Researchers in Bordeaux are analysing a dozen bottles of the precious liquid that returned to Earth in January after a sojourn aboard the International Space Station.

As India halts vaccine exports to tackle its own rising infections, medical authorities are urging Australia to rush a million local doses north.

North Korea has a history of testing new US administrations with missile launches aimed at forcing the Americans back to the negotiating table.

The Ever Given, a ship belonging to Taiwan-based shipping company Evergreen Marine, is still blocking the crucial waterway blocking oil, gas and grain supplies.

The new data may not resolve challenges that the vaccine’s reputation faces, because repeated missteps have sown confusion and distrust.

The outbreak is reaching its worst ever stage in the country, fanned by a patchy vaccine rollout, an infectious new variant and a lack of nationwide public health restrictions.

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Biden’s decision gives a high-profile assignment to his Vice-President, a daughter of immigrants who has forged a reputation as an ally of immigration advocates.

Meeting attendees were adamant the British PM’s “jestful” comments weren’t aimed at the European Union, where vaccinations are struggling.

A senior Vatican prelate said it was believed to be the first time in living memory that a Pope had taken such action.

America’s top diplomat called on democratic nations to work together to counter China’s “aggressive actions” and technological advancements.

The hacking group used fake Facebook accounts to pose as fictitious journalists, students, human rights advocates or members of the Uighur community.

Britain’s Home Secretary set out a new plan for immigration for Britain aimed at punishing those who travel to the UK by boat seeking asylum.

Thousands of Icelanders have flocked to the site of the eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula, about 30 kilometres south-west of the capital.

The new variant found in India has two mutations in the spiky protein that the virus uses to fasten itself to cells, which might help the virus spread more easily.

The 400-metre long container ship Ever Given’s hull became wedged length-ways across the canal.

Of all the tales of brutality and heartache out of Myanmar over the past seven weeks, few could be more shocking than that of Ma Khin Myo Chit.

Jens Stoltenberg, who is expanding the role of NATO, wants like-minded democracies to “stand together” and up to China.

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Another week, anther mass shooting in the United States, but there is at least some glimmer of hope that the new President can reform US gun laws.

New York politician Ron Kim has seen the surge in violence up close. He says it’s too easy to heap the blame on Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric.

The launches came days after the sister of Kim Jong-un threatened the United States and South Korea for holding joint military exercises. 

The Chief Scientific Adviser said the public should expect recurrent infections, particularly in winter and that COVID-19 would become a circulating virus, like others have done over thousands of years.

NIAID Director Dr Anthony Fauci called the whole issue a really unfortunate unforced error.

The Religious Zionist Party includes a new incarnation of a Jewish extremist group outlawed as terrorists by Israel and the US decades ago.

Polls consistently show gun control measures are overwhelmingly popular with Americans, but they have been fiercely resisted by the National Rifle Association.

A Banksy painting honouring Britain’s health workers in the pandemic has sold for a record £16.8 million ($30 million), auction house Christie’s said.

The 21-year-old man is in hospital with a leg wound he suffered in an exchange of gunfire with responding police officers at the King Soopers supermarket in Boulder.

The move comes about a month after Buckingham Palace announced Harry and his wife Meghan had made a final split with the royal family.

At least 400 people were still missing and around 560 were injured after a devastating fire that destroyed thousands of shelters at a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh.

Slave descendants and those who experienced segregation and housing discrimination will receive grants, but some say that is discrimination in itself.

The statement from the peak agency, helmed by Anthony Fauci, is a setback for the company’s hopes of US authorisation for emergency use. 

The shipping fleet’s presence in a contested South China Sea zone is a litmus test for US President Joe Biden following America’s frosty Alaskan talks with China.

Ten people died including a police officer who was looking for another line of work so he wouldn’t “put his family through something like this”.

Public relations big hitter Catherine St-Laurent had worked for Bill and Melinda Gates and only joined the couple last April.

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The growth, following a fifth straight week of confirmed cases increasing worldwide, comes as a stand off over vaccines divides the EU from Britain.

Trump’s endorsement marks his most direct attempt at retribution against those he blames for his loss and reaffirms his influence over the Republican Party.

The move marked the first coordinated sanctions effort against Chinese officials, using the Magnitsky mechanism, since the election of US President Joe Biden.

The tweet – “just setting up my twttr” – was Dorsey’s first tweet, made on March 21, 2006.

A huge fire has swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, destroying thousands of homes and killing several people, officials and witnesses said.

AstraZeneca said the vaccine was 79 per cent effective overall at preventing symptomatic cases of COVID-19 – including in older people.

When Joe Biden was speaking to the leaders of the other three Quad nations last week in the group’s first summit, there was a moment when he grew a little emotional.

Having withstood the worst effects of COVID-19, Ho Chi Minh City authorities have their sights on an epidemic of a very different kind.

Our leaders in Canberra will need a deft touch to navigate a more robustly competitive diplomatic environment as tensions mount between the United States and China.

Matthew O’Kane and Christa Avery are the latest Australians detained by Myanmar’s military regime since the February 1 coup.

US businesses have been offering their staff incentives to get the COVID vaccine, but one business has gone a step further.

“We know what it would mean for people but we also know that many New Zealanders are nervous,” New Zealand’s Prime Minister says.

The trial of Michael Kovrig, who has been held in China for more than two years on espionage charges, has begun in Beijing in a closed courtroom.

Republican congressman Tom Reed has publicly apologised and abandoned a possible run against Governor Andrew Cuomo after a former lobbyist accused him of sexual misconduct.