India’s daily Covid cases saw the slimmest daily rise in one-and-a-half-years despite recent large festivals such as Diwali as vaccination and antibody levels riseSlovakian prime minister Eduard Heger considers 3-week lockdownGermany issues warning: ‘v…
Camels bearing healthcare deliver hope in Kenya – photo essay
When the roads are not up to it, a mobile clinic on hooves brings family planning and other medical supplies to remote communities. Photographer Ami Vitale visits Lekiji to see how the villagers have reaped the benefitsThirteen camels amble their way a…
Dresses, deities and devil-chasing: religious pilgrimages – in pictures
From Bulgaria to Haiti, photographer Mathieu Richer Mamousse has joined the congregation to capture prayers, bell-ringing and Vodou Continue reading…
Covid patients in ICU now almost all unvaccinated, says Oxford scientist
Exclusive: Prof Sir Andrew Pollard says most of those infected who are fully vaccinated will experience only mild symptomsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCovid-19 is no longer a disease of the vaccinated, the head of the Oxf…
Biden’s Build Back Better plan faces uphill battle as bill advances to Senate – live
Senate Democrats indicate they will make changes to billTlaib: ‘Corporate’ Senate Democrats imperil Build Back BetterBiden announces he will renominate Powell as Fed chairmanSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailAmerica’s democrac…
Aid workers say Mediterranean a ‘liquid graveyard’ after 75 feared dead off Libya
People smugglers are putting hundreds to sea this autumn despite stormy weatherMore than 75 people are feared dead after their boat capsized in stormy seas off the coast of Libya while attempting to reach Europe in one of the deadliest shipwrecks this …
Meredith Kercher killer Rudy Guede could be freed within days
Man convicted of murdering British student asks for sentence, due to end in January, to be reducedRudy Guede, the only person definitively convicted of the murder of the British student Meredith Kercher, could be freed in the coming days after completi…
Peng Shuai backlash leaves IOC facing familiar criticism over human rights
Analysis: Olympic committee is accused of engaging in a ‘publicity stunt’ by taking part in video callAs human rights organisations and the world’s media questioned the whereabouts of the Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, the International Olympic Comm…
From energy prices to the new cold war, we were warned about 2021 – back in 1997 | Zoe Williams
Terrorism, tension between China and the US, an uncontrollable plague … Wired’s 24-year-old list of what could go wrong with the world is depressingly familiarIn 1997, when things could only get better, Wired magazine gave over an issue to the raw opti…
Outrage after two journalists detained at Indigenous protest in Canada
Press organizations condemn arrest of Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano at pipeline protest in British ColumbiaPress organizations in Canada have condemned the arrest of two journalists who were detained while covering Indigenous-led resistance to a c…