The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control (CDC) have launched a new laboratory network that will reinforce genome sequencing...
Google and Twitter have said they are clamping down further on misinformation online ahead of the US elections.
Messaging platforms expect a flood of false...
The wildfires raging in more than a dozen western United States (U.S.) states have painted the sky and polluted the air, causing disturbing scenes to unfold in...
A 35-year-old woman from Kenyoni One Village in Kitutu Chache North in Kisii County has been banished from her in-laws’ community after she allegedly...
The National Bureau of Investigations (NBI) on Tuesday arrested four Nigerian nationals at Muntinlupa City for alleged involvement in an international syndicate that hacks...
The U.S. government on Monday will stop conducting enhanced screening of passengers on inbound international flights for COVID-19, Yahoo News has learned.
The screening operations have...
Scotland’s new contact tracing app to help combat the spread of coronavirus has gone live.
The Scottish government has said the software will support the...
The owner of British Airways (BA) has joined rivals by announcing significant cuts to flight schedules, blaming a “levelling off” in passenger demand.
International Airlines...
The government’s scientific advisory group earlier said mass testing could lead to a large number of false-positive results.
The mass testing programme would cost £100bn...
President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed what happened when he visited United States President, Donald Trump at the White House in April 2018.
According to him, President...
Republican President Donald Trump, accused by Joe Biden of putting lives at risk in his handling of the coronavirus, on Monday called his Democratic...
A caring and loyal man tragically live-streamed his own death on Facebook with app TikTok scrambling to remove the clip which is being re-shared by its...
A three-year-old girl has been raped and murdered in India as part of an on-going feud between rival families, the victim’s father claims.
The child,...
A cleaner, who accidentally received £90,000 in her bank account but did not tell anyone, is now under investigation.
Comfort Konadu, 52, mistakenly received the...
Is there a link between poverty, crowded accommodation, and Africa's bafflingly low infection and death rates from the pandemic?
As the number of infections dips...
As we mentioned earlier, the Trump administration has indicated it will not be joining a WHO-backed coalition of 172 countries to share equitably any...
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies fatally shot Dijon Kizzee, a 29-year-old Black man, during a confrontation Monday afternoon in South LA, sparking protests at...
Twenty-four-year-old pregnant Ghanaian YouTube star dancer, Nicole Thea, who died along with her unborn son is set to be buried on September 4, 2020.
Nicole...
What’s 869,463,853 times 73?
While the average person would still be reaching for their calculator, 20-year-old Neelakantha Bhanu Prakash already has the answer.
It’s 63,470,861,269 and...
A COVID-19 vaccine could be available earlier than expected if ongoing clinical trials produce overwhelmingly positive results, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top...
A 26-year-old woman iidentified as Rutendo Nhemachena has reportedly died while undergoing baptism at Manyame river in Zimbabwe. Nhemachena is believed to have been possessed by a...
African Union (AU) member states and countries in the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) are the direct beneficiaries of a new collaboration by...
A man's peaceful home was shattered when two large snakes smashed through his kitchen ceiling.
David Tait was shocked when the carpet snakes tumbled on...
Hundreds of students boycotted the start of the school year in Belarus on Tuesday, answering a call from exiled opposition figure Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya to...
A tourist has been criticised for 'humiliating' a tiger after she fearlessly grabbed its testicles at a zoo in Thailand.
The woman was visiting the Tiger...
There has been an exponential rise in the total number of coronavirus cases, hospitalisation and deaths among children and teenagers in the United States...
