Harvard team disables newly discovered hormone to reverse diabetes in mice.
Microplastics cause damage to human cells, study shows
A man ended a 39-day-long hunger strike outside the Swiss parliament on Thursday, declaring "Victory!" after the MPs agreed to be briefed by scientists on the latest climate change research
Botswana, one of the first countries to detect Omicron, sees no rise in hospitalisations
Omicron Four Times More Transmissible Than Delta in Japan Study
Pope Francis says ‘sins of the flesh’ aren’t that ‘serious’
Europe Pushes New Rules Turning Gig Workers Into Employees
Record 6million in England waiting for routine hospital treatment as NHS pressure grows
Eleven villagers shot and burned alive by Myanmar soldiers. Myanmar soldiers rounded up and killed 11 people in a village, shooting and then setting them on fire, according to people in the area and local media reports.
France says no diplomatic boycott for Beijing Olympics.
Japanese scientists develop glowing masks to detect coronavirus
Nicaragua cuts ties with Taiwan, switches side to China
Kosovo Boycotts Olympic Games in Beijing
A top Ukrainian general warned the country's army is not strong enough to fend off a full-scale Russian invasion
22 journalists killed in Philippines since Rodrigo Duterte became president
Defra may approve ‘devastating’ bee-killing pesticide, campaigners fear: UK government may be about to approve the use of a controversial bee-killing pesticide
49 migrants dead, dozens hurt in truck crash in south Mexico
Myanmar troops burn alive 11 in retaliation attack: reports
Number of jailed journalists reached global high in 2021
NATO, Ukraine autonomy pose diplomatic challenges for Biden - Biden Administration officials have suggested that the U.S. will press Ukraine to formally cede a measure of autonomy to eastern Ukrainian lands now controlled by Russia-backed separatists who rose up against Kyiv in 2014.