Socialist Party leader Edi Rama leaves after casting his vote during the parliamentary election in Surel, near Tirana, Albania, April 25, 2021. /Reuters Albania's ruling Socialist Party looked
Tanks storing treated radioactive water on the premises of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, January 8, 2021. /Getty Editor's note: Zhou Wenxing is a research fellow at Huazhi Instit
Fearing that the double-mutant India strain of coronavirus could be resistant to vaccines, British Health Minister Matt Hancock has announced travel restrictions for pe
Risky uses of AI that threaten people's safety or rights should be banned or tightly controlled, said EU officials. /CFP Risky uses of artificial intelligence (AI) that threaten people's safet
George Floyd, and his last words, are depicted in a mural by graffiti artist "EME Freethinker" on a section of the former Berlin Wall. /AP The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
U.S. President Joe Biden's approval ratings for his first 100 days has remained relatively stable with an average of 53%, according to an analysis of multiple polls by FiveThirtyEight.Biden's numb
02:12 Higher demand for online medical cares will be seen in the post-pandemic era, said Wang Hang, the founder and CEO of Chinese online healthcare giant Haodf.com.Man
A panel of United Nations human experts has joined the chorus of denunciation of a British government report that minimized the impact of racism on the life chances of the nation's ethnic minoriti
05:29 The rate of growth for the electric car industry is reliant on sufficient investment in infrastructure, according to a senior advisor for the non-governmental organization that w
00:50 Hundreds marched through the streets of Chicago on Friday to protest the police shooting of Adam Toledo, a day after the city released a graphic video of a police officer shootin
02:41 In the U.S. state of California, record temperatures have been recorded over the past year, as the state witnessed its worst wildfire season in recent history, along with increas
JPMorgan Chase & Co building in the central business district of Hong Kong, China. /CFP JPMorgan Chase Co's earnings jumped almost 400 percent in the first quarter, blowing past estimates as t
Large crowds of revellers packed into London's Soho on the first night of lockdown restrictions easing. /Tolga Akmen/AFP UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned the country to prepare for m
April is shaping up to be Brazil's darkest month yet in the COVID-19 pandemic, with hospitals struggling with a crush of patients, deaths on track for record highs and
Patients wait for test results in a temporary room of the municipal hospital in Sao Joao de Meriti, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, April 8, 2021. /AP April is shaping up to be Brazil's darkest
Unless nations dramatically improve on carbon cutting pledges made under the 2015 Paris climate treaty, the planet's richest concentrations of animal and plant life will be irreversibly ravaged by gl
With the pandemic sending the planet indoors to workout, the at-home fitness market has boomed. It was only in October last year that three-year-old Future closed $24 million in Series B and Playbook