18 Jan 2021
NDTV: Britain is in the difficult position of not only facing the world's highest per capita coronavirus death toll but also being implicated - by labeling, at least - as the source of a highly contagious version of the virus now spreading around the world: the feared "U.K. variant." Details
18 Jan 2021
BBC: A caravan of US-bound Central American migrants has been met with truncheons and tear gas in Guatemala, where security forces blocked their path. Details
18 Jan 2021
BBC: Rescuers say that 12 miners trapped underground after an explosion in a Chinese gold mine a week ago are still alive. Details
18 Jan 2021
BBC: A nurse has received the first vaccine dose of Brazil's Covid-19 immunisation programme after health regulators gave emergency approval to two jabs. Details
18 Jan 2021
BBC: Several Australian Open tennis players have expressed frustration at being confined to their hotel rooms for two weeks after people on their flights tested positive for coronavirus. Details
18 Jan 2021
BBC: Small groups of protesters - some of them armed - have gathered at statehouses in the US, where tensions are high after the deadly riots at the Capitol in Washington. Details
18 Jan 2021
BBC: Putin critic Alexei Navalny has been detained after flying back to Moscow from Germany, five months after he was nearly killed by a nerve agent attack. Details
18 Jan 2021
BBC: People in England aged 70 and over, as well as those listed as clinically extremely vulnerable, will begin receiving offers of a coronavirus vaccine this week. Details
17 Jan 2021
CNN: It took just six weeks for the world to report the most recent 500,000 deaths from Covid-19, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Details
17 Jan 2021
CNN: President-elect Joe Biden plans to sign roughly a dozen executive orders, including rejoining the Paris climate accord and ending the travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries, on his first day in office, according to a memo from incoming chief of staff Ron Klain. Details