Trying to solve Africa's Covid mystery
KAMAKWIE, Sierra Leone — There are no COVID fears here. The district’s COVID-19 response center has registered just 11 cases since the start of the pandemic, and no deaths. At the regional...
Egypt feels the pinch of rising food prices
CAIRO — The price of groceries was going up everywhere Souad Amer checked, so it was with nervous hope that she waded into a government-subsidized market in her Cairo neighborhood where a...
Second flight recorder from china crash found
Search crews have found the second of two flight recorders from a passenger plane that abruptly plunged to earth in southern China, killing 132 people, officials said Sunday, nearly a week after the...
US plans to offer second booster shots
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is planning to give Americans age 50 or older the option of a second booster of the Pfizer or Moderna coronavirus vaccine without recommending outright that...
WHO says BA.2 driving most virus cases
The World Health Organization reported that the highly contagious omicron subvariant, BA.2, that is helping to drive another surge of coronavirus cases in Europe is now the dominant version of omicron...
Madeleine Albright, first woman Secretary of State, dies
Madeleine K. Albright, a child of Czech refugees who fled from Nazi invaders and Communist oppressors and then landed in the United States, where she flourished as a diplomat and the first woman to...
Ukrainians try to push back Russian forces
Ukrainian forces pressed to thwart the Russian invasion, mounting counteroffensives on multiple fronts and retaking a town outside of Kyiv on Tuesday, while the more heavily armed Russians, unable to...
China’s air crash: A hunt for survivors
Rescue workers on Tuesday searched a remote mountain valley in southern China for any survivors in Monday's crash of a passenger plane carrying 132 people that plunged more than 20,000 feet in just...
Is geometry a language that only humans know?
During a workshop in the fall at the Vatican, Stanislas Dehaene, a cognitive neuroscientist with the Collège de France, gave a presentation chronicling his quest to understand what makes humans —...
Another COVID-19 surge coming. Are we ready for it?
Scarcely two months after the omicron variant drove coronavirus case numbers to frightening heights in the United States, scientists and health officials are bracing for another swell in the pandemic...
How simple exercises may save your lower back
The past few years have not been kind to my lower back. Between the physical tolls of pregnancy, parenting and working from home, I have a constant stiff, achy feeling in my lower spine. I am not...
Impact on Ukraine’s grain exports causing ‘collateral hunger’
GENEVA — Ukraine’s food supply chain is “falling apart” amid the Russian invasion, and the disruption of food supplies within the country is threatening crucial exports of grain that could...
China reports first Covid deaths in over a year
China, which is facing its worst COVID-19 surge since the coronavirus first emerged in the city of Wuhan, on Saturday reported its first deaths from the virus in more than a year. The two deaths...
Oil below $100 over China’s Covid scare
Oil prices dropped on Tuesday, falling below $100 a barrel, as China, the world’s largest oil importer, imposed new lockdowns to combat an outbreak of the coronavirus, moves that could threaten...
UK to lift all international travel restrictions
The British government said Monday that it would scrap its remaining international travel measures this week, noting it was one of the first major economies to do so and calling the move a “landmark...
Changed itineraries, higher fares: Travel affected again
Just as the travel industry was seeking to climb out of a two-year depression, Russia’s assault on Ukraine has scrambled schedules and given Americans pause as they consider international...
Diplomacy quickens to halt Ukraine war
LONDON — Diplomatic activity quickened on multiple fronts Monday as Russia’s war on Ukraine entered an uncertain new phase, with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces widening their...
In a Kyiv basement, 19 surrogate babies are trapped
KYIV, Ukraine — Down a dusty stairwell, hidden from the shelling that has become the grim background noise of Ukraine’s capital, Ludmila Yashenko fusses with the babies. There are 19 of them,...
Street battles hit a Kyiv suburb
IRPIN, Ukraine — In Irpin, just outside the capital city of Kyiv, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers were fighting a street-by-street battle Saturday, turning what was a leafy suburb just two weeks ago...
Dreaming of suitcases in space
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. — The mission to turn space into the next frontier for express deliveries took off from a modest propeller plane above a remote airstrip in the shadow of the Santa Ana...