In an open letter, epidemiologists call for a new inquiry into the virus’ origins, arguing WHO’s team did not have “the independence or the necessary access”.

Even if Australia’s political relationship with China improves, its plans to turbo-charge a de-carbonised economy will pose challenges for our economy.

Blocking Australia’s supply of AstraZeneca will not fix the problems that have plagued Italy’s dangerously slow vaccine rollout.

Four people have been arrested in relation to counterfeit vaccines and surgical masks.

New Zealand health authorities have poured cold water on the prospect of Auckland residents leaving a stage-three lockdown early.

Susan Wojcicki says the former US president will be allowed to return to YouTube once the risk of political violence in the US subsides.

Hundreds of evacuated residents across New Zealand are able to return home after three earthquakes prompted tsunami warnings, an Australian territory and a handful of Pacific islands.

This is my modest hope: next Mardi Gras, my children can come to a bakery with me, pick out a King Cake, and eat it with abandon at a table inside.

The Sussexes have not yet been informed by Buckingham Palace about the bullying inquiry, and may not be interviewed.

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Negative perceptions of China were especially pronounced among respondents who identified as Republicans or Republican-leaning.

The country’s military rulers attempted to move the money held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York days after seizing power.

The tell-all interview with Oprah is meant to build Harry and Meghan’s American brand - their approval ratings have plunged in the UK.

Brazil has the world’s second-highest death toll over the past year, after the United States. While the US outbreak is ebbing, Brazil is facing its worst phase of the epidemic yet.

The decision is the first time the European Commission has used its powers to block a shipment and it risks triggering a major diplomatic dispute.

“If it doesn’t happen, we’ll obviously be sad ’cause it didn’t happen while we were here, but we believe that it will happen. It just hasn’t happened yet,” said the Qanon-believing couple.

The hunt follows the gray wolf’s January removal from the Endangered Species Act by the Trump administration in October.

Alan Finkel is meeting senior international officials in Europe and Asia in a new diplomatic effort ahead of a trio of crunch climate change summits this year.

China’s top legislative body will overhaul Hong Kong’s electoral system, declaring it was its responsibility to put “patriots” in power.

A statement from Buckingham Palace said the Prince would remain in hospital for several days.

The revelation comes as the death toll from a military crackdown climbs to at least 50 and protesters say “there is no meaning to staying alive under the junta”.

A person made a a series of posts on the 4chan site saying they planned to “take action” on March 15 by carrying out an attack remotely on the two mosques using car bombs.

The Scottish leader testified under oath in a political saga involving a sexual misconduct investigation that is threatening both her job and her push for an independent Scotland.

QAnon chatter about March 4 - a day adherents believe Donald Trump will return to the White House - has prompted police warnings of another attack.

The New York Governor said he would “fully cooperate” with an investigation into sexual and harassment allegations overseen by the state’s Attorney-General.

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Alek Minassian told police he was motivated by a desire to punish society for his perceived status as an involuntary celibate because he believed women would not have sex with him.

Alternative for Germany party leaders denounced the decision as “purely political” and aimed at “massively damaging the party, especially in an election year”. 

Big business will help pay for the mammoth spending which has shielded the British economy from collapse.

“What normally makes German bureaucracy stolid and reliable becomes an obstacle in a crisis and costs lives,” said one German economist.

For the first time since the Apollo missions, Congress last year appropriated nearly $US1 billion for a spacecraft capable of flying astronauts to and from the lunar surface.

Iceland’s Met Office said a volcanic area close to the capital Reykjavik was expected to release lava slowly over the next few weeks.

Buckingham Palace says it has no tolerance for bullying and has vowed to hold an investigation into the bombshell revelations.

Governments have feared the strains would be resistant to vaccines that were designed before their discovery.

“Everything will be OK,” read 19-year-old Angel’s T-shirt as the dancer and taekwondo champion joined anti-coup protesters in Myanmar on Wednesday. But it wasn’t: 38 people died.

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor says her office will investigate possible a war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a move welcomed by the Palestinian Authority and denounced by Israel.

Anger at healthcare authorities has increased since the start of 2021, with the head of the National Institute for Health now accompanied by a security detail.

At least 10 rockets landed on Wednesday at Iraq’s Ain al-Asad air base that hosts US, coalition and Iraqi forces, the Iraqi military said.

The head of the local broadcaster said the three women were recent high school graduates aged between 18 and 20.

Longtime Democratic policy adviser Neera Tanden will not become Biden’s budget director, in the administration’s first defeat in filling a Cabinet post. 

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The dispute over who is recognised as representative of the Myanmar generals who carried out the February coup is causing a headache for the UN.

For centuries, the Orthodox Church has guarded Greek Cypriots’ faith and ethnic identity. Now it has weighed into the controversy over their 2021 Eurovision effort.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have accused royal aides of a “calculated smear campaign” in an extraordinary outbreak of hostilities.

A Ford Expedition typically seats eight people legally. Authorities did not immediately know why 25 people had been crammed into the truck.

In a surprise, Biden’s administration also announced that drugmaker Merck will help produce rival Johnson & Johnson’s newly approved shot.

Donald Trump’s status as a Republican folk hero makes him the perfect person to sell the vaccine to sceptical conservatives. It’s a role he has rejected.

Last month, a judge ruled a tabloid had breached her privacy and infringed her copyright by publishing parts of the five-page letter she wrote to her father.

Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok said he clearly considered the vaccine a tool in Russia’s hybrid war against the West. 

There’s increasing bipartisan support in Washington for a bigger government role in providing incentives and investments in companies.