Holiday gatherings and a new variant have driven up COVID cases globally, the UN...
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the U.N. health agency said Wednesday holiday gatherings and the spread of the most prominent variant globally led...
France’s youngest prime minister is a rising political star who follows in Macron’s footsteps
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to appoint a 34-year-old prime minister surprised many because of his age and relatively short career....
Amazon cutting several hundred positions across Prime Video and MGM Studios unit
Amazon is cutting several hundred positions across its Prime Video and MGM Studios unit.Last month Amazon said that Prime Video users would start seeing...
Climate change is shrinking snowpack in many places, study shows. And it will get...
DENVER (AP) — River basins around the world that were once regularly snowbound are increasingly seeing their snowpack shrink and climate change is to...
Amazon’s Twitch cuts more than 500 jobs attempting to turn expensive platform profitable
Twitch, the video game streaming platform acquired by Amazon a decade ago for close to $1 billion, is laying off more than 500 employees...
Kremlin foe Navalny, smiling and joking, appears in court via video link from an...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A smiling and joking Alexei Navalny appeared in court Wednesday via video link from the Arctic penal colony where he...
NHLPA unveils mental health initiative to help hockey players learn more, watch for warning...
Whenever Blake Wheeler endured mental health challenges in his hockey career, he felt better when he talked about them and sought help.When the NHL...
Ancient human DNA hints at why multiple sclerosis affects so many northern Europeans today
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient DNA helps explain why northern Europeans have a higher risk of multiple sclerosis than other ancestries: It’s a genetic legacy...
The largest great ape to ever live went extinct because of climate change, says...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction when climate change put their favorite fruits out of reach...
A veteran diplomat from Laos, the new ASEAN special envoy for Myanmar, embarks on...
BANGKOK (AP) — A veteran Laotian diplomat recently appointed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ’ special envoy to Myanmar arrived Wednesday on his...