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France imposes border controls in scramble to avoid lockdown
After a slow start to vaccinations, French health authorities reported that a million people had received coronavirus inoculations by Saturday.
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No Europe deaths directly tied to COVID jabs, say experts
Health agencies stress however that the vast majority of post-vaccination fatalities were elderly, already vulnerable and often sick.
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First of 22 trapped miners rescued from Chinese mine: state media
Rescuers have been battling difficult conditions to help the workers since an underground explosion at the Hushan mine in Shandong province sealed them underground amid rising waters on 10 January.
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Tears and fears as India's huge coronavirus vaccine push falters
After one week, India has vaccinated 1.4 million people, or 200,000 people per day. It had initially hoped to process 300,000 per day before ramping up the rollout and inoculating 300 million by July.
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Veteran US broadcaster Larry King dies aged 87
Larry King's media company, Ora, announced his death on Saturday in a statement issued on his Twitter account.
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Pride and caution in Wuhan on lockdown anniversary
A year ago Saturday, Wuhan shocked the world by confining its 11 million anxious citizens to their homes, beginning a traumatic 76-day lockdown that underscored the growing threat of a mysterious pathogen emanating from the city.
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Vaccine boost for poor countries as Biden warns of '600,000 dead'
America marked its third consecutive day of more than 4,000 coronavirus deaths, bringing the overall count to 413,000 with 24.8 million confirmed infections.
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Trump impeachment trial to begin week of 8 February
The newly announced schedule reflects a deal struck by Senate leaders to delay the substantive portion of the trial for two weeks so that the chamber may conduct other critical business including confirmation of President Joe Biden's cabinet nominees.
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US Senate confirms Austin as first black chief of Pentagon
Lloyd Austin will be the first African American to lead the Department of Defense, and takes on the job as the Pentagon sees the need for greater efforts to root out racism in the ranks and give more opportunities for leadership positions to minorities.
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Trump impeachment to be sent to Senate on Monday: top lawmakers
Donald Trump was impeached on a single charge of "incitement of insurrection" for his role in whipping up his supporters during a speech in Washington on 6 January, the day a pro-Trump mob stormed Congress with deadly consequences.
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Rio scraps 2021 carnival over coronavirus woes
Brazil has been in the grips of a second wave of infections since November, with more than 1,000 daily deaths and an overall toll of more than 214,000 deaths.
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Biden orders expanded aid to address growing hunger crisis
The decree, one of two executive orders the White House said he will sign on Friday, is modest and far short of the actions the president has called for from Congress.
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Google threatens to block Australians over media law
Google Australia managing director Mel Silva warned a Senate committee in Canberra that the world-first media law was "unworkable" and would undermine the functioning of the internet.
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One year after lockdown, Wuhan clubbers hit the dancefloor
As the rest of the world continues to grapple with lockdowns and soaring infections, young people in the city, once the epicentre of the novel coronavirus, are enjoying their hard-earned freedom.
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Rescuers say at least two more weeks to free Chinese miners
The blast at the Hushan mine in Shandong province sealed 22 workers hundreds of metres underground on 10 January.
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No computer, no heat: UK's poorest struggle with homeschooling
More than 93,000 people have died in Britain in the outbreak, and the country has been in a new lockdown since early this month, as a new variant of the virus has caused a worrying surge in cases.
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Biden orders masks, travel clampdown in new war on Covid
Signing 10 executive orders in the White House, Biden told the nation that the COVID-19 death toll would likely rise from 400,000 to half a million next month - and that drastic action was needed.
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UK pledges $55 million in aid during Raab visit to Sudan
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab arrived in Khartoum late Wednesday on the first visit by a British foreign secretary to the East African country in over a decade.
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Inside Covax: The global plan to share COVID vaccines
In Covax, funding for vaccines is covered for the 92 lower- and lower-middle income economies involved, while for richer countries, it operates as a back-up insurance policy.
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Twin suicide bombing in Baghdad kill 32, wound 110
The attack was the bloodiest in Baghdad since January 2018, when a suicide bomber killed more than 30 people in the same square.
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OPINION: US President Joe Biden, empathiser-in-chief after Trump storm
With the coronavirus pandemic and the resultant economic downturn, the man who has endured unspeakable personal tragedy of his own has been reiterating the message he gave shortly after the election: help is on the way.
