Some Ugandans welcomed in the New Year with optimism despite an increase in coronavirus cases in the country, spurred by the new omicron variant. The Ugandan police banned public celebrations and the traditional...
Members of the media set up outside St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town early Saturday, ahead of the funeral of South Africa's late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.
The ceremony will go ahead after...
A critically endangered Sumatran tiger cub has been born at ZSL London Zoo. The cub was born on Sunday 12 December to ten-year-old tiger Gaysha. One of an original litter of three, the cub's two siblings did...
Turks in the country's largest city continued to get vaccinated against COVID-19 amid a surge of infections across the nation.
Turkish health ministry statistics registered nearly 40,000 new COVID-19...
Israel began administering fourth doses of COVID-19 vaccines to heart transplant patients on Friday as authorities approved booster shots for people most vulnerable to the virus.
The country launched trials of...
Chancellor Olaf Scholz is urging Germans to pull together to defeat the coronavirus in 2022 and promising to react “quickly and decisively” to the advance of the omicron variant.
In his first...
Peruvians on Thursday flocked to the annual Fair of the Wishes, where they try to boost their chances of attaining their dreams in the new year.
Since 1999, the Fair of the Wishes has brought the mystic...
Brazil's Copacabana Beach was packed with tourists in the week leading up to New Year's Eve, despite the fast spread of a new COVID-19 variant that has curtailed new year events across the globe.
City...
Blazes continued to burn on Thursday night in the US state of Colorado after wind-fueled wildfires broke out near the city of Denver. An estimated 580 homes, a hotel and a shopping center burned and tens of...
Foreigners arriving in Russia and staying for more than 90 days are to be fingerprinted and have regular mandatory medical checks, according to new legislation that came into force on Wednesday.
Anyone staying...