Governments are being urged to do what is “morally right” to ensure all countries have enough jabs – as the World Health Organisation set a target...
More than 29 inches of rain – nearly two-and-a-half feet – fell in 12 hours in Italy this week, breaking a European record, as parts of...
The first vaccine against malaria could be rolled out to billions of people after key advisers to the World Health Organisation (WHO) gave it the green...
Taiwan’s defence minister has warned that China will be capable of mounting a “full-scale” invasion of the island by 2025. Chiu Kuo-cheng said on Wednesday that...
A French actor has said he was raped by a priest when he was eight years old. Laurent Martinez spoke out on the day a damning...
The Catholic Church in France showed complete and sometimes cruel indifference to people who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of clergy for decades, a commission...
Two more earthquakes have rattled the Spanish island of La Palma amid a fresh surge of lava from an erupting volcano. Part of the volcano’s crater...
North and South Korea have reopened their hotlines, around two months after they were cut by the North. At least 49 hotlines have been set up...
An erupting volcano in the Canary Islands has turned “much more aggressive”, officials have warned, after two further cracks blew open, spewing lava. Amid reports of...
A huge blaze has torn through a Caribbean island resort, ravaging more than 200 homes and businesses and forcing hundreds of residents to flee. Dramatic video...
A serial killer who carried out a spate of murders and rapes in and around Paris in the 1980s and 1990s has been revealed as a...
An erupting volcano in the Canary Islands has blown open a third fissure – sending a fresh river of lava down the mountainside. It came as...
Australia will start to reopen its international border from November, allowing fully vaccinated travellers into the country. Only Australian citizens and permanent residents will be able...
On a recent Sunday evening in Beijing, a few minutes before 8pm, Huang Chong opened a Harry Potter video game on her smartphone and tried to...
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to a year of house arrest after illegally financing his campaign for re-election in 2012. A court in...
At least 116 people have been killed and 80 injured during a battle between gangs in a jail in what has been described as the worst...
People on the Spanish island of La Palma have been urged to stay indoors due to toxic gas fears after lava from an erupting volcano reached...
North Korea has claimed it has developed a new hypersonic missile following a test flight on Tuesday. If true it would represent a significant step forward...
Twenty-one World Health Organisation (WHO) staff members were allegedly involved in sexual abuse during the agency’s response to the Ebola crisis in central Africa, according to...
Le Palma’s donation centre is a place for evacuated residents to find clothes and food, and also a place for them to console each other. I...