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Indonesian medics overwhelmed by quake casualties
Doctors in hazard suits treated patients with broken limbs and other injuries at a makeshift medical centre set up outside the only one of the city's hospitals that survived relatively intact - one was flattened by the violent tremor.
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Calls abroad grow for release of Putin critic Navalny
President Vladimir Putin's most vocal critic was still waiting to see his lawyer hours after being taken away at border control following a flight from Germany where he was recovering after a near-deadly poisoning attack.
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Samsung chief jailed for 2.5 years over corruption scandal
Lee Jae-yong, vice-chairman of Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest smartphone and memory chip maker, was found guilty of bribery and embezzlement in connection with the scandal that brought down president Park Geun-hye.
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Biden team lays out plans as inauguration, Trump impeachment loom
Washington was under the watch of thousands of National Guard troops and ringed with security barriers ahead of Biden's swearing in Wednesday, in a nation still rattled by the 6 January attack on the Capitol.
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Police detain Kremlin critic Navalny on arrival in Russia
Navalny was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport less than an hour after he flew in from Germany, where he had been recovering from the poisoning with a nerve agent he says was ordered by President Vladimir Putin.
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China GDP grows at slowest pace in more than four decades in 2020
The 2.3% expansion is the lowest figure since the Chinese economy embarked on major reforms in the 1970s.
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Over 2 million people died from COVID-19 globally; stats around the world
At least 94,450,660 cases of coronavirus have been registered. Of these, at least 57,561,300 are now considered recovered.
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India hails 'life saving' COVID-19 vaccine rollout
India's COVID-19 vaccination drive had a successful start with more than 190,000 people receiving their first jabs and no one hospitalised for major side effects.
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Carbon monoxide leak kills five at Italy care home
"Unfortunately there are five dead, then there are also five other residents in a serious condition and two care workers, a total of seven people in hospital," police told AFP.
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Philippines says China to donate half a million COVID-19 vaccines
President Rodrigo Duterte's administration is scrambling to lock in supplies of COVID-19 vaccines for the country's 110 million people, after being criticised for being too slow off the mark in the global race to procure the drugs.
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Italy surpasses 1 million coronavirus vaccinations: PM
"A heartfelt thanks to citizens and our national health service for the extraordinary response," wrote Conte on Facebook.
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How we got to two million Covid-19 deaths
On December 31, 2019 the World Health Organization (WHO) is alerted to a cluster of pneumonia cases "of unknown cause" in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
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World migration down 30% due to pandemic: UN
Some 281 million people were living outside their country of origin in 2020.
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Merkel ally wins race to lead her party
Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU party on Saturday picked her ally Armin Laschet as its next leader.
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India starts huge vaccine drive as global virus deaths top 2 million
One of the first to receive a jab in the eastern city of Kolkata was 35-year-old health worker Santa Roy.
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Australian bushfire threatens lives in Perth
Locals were told to evacuate if the way was clear or take shelter as the fire poured thick smoke over the area.
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Hunt for buried survivors after Indonesia quake
At least 45 people died after the 6.2-magnitude quake struck in the early hours of Friday, triggering panic among residents of the island.
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Blow to global vaccine drive as Pfizer delays deliveries
Pfizer said the modifications at the Puurs factory were necessary in order to ramp up its production capacity from mid-February of the vaccine developed with Germany's BioNTech.
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Italy surpasses 1 million coronavirus vaccinations: PM
Earlier on Friday, Health Minister Roberto Speranza signed a new decree that put three regions under a near lockdown.
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British PM tells public to stay home as deaths soar
The prime minister was expected to give a press conference later Friday after the latest government figures showed a 50% rise in weekly deaths, taking the total toll to more than 86,000, the highest in Europe.
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US rioters sought to 'capture and assassinate' lawmakers at Capitol: prosecutors
They said Jacob Chansley, 33, left a note for Mike Pence at the dais in the Senate Chamber where the second-in-command had been standing just minutes before, which read: 'it's only a matter of time, justice is coming.'
