Hundreds of millions of students around the world are out of school due to COVID-19, and the UN warns that COVID is exacerbating education inequalities that existed even before the pandemic.
U.S. Capitol Police are stepping up security at Washington-area transportation hubs and taking other steps to safeguard travelling lawmakers as Congress continues to react to this month's deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol.
Regulators authorized AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine for use in adults throughout the European Union on Friday, amid criticism the bloc is not moving fast enough to vaccinate its population.
Johnson & Johnson's long-awaited vaccine appears to protect against COVID-19 with just one shot. It's not as strong as some of its two-shot rivals but still potentially helpful for a world in dire need of more doses.
The United Nations and Western governments voiced alarm on Friday over threats by Myanmar's military that have stirred fears of a coup in the aftermath of an election the army says was fraudulent.
The European Union has made public a redacted version of the contract it agreed to with the drugmaker AstraZeneca, which lies at the heart of a major row over coronavirus vaccine deliveries.
Pakistan's government on Friday appealed to the country's Supreme Court to review its decision to free an Islamist convicted of kidnapping and beheading U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, a day after the United States expressed "deep concerns" over the ruling.
A new, more contagious COVID-19 variant is advancing through Brazil's Amazon region, where the coronavirus death rate is more than triple that of Canada's. ICUs are full and oxygen supplies are running low while the disease spreads in remote and poor areas.
China says it will no longer recognize the British National Overseas passport as a valid travel document or form of identification amid a bitter feud with London over a plan to allow millions of Hong Kong residents a route to residency and eventual citizenship.
A fire killed four patients at a COVID-19 hospital in the Romanian capital Bucharest early on Friday and 102 others were evacuated, officials said, the second deadly hospital fire in the European Union state in under three months.
