India’s COVID-19 deaths rose by more than 4000 for a second consecutive day on Sunday as calls for a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the virus mounted.

Once upon a time, a 7-year-old refugee living in a homeless shelter sat down at a chess board in school and learned how to play. The boy wasn’t any good at first, but he enjoyed chess as an escape from the chaos of his life.

The co-ordinates given by state media on Sunday, citing the China Manned Space Engineering Office, put the point of impact in the ocean, west of the Maldives archipelago.

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The Biden administration is examining ways to ensure that a waiver of COVID-19 vaccine patents to aid poor countries will not hand sensitive US biopharmaceutical technology to China and Russia.

Multiple blasts at a school in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 40 people and wounded dozens more, mostly female students, officials said, in an attack President Ashraf Ghani blamed on the insurgent Taliban.

Melinda French Gates as frequently spearheaded efforts focused on women’s empowerment, an area where some experts say she could expand her giving.

Sadiq Khan has been re-elected London mayor as had been widely expected, providing some joy to the opposition Labour Party which has suffered a series of disappointing results in other local elections.

The rocket has been losing altitude since last month and will soon make what is called “uncontrolled re-entry” back to Earth.

Bo, the Portuguese water dog who became the first presidential pet in the Obama White House, romping in the halls of power, has died.

The incident is one of the most disruptive digital ransom operations ever reported.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is on course to win 64 seats but needed 65 for a SNP majority and a strong case for a new referendum.

Shaiz Javaid felt abandoned by Australia when borders closed. He is among thousands making up a record surge of university enrolments in Britain.

European Union leaders cranked up their criticism of the US call to waive COVID-19 vaccine patents Saturday, arguing the move would bring no short or midterm relief.

India on Saturday reported its highest ever single-day COVID-19 death toll, as cases continued to rise and states imposed stricter lockdowns.

Anger has swelled over a dispute in an Arab neighbourhood where Palestinians in six households face eviction in favour of Jewish Israelis who claim several properties as theirs.

US federal agents have since seized the cars along with $US2 million from his bank account.

The drop halted a growth streak dating to its founding in 1850 on the heels of a gold rush that prompted a flood of people to seek their fortune in the West.

With global warming opening northern routes, it is believed “Wally” became lost and swam into the Atlantic via the Arctic.

The bomb, planted on a motorbike, injured the Parliament Speaker and former president, and four others including a British national.

The Royal Mail said it was paying tribute to “one of the most iconic and enduring music artists of all time”.

The US economy added just 266,000 jobs in April, well below economists’ expectations that around 1 million jobs would be created.

The World Health Organisation has made its long-awaited decision on China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, approving the jab for emergency use in all adults, meaning it can be rolled out globally.

The Morrison government has trashed a 50-year convention when it comes to public comment about Taiwan.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting that was scheduled for Rwanda in June has been postponed, despite urgings from Australia and Britain not to delay for a second time.

The largest diamond ever cut in Russia - a 100.94 carat stone called the Alrosa Spectacle - will be auctioned in Geneva later this month.

Nearly two months after their abduction by armed gunmen, more than two dozen students in northwest Nigeria’s Kaduna state were reunited with jubilant family members on Friday amid tears and celebratory singing.

A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest and death.

Japan’s premier extended on Friday a state of emergency in Tokyo and three other areas until the end of May to stem a surge in novel coronavirus cases fuelled by the spread of virus variants just months before the Tokyo Olympics.

Pfizer and its partner BioNTech SE have asked US regulators for full approval of their COVID-19 vaccine, which could also help raise confidence in the vaccine.

The schoolgirl pulled a handgun from her backpack and fired multiple rounds inside and outside the school in the small city of Rigby, Idaho, a sheriff said.

Local media suggested a home-made explosive device was planted on a motorcycle parked near his car.

Iron ore hit a record $US200 a tonne on Friday as concerns about Beijing’s dispute with Canberra prompt China’s importers to store up the critical resource.

The bloodshed lays bare Brazil’s perennial divide over whether, as a common local saying goes, “a good criminal is a dead criminal”.

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The letters underscore the former US president’s reputation as a womaniser.

It follows a decision in April to steer adults under 30 away from the Oxford-designed jab over the rare risk of blood clots. But Germany has gone the other way.

Young protesters against military rule in Myanmar have come up with new ways to reduce the chances of a deadly response by the authorities.

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday voiced support for a waiver in a sharp reversal of the US position, and his top trade negotiator.

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The United States is running out of people willing to get vaccinated, forcing governments and businesses to deploy unusual techniques to sway the hesitant.

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Others say a waiver would enable more manufacturers across the globe to produce vaccines and help combat dwindling supply.

A Chinese tabloid characterised reports that the rocket is “out of control” and could cause damage as “Western hype.”

Trump was banned from Twitter, where he had more than 88 million followers, and multiple other social media platforms following the deadly January 6 siege of the US Capitol by his supporters. 

Some questioned whether police were flouting a court ruling last year that forbade them from storming favelas during the pandemic unless under “absolutely exceptional” circumstances. 

The pandemic upended the use of zippered pants and changed people’s eating and drinking habits. There are now indications that it has caused some Americans to abandon washing themselves.

In the town of Susner in Madhya Pradesh state, patients were being treated outdoors under trees, on blankets on the ground.

French fishermen angry over loss of access to waters off their coast have gathered their boats in protest off the English Channel island of Jersey.

There is no time to lose in transitioning to a world run on clean technology but it will have its risks and obstacles, write two senior European lawmakers.