Countries are being urged to strengthen their carbon-cutting targets by the end of 2022 in a draft agreement published at the COP26 Glasgow climate summit. The document says vulnerable nations must get more help to cope with the deadly impacts of ... Read More

Anti-vaxxers out in force in the city of Leipzig, in Saxony: This eastern state has the lowest vaccine take-up rate in Germany One of Germany's top virologists has warned that a further 100,000 people will die from Covid if nothing's done ... Read More

Mauritius has closed all schools as the number of Covid cases continue to rise. Education Minister Leela Devi Dookhun-Lutchoomun made the announcement in a statement on national television on Tuesday. She said all classes would be held online from Thursday. The country has ... Read More

France has formally handed back 26 artefacts that it looted from what is now Benin in 1892, when it was governed under the French empire. French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed his Beninese counterpart, Patrice Talon, to Paris to formally sign over ... Read More

Malala Yousafzai tweeted that it was "a precious day" in her life Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has "tied the knot" with her partner during an Islamic ceremony in Birmingham. She and Asser Malik took part in a nikkah ceremony, where ... Read More

Climate change-related disasters, such as prolonged drought, floods and locust infestations, have displaced thousands of Somali farmers from their land, threatening food security in the Horn of the African nation. Somalia contributes less than 0.003% of greenhouse gas emissions into the ... Read More

An Ethiopian refugee stands as she is registered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees at the Um Rakuba camp for Ethiopian refugees fleeing the fighting in the country's Tigray region, on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, Nov. 28, 2020. The United ... Read More

The Duke of Sussex has said he warned Twitter boss Jack Dorsey about political unrest in the US - just a day before the deadly 6 January riots. "I warned him his platform was allowing a coup to be staged," Prince ... Read More

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is returning to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow - urging nations to "pull out all the stops" to limit warming. The first draft of an agreement setting out how countries will cut emissions to avoid temperature ... Read More

Mr Robert E. Cornergy Jr. (left), Chairman, New York City Council, Democratic Conference, making a symbolic presentation to Dr Ibrahim Mohammed Awal (3rd from left), the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, and Mr Akwasi Agyeman (2nd from right), CEO, ... Read More