Afghanistan's new Taliban rulers have ordered that only boys and male teachers may return to the classroom on Saturday.

The mayor of Del Rio, Texas has declared a state of emergency after more than 10,000 undocumented migrants poured into the city.

The figure would shatter the temperature targets of the Paris climate agreement, which aimed for warming well below 2C and preferably capped at 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

The meeting between Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo, Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara and Doumbouya came after a regional summit on Thursday, which urged swift elections and sanctioned Guinea's putschists.

After a slow start, France now has one of the world's highest vaccination rates, with close to 90% of adults in the country of 67 million people having received one or two vaccine doses.

While the opposition has yet to make major national inroads against the historic party that brought Nelson Mandela to power in 1994, the ANC has been hemorrhaging votes over the years and stands to lose even more in the local elections, analysts and polls predict.

The World Health Organization says clinical trials are underway to evaluate eight nasal spray vaccines that target COVID-19.

It is convention for senior members of the royal family to ask that their will remain private.

The move is a massive setback to Pakistan, which has been trying to revive tours by foreign sides after home internationals were suspended in the aftermath of a terror attack on the Sri Lankan side in 2009.

Elena was 'startled' by the arrival of a male white rhino named Limpopo at the Wildlands zoo in the eastern city of Emmen near the German border.

The 76-year-old Nobel laureate is currently on trial for flouting coronavirus restrictions during polls her party won in a landslide last year, illegally importing walkie talkies and sedition.

Lawyer Alexander Klauser, acting for the Schopf family and the VSV consumer organisation helping them and others bring their cases to court, said the official shortcomings that allowed Ischgl and the surrounding area to become a virus hotspot were manifold.

The 79-year-old virologist was speaking at a ceremony in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa marking the arrival on the market of the "Ebanga" treatment, which was approved last December by the US Food and Drug Administration.

Despite turning the entire TV landscape upside-down since its groundbreaking online platform launched in 2007, leading streamer Netflix has never won for best drama at the small-screen version of the Oscars, nor best comedy, nor best limited series.

Barcelona had intially forecast revenues of 791 million euros ($932 million) for the 2020/2021 fiscal year. However, this had been based on the assumption that fans would return to stadiums last December post-pandemic, which ultimately did not happen.

The app promoted an initiative that outlines for Alexei Navalny supporters which candidate they should back to unseat Kremlin-aligned politicians.

Under pressure coach Mario Ledesma lost his first choice number 10 Nicolas Sanchez to injury in last week's 39-0 loss to the New Zealanders but had a ready replacement in Domingo Miotti.

Eighteen years on from reaching the UEFA Cup final in Seville, Celtic returned to Andalusia and got off to a dream start at the Benito Villamarin.