Maldives is set to offer visitors vaccinations on arrival as part of its three-pronged initiative aimed at reviving the country's hard hit tourism sector.

COVID misinformation is flourishing on Facebook, especially in languages other than English.

Jury finds ex-Minneapolis police officer guilty on all counts

The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed legislation that would allow banks to provide services to cannabis companies in states where it is legal, a step towards removing what analysts say is a barrier to development of a national industry.

Internet giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google — collectively known as Big Tech — have accrued billions of users on their digital platforms globally.

Foreign-based actors, principally in China and Russia, are spreading online disinformation rooted in QAnon conspiracy theories, fueling a movement that has become a mounting domestic terrorism threat, according to new analysis of online propaganda by a security firm.

Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said work had begun on the fist module of a new station, after officials warned that Russia was considering pulling out of the ISS, one of the few successful examples of cooperation with the West.

According to an ancient Chinese proverb, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Very often, we focus not on those initial small steps but on giant leaps, often undertaken by government. Think, for example, of Franklin D. Roosevelt signing Social Security into law in 1935, a giant step that changed the lives of the elderly. Or Lyndon B. Johnson’s signature on the Medicare law 30 years later that did the same.

US Senate lawmakers are proposing to ban private ownership of big cats such as lions and tigers in the wake of the Netflix documentary series Tiger King. Support for the Big Cat Public Safety Act, which would also ban public contact with big cat cubs, was announced by four bipartisan senators.

Peloton shares fell nearly 9% in afternoon trading following an "urgent warning" from the United States government telling owners of the company's Tread+ to stop using the machine.

Prosecution says ‘reason George Floyd is dead is because Mr Chauvin’s heart was too small’ – follow the latest trial news live

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization of LA-based journalists for outlets based abroad which hosts the annual Golden Globe Awards, just keeps digging the hole it is in even deeper.

Anthony Powell, the three-time Oscar-winning costume designer known for helping shape the looks of Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones and Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil, has died. He was 85.

Under Jimmy Carter, he was the first V.P. to serve as a genuine partner of a president. His own run for the top position ended in a crushing defeat.

Animal welfare representatives are breathing a sigh of relief after a panicked phone call to their local offices about a strange creature in a tree turned out to be nothing more than a … croissant. According to a BBC report and a Facebook post, a woman in Krakow, Poland, called her local animal help center, asking for help with something caught in a tree earlier this week...

From patients to doctors to the general public, COVID-19 has spared no one. One of the most affected have been nurses who have worked through exhaustion, long hours, while going through symptoms of long-COVID and losing their colleagues to the virus.

Last week, Siri leaked the date and time of the upcoming Apple event. And this wasn’t the first time Apple’s own virtual assistant told the world about an upcoming event before the official announcement. So step back Jon Prosser. Stand aside Mark Gurman. Siri is now the most accurate Apple leaker.

Indigenous Amazon leader Nemonte Nenquimo won the Goldman Environmental Prize for her organizing work to save Ecuador’s rainforests.

A third option is necessary: a way to rent without making someone else rich.

The trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin—who is charged with second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in the death of unarmed Black man George Floyd last year—wrapped up on Monday as attorneys for both sides delivered lengthy closing statements as the city and nation began bracing for the jury's verdict.