The top men’s tennis player in the world, Novak Djokovic, spent Orthodox Christmas in an immigration detention hotel in Australia on Friday as he sought to fend off deportation over the country’s COVID-19 rules and compete in the Australian Open.Djokov…
U.S. employers added 199,000 new jobs in December, 50,000 fewer than November, the Labor Department reported Friday, as business continue to struggle to fill vacancies due to American workers’ reluctance to return to the workforce during the ongoing co…
A team of scientists is sailing to “the place in the world that’s the hardest to get to” so they can better figure out how much and how fast seas will rise because of global warming eating away at Antarctica’s ice.Thirty-two scientists on Thursday are …
The World Health Organization says a new coronavirus variant recently detected in France is nothing to be concerned about right now.Scientists at the IHU Mediterranee Infection Foundation in the city of Marseille say they discovered the new B.1.640.2 v…
Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line on Wednesday canceled sailings amid rising fears of omicron-related coronavirus infections that have dampened the nascent recovery of the pandemic-ravaged cruise industry.Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. called off…
Exactly two years after the World Health Organization issued an alert about “a cluster of cases of pneumonia of unknown cause” in the central Chinese city of Wuhan that evolved into the global COVID-19 pandemic, the world is now struggling under the we…
On the 40th anniversary of a famous skin cancer campaign, research has revealed that a high number of young Australians are not using sun protection.Australia has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world. A new multi-million-dollar awarenes…
President Joe Biden touted an agreement Tuesday between wireless carriers and U.S. regulators to allow the deployment of 5G wireless technology in two weeks.AT&T and Verizon said Monday they would delay activating the new service for two weeks followin…
A community health service in Africa’s largest urban slum is helping poor people get affordable emergency services during the COVID pandemic.The Kibera community emergency response team in Nairobi is offering a $1 monthly fee for access to emergency se…
Conservationists are blaming climate change, land clearing and pesticides for the population crash of one of Australia’s most famous insects. Once a common sight, bogong moths have become rare in recent years. They are now recognized as endangered by t…
World-renowned Kenyan conservationist and fossil hunter Richard Leakey, whose groundbreaking discoveries helped prove that humankind evolved in Africa, died on Sunday at the age of 77, the country’s president said.The legendary paleoanthropologist rema…
France has lowered the age of its mask mandate to 6-year-old children, officials announced Saturday. The news comes just days before schools reopen Monday, following the winter holiday break.While the mandate requires children to wear masks in indoor p…
