Covid-19 tests are in high demand as cases surge, with some Americans waiting in long lines at medical centers and drive-through sites. But now an at-home coronavirus test is available on Amazon.
Self-defense, an essential tool for women living in Katanga, is a concept Hellen Baleke knows very well. In this slum -- one of the largest in Kampala, Uganda's capital city -- boxing gives women the opportunity to learn a new skill and keeps them off the streets. "You have to fight if you want to survive," says Baleke.
The World Health Organization said that China has blocked the arrival of a team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, in a rare rebuke from the UN agency.
Countries around the Asia-Pacific region have closed borders and imposed strict quarantine requirements, essentially sealing themselves off from the world.
Gulf Arab countries signed an agreement aimed at resolving a long-running dispute with Qatar on Tuesday, in a public reconciliation between Doha and its neighbors that paves the way for the end of an embargo on the tiny gas-rich nation.
A group of major oil producers including Saudi Arabia and Russia is deadlocked over whether to increase output as the pandemic forces some economies back into lockdown and governments struggle to distribute vaccines.
Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg said rescuers have given up hope of finding three missing people alive after a village was hit by a dramatic landslide more than six days ago.
Battery electric vehicles accounted for more than half of all cars sold in Norway last year, putting the country way out in front in efforts to kill off the internal combustion engine. And Tesla lost its sales crown to the Volkswagen Group.
An ancient Roman marble slab, used for nearly a decade as a horse mounting block before its origins were revealed, is at the center of a mystery as experts scramble to find out how it ended up in the garden of a bungalow in England.
Dr. Hugo López-Gatell, deputy secretary of health and the leading public face of the Mexican government's coronavirus response, was photographed at what appears to be an oceanfront restaurant in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Indonesia will release radical cleric and alleged 2002 Bali bombings mastermind Abu Bakar Bashir from prison later this week, its government said on Monday, upon completion of his jail term.
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