leaders have extended their detention of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose freedom is a key demand of the crowds of people continuing to protest this month’s military coup.

A nine-month investigation of state-sponsored disinformation shows how a rumour that the US created the virus that causes COVID-19 was weaponised by the Chinese government, spreading from the dark corners of the internet to millions across the globe.

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Peru’s foreign minister has resigned amid an uproar over government officials being secretly vaccinated against the coronavirus ahead of health workers.

It is the first resurgence of the disease in Guinea since the world’s worst outbreak in 2013-2016 killed more than 11,000 people.

In this episode, national editor Tory Maguire and science reporter Liam Mannix discuss the CSL facility in Victoria, where the company is about to start pumping out millions of doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

Microsoft Corp President Brad Smith said more than 1000 engineers worked on the hack, which gained access to emails across sensitive US government departments, including the US Treasury, Justice and Commerce departments.

The President used the occasion to call on Congress to strengthen gun laws, including requiring background checks on all gun sales and banning assault weapons.

Indian police have arrested a woman accused of editing and circulating a document tweeted by climate activist Greta Thunberg that authorities say is anti-government.

Election monitors swapped face masks for full personal protective equipment, including suits, masks, visors, goggles and black trash bags tied around their feet during the final hour of voting.

Mental health professionals are growing alarmed about the state of young people, who they say have been among the most badly affected by a world with a foreshortened sense of the future.

Feeling emboldened by the trial’s outcome, Trump is expected to reemerge from a self-imposed hibernation at his club in Palm Beach, Florida, and is eyeing ways to reassert his power. 

“It’s encouraging to see these trends coming down, but they’re coming down from an extraordinarily high place,” said Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC.

“We can confirm that Archie is going to be a big brother. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are overjoyed to be expecting their second child”, the couple’s spokesperson said.

The storm has prompted officials in Houston, where temperatures were in the 20s Celsius earlier this week, to advise residents to prepare for power outages and hazardous roads.

The 42-year-old Jaime Herrera Beutler challenged members of a Republican Party that largely supports Trump, or keeps their discontent bottled up inside, to speak up about Donald Trump. 

Security forces in Myanmar opened fire to disperse protesters at a power plant on Sunday and armoured vehicles rolled into major cities as the army faced a ninth day of anti-coup demonstrations.

The acquittal is a dangerous outcome for the United States.

New Zealand has reported three new locally acquired COVID-19 cases, the country’s first since late January, when a returned traveller tested positive after leaving quarantine.

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There are many different ways that consumers can respond when they disapprove of the politics of a company’s representatives.

A strong earthquake hit off the coast of northeastern Japan on Saturday, shaking Fukushima, Miyagi and other areas, but there was no threat of a tsunami, officials said.

It’s the first departure from the new administration, less than a month into President Joe Biden’s tenure.

Hollywood stars and celebrities are offering apologies to Britney Spears after a documentary exposed the torrent of abuse she faced in the years before her public breakdown.

‘Absurd’ films that allege a groundswell of support are made to convince the president - not the public.

Oxford University has started testing its coronavirus vaccine in children as young as six in a move that expands coronavirus vaccine trials to the youngest age group yet.

As both a fact-finding exercise and a means of delivering accountability, the impeachment process proved deeply defective.

Ashley Judd has recounted a painful ordeal she believes almost cost her leg after tripping in a Congolese rainforest and having to be evacuated by motorbike.

The White House has called on China to make available data from the earliest days of the COVID-19 outbreak, saying it has “deep concerns” about the way the findings of the World Health Organisation’s COVID-19 report were communicated.

While the majority of Republican senators sided with Trump and backed his acquittal, seven Republican senators joined the Democrats and voted to convict the Republican former president on the single charge.

Donald Trump will be able to run for the White House again after being acquitted by the US Senate in his impeachment trial.

Democrats have abandoned their push to call witnesses to testify at Trump’s Senate trial after throwing the process into disarray for several hours.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell signalled he will vote to acquit former president Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial.

A strain of the coronavirus discovered in mink on a farm in northern Poland can be transmitted to humans and vice versa, the agriculture ministry said on Saturday.

Doug Emhoff and Chasten Buttigieg are breaking tradition and forging new ways for couples to occupy public life.

Myanmar’s army is hunting for seven well-known supporters of protests against this month’s coup and they face charges over comments on social media that threaten national stability, the army said on Saturday.

The five-time Grammy winner is selling more than 1000 of the costumes she wore on stage, on tour, on red carpets and in music videos.

Nestle, Hershey and Mars are among the companies named in the suit.

A British judge ruled last month that while the case against the Australian was sound, his fragile mental health put him at “substantial risk” of committing suicide in a US prison.

For avid supporters of a more robust European Union and Italy’s leadership in it, the arrival of ‘Super Mario’ as prime minister comes just in time.

The ceramic pieces, believed to have been looted from archaeological sites or museum collections in Ecuador and Colombia, had been sold by a Rio de Janeiro art gallery.

The Australian government is closely watching the first agreement of this kind in Europe, as it grapples with the issue here.

The former president’s legal team said that the impeachment trial represented a form of “constitutional cancel culture” by his political adversaries.

Recent attacks quickly reinvigorated simmering outrage, fear and hurt over a wave of harassment Asian community leaders say was spurred by the “China virus” rhetoric.

Despite taking only three out of 16 allocated hours to make their case, and relying on “whataboutism” and false equivalence, Donald Trump’s lawyers have done enough.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus backs away from outright rejection of the virus lab-leak theory peddled by former US president Donald Trump.

After a prosecution case rooted in emotive, violent images from the Capitol siege, Donald Trump’s impeachment trial now shifts to his defence.

She is seen by some as an Obama-like figure who can help restore faith in America. Can Kamala Harris live up to the hype?

In a small way at least, the 13 million people already given a coronavirus vaccine in Britain have Gwyneth Paltrow to thank.

A massive crash involving more than 130 vehicles on a Texas highway left six people dead and dozens injured amid a winter storm that dropped freezing rain, sleet and snow on parts of the US.