As Brazil records almost 3000 COVID deaths a day, four protesters and a YouTube star were arrested last week for calling the controversial president “genocidal”.

Chandro Tomar, a diminutive grandmother from a poor village has become the oldest professional sharpshooter in the world - and a feminist icon.

The eruption 30 kilometres from Reykjavik looked spectacular but did not threaten towns or close the airports.

The superpower’s message to the US at the Alaskan meeting was blunt: the world didn’t need American-style international rules any more.

Biden and Harris were in Atlanta to deliver a message of solidarity after the massage parlour killings as Asian Americans grieve.

The classic board game’s community cards are being overhauled with new rewards for rescuing pets, shopping local and recycling.

Staff at the former president’s golf resort have tested positive, three months after the local government threatened to fine Mar-a-Lago for ignoring mask rules.

China’s foreign ministry spokesman said the first day of the meetings “totally reeked of explosives and was full of dramatic colours”.

A current aide to the New York governor says he makes suggestive remarks and looks down her shirt but Cuomo’s lawyer says he’s just old-fashioned.

From Halston model in the ’70s to Tiffany jewellery designer, Peretti gave the blue-box brand a modern edge. “Women can’t go around wearing $1 million,” she said.

The World Health Organisation urged countries to continue using the AstraZeneca vaccine despite reports of a small number of blood clotting cases, as UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson received the shot.

Hong Kongers who fled China’s repressive crackdown have urged British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to consider recognising their qualifications in order to make their resettlements in Britain an easier experience.

While boarding a flight to Atlanta, the US President stumbled slightly about halfway up the stairs, recovered, then stumbled again.

The coronavirus brought a year of fear and anxiety, loneliness and lockdown, but an annual report on happiness around the world suggests the pandemic has not crushed people’s spirits - especially in Finland.

Samia Suluhu Hassan said Tanzania should unite and avoid pointing fingers after the death of John Magufuli, her COVID-sceptic predecessor.

The Scandinavian nation wants to de-segregate its migrant ghettos by capping the number of non-European residents allowed to live in any neighbourhood.

The social distancing measures being imposed from Monday would also remain in force until the end of the declaration of the pandemic.

As a teen, Alexi McCammond posted racist and homophobic tweets. A decade later, they’ve led to her resignation as editor of Teen Vogue before she’d even begun.

The twice-weekly service will begin as soon as a trans-Tasman bubble is established, the airline says.

Four years ago I predicted Washington would have more steakhouses full of right-wing carnivores, aggressive sports bars and a revival of stuffy Republican enclaves. What happened was far grimmer.

Day one of the US-China talks was a decidedly undiplomatic affair. Rather than a trust-building exercise, it was a geo-political airing of grievances.

A parliamentary report into the handling of sexual harassment allegations against a former ally has opponents calling for the First Minister’s resignation.

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Stanford professor Shirin Sinnar testified that Donald Trump’s coronavirus “racist dog whistles” created “ripple effects across society at large”.

The invasion of Iraq began when at least five cruise missiles slammed into the heart of Baghdad.

Joe Biden’s top adviser on Asia said any thawing of US-China tensions will depend on Beijing dropping its economic pressure campaign against Australia.

Fifty-five weeks have passed since coronavirus first swept across Europe but the past seven days will go down as some of the most damaging.

Biden administration officials made a point of summoning reporters back into the meeting room to capture them trading barbs with their Chinese counterparts.

Political parties on both the right and left have shifted away from the view that a primary goal should be speeding flows of goods and services to lift economic growth.

The regulator said the vaccine did not increase the overall risk of blood clots but cannot rule out a link with two very rare blood disorders.

Mexican customs officials, meanwhile, have seized purported vials of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine en route to Honduras.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the government was trying to stop the abuse of migrants perpetrated by “a bunch of traffickers and gangsters.”

Lawyers for the Hollywood actor said his ex-wife’s claim that she had donated her divorce settlement to charity was a “calculated lie”, as they sought permission to appeal a London High Court ruling.

Putin said that every state had to contend with “bloody events” and said Biden was accusing the Russian leader of something he was guilty of himself.

Miner Ok Tedi announced it was suspending its operations as Europe threatens to withhold vaccines and PNG teeters on the edge of a COVID-19 disaster.

Beijing has revealed few details of the charges against “the two Michaels”, held since December 2018.

Rutte resigned last year over a robodebt scandal, but stayed on as caretaker and is set to become the longest serving prime minister in Dutch history.

Human Rights Watch says the right to not wear a hijab in Indonesian schools and workplaces should be protected.

“I’ve never been this afraid to be Asian in America,” said Dorothy Kuo, 38, who attempted to explain to her six-year-old daughter what had happened.

It involved Japanese celebrity Naomi Watanabe and is the latest scandal for the 2021 Olympics.

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The ability to keep embryos alive and developing “is a gold mine for us,” Dr Jacob Hanna said.

Cherokee County sheriff’s deputy told a press conference “yesterday was a really bad day” for the man charged with eight murders “and this is what he did”.

It is also not an asteroid, nor a comet. Scientists say Oumuamua is from beyond our solar system.

An antiques enthusiast paid $45 for the Ming Dynasty-era piece and thought it could be something special - only six other bowls like this are known to exist.

“We’ve been doing this for a long time,” said Soledad Martínez, an assistant professor of public health at the University of Chile.

Missing from public life since February, Magufuli has died of heart disease. In 2020, he cracked down on coronavirus reporting and said prayer had solved the crisis.

The US president said the Kremlin would “see shortly” what that price was.

The US Secretary of State mentioned China in the same breath as Myanmar, North Korea and other countries in which he said threatened democracy and stability.

European Commission President warns “all options are on the table” to boost the number of doses available to the continent’s 450 million citizens.