Researchers may have stumbled upon 'ground zero' for a deadly virus that kills nine in ten patients infected with it.

On Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a 90-day freeze on all foreign assistance. Within weeks, USAID, which had operated for more than six decades, was shut down.

Veteran director/producer Ric Esther Bienstock reflects upon a career in documentary and her latest project with Alex Gibney.

By Emma Farge GENEVA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Restrictions imposed by the Taliban are jeopardising the lives of women and their children who are sometimes denied emergency treatment, a U.N. human rights ...

Claims that Alexei Navalny was killed with dart frog poison has placed new scrutiny on Russia’s secretive chemical weapons ...

Over two decades of terrorism, climate change, pandemics, and nonstop media have reshaped risk perception, fostering a ...

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE: EBS) today announced that its Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $50 million of the company's ...

"He’d helped his family group settle in" ...

Staff at Bristol Zoo have spoken of their sadness at the death of the silverback gorilla Jock, and have revealed more about the circumstances of his passing so soon after his big move from the Clifton ...

By Emma Farge GENEVA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk on Friday called for an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty in Iran, warning that dozens more people ...

Thermal scanning at ports of entry is not as effective in keeping rare deadly pathogens out as one may hope, says Hsu Li Yang from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has signed a $1.2 billion, five-year health partnership with the United States, joining Uganda in embracing Washington's new bilateral financing model, even as Zambia ...