A 41-year-old man in China's eastern province of Jiangsu has been confirmed as the first human case of infection with a rare strain of bird flu known as H10N3, Beijing's National Health Commission said on Tuesday.
The Biden administration is suspending oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as it reviews environmental impacts of drilling in the remote region that has been the focus of a political fight for decades, according to two people who have been briefed on the administration's plan.
Joe Biden on Tuesday will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit the site of the massacre of hundreds of Black Americans by a white mob in Tulsa, Okla., as he marks one of the worst chapters in the country's history of racial violence.
Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority and to say that laypeople who hold church office also can be sanctioned for similar sex crimes.
Leaders of major international organizations talk about what needs to happen to improve 'equitable access' to COVID-19 vaccines
Peru, which has been among the hardest hit Latin American countries, dramatically increased its official COVID-19 death toll to 180,764 following a government review.
