Wilson, the anaconda, gets an annual medical examination. Preliminary results? She is not pregnant. Her four rows of teeth are in great shape too. And what about those unblinking eyes? No worries on that front, either. (April 27)
Washington (AFP) – Zalmay Khalilzad, Washington's special envoy to Afghanistan, warns in a Senate hearing that if the Taliban were to seize power militarily from the government in Kabul, they will have little international support. "They will face isolation, regional opposition, sanctions, and international opprobrium," he says.
Three months after India's Prime Minster Narendra Modi's declaration of a win over Covid-19, the country is now in the grips of a devastating second wave, the healthcare infrastructure is at breaking point and an oxygen supply shortage compounding the death toll.
The "blind box" toys, first popularised in Japan, have fixated China in recent years, driving a booming second-hand market and decorating the desks of white-collar workers across the country. "Blind box" toys give buyers a sense of mystery, showing a range of possible figures inside, and occasionally giving out a rare and unadvertised figure when opened.
April's full moon, known as the "Super Pink Moon", was seen across the globe on Tuesday, April 27.
The Red Cross is helping India gain control of a record wave of COVID-19 infections and deaths that have overwhelmed its health care system. On Tuesday, India reported 323,144 new infections for a total of more than 17.6 million cases. (April 27)
A captain with the New York City Department of Corrections has been charged with criminally negligent homicide for allegedly ordering subordinates not to help a detainee as he hanged himself in a cell.
With police training programs across the country under intense scrutiny after Derek Chauvin's murder conviction, one department in California is using several high-profile police killings of Black Americans as it trains the next generation of officers to better anticipate and respond to high-risk encounters.
Loveland, Colorado police officers laughed and joked as they watched body camera video of the arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia, according to footage released by the woman's attorney.
In an exclusive interview with VOA, the director of Oxford University's Jenner Institute says their new malaria vaccine, tested in Burkina Faso, has shown a preliminary efficacy rate of 77%, which could help prevent over 400,000 deaths a year, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
Minneapolis Pastor Curtis Farrar discusses the death of George Floyd after Derek Chauvin was convicted of second-degree murder. CNN's Adrienne Broaddus reports.
An Alaska state lawmaker who called flight attendants "mask bullies" and clashed with airline employees on video over mask rules is now banned from Alaska Airlines for her "continued refusal to comply" with the mask policy, the airline said in a statement.
