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India has shattered a global record of daily coronavirus cases, reporting a grim 314,835 new infections in the last 24 hours.

As teenage pregnancies soared during coronavirus lockdowns in Africa's largest urban slum, Kibera, teachers and parents looked for a way to reduce the problem. Their idea was to form a women's football (soccer) club, to direct their energy in a healthy way, and they became so good they are about to join Kenya's professional women's soccer league.

Takao Someya, a professor at the University of Tokyo, has developed an e-skin and LED display to monitor the wearer's health.

Quetta (Pakistan) (AFP) – Ambulances arrive at the scene of a blast in Quetta after a bomb exploded at a top hotel hosting the Chinese ambassador in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least four people and leaving a dozen others wounded.

A Swedish administrative court on Wednesday started proceedings to decide whether its telecom regulator's ban on China's tech giant Huawei from the country's 5G networks was lawful. The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) announced on Oct. 20, 2020 that products from Huawei would not be allowed in the future Swedish 5G networks.

Oxygen cylinders are supplied to a Mumbai hospital and signs outside a vaccination centre read "Covishield out of stock" as India posts a global one-day record of almost 315,000 new Covid infections.

As the Biden climate summit gets underway, there is growing focus on Brazil — a notorious offender of deforestation since Bolsonaro was elected. Now the Brazilian government says it's re-committed to ending illegal logging but wants financial support to speed up the process.

In Turkey's poorest areas, providing children with a good education is an arduous task – especially if daughters, and not just sons, are to benefit.

US President Joe Biden will host 40 world leaders on Thursday for talks on the climate crisis.

An international student from Brazil shared his experience of getting the coronavirus vaccine in central Chinese city Wuhan, which once was hit hard by COVID-19.Luiz Filipe Botelho Esmeraldo, an international student at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, has been in the city for two years.

Hong Kong recently launched one of the world's largest public road tests for technology vital to self-driving cars, further propelling the region into a smart city. Cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) is a wireless technology that enables communication among vehicles, people, and traffic infrastructure.