A crowd of people apparently spooked by gunfire and an electrical explosion stampeded at an event to distribute financial aid in Yemen's capital late Wednesday, killing at least 78 and injuring dozens more, according to eyewitnesses and a Houthi rebel official.
The World Mosquito Program plans to release the billions of bugs from a mosquito factory that will be built in Brazil in an effort to slow the transmission of dengue fever in the country.
Terrified Sudanese who have been trapped for days in their homes by fighting in the capital fled on Wednesday, hauling whatever belongings they could and trying to get out of the city, as the army and its paramilitary rival made a new attempt at a ceasefire after a failed truce the day before.
China has an aging population with stagnant growth, while India has a much younger population, a higher fertility rate and has seen a decrease in infant mortality.
Twitter has quietly removed a policy against the "targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals," raising concerns that the Elon Musk-owned platform is becoming less safe for marginalized groups.
Nearly six years after a large gathering of white nationalists in Charlottesville erupted in violent clashes with counterprotesters, a grand jury in Virginia has indicted multiple people on felony charges for carrying flaming torches with the intent to intimidate.
The death toll rose to 29 on Wednesday from a fire at a Beijing hospital that was one of the Chinese capital's deadliest in at least two decades.
