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Preliminary data suggests that people with the omicron variant of the coronavirus are 50% to 70% less likely to be hospitalized than those with the delta strain, Britain's public health agency announced Thursday in a finding that one researcher called "a small ray of sunlight."

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday blamed the West for heightened tensions on the Ukrainian border and claimed the Kremlin has not threatened "anyone" despite its military buildup there.

An estimated 22 million Ethiopians will require humanitarian assistance in 2022, according to a United Nations report.

Russian President Vladimir Putin urged the West on Thursday to move quickly to meet Russia’s demand for security guarantees

Pope Francis urged Vatican cardinals, bishops and bureaucrats Thursday to embrace humility this Christmas season, saying their pride, self-interest and the “glitter of our armor” was perverting their spiritual lives and corrupting the church’s mission.

A monument at a Hong Kong university that was the best-known public remembrance of the Tiananmen Square massacre on Chinese soil was removed early Thursday, wiping out the city's last place of public commemoration of the bloody 1989 crackdown.

Britain has recorded 106,122 new daily coronavirus infections, the highest total of the pandemic and the first time the figure has topped 100,000.

South Africa's noticeable drop in new COVID-19 cases in recent days may signal that the country's dramatic omicron-driven surge has passed its peak

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez passed a law by decree making it mandatory to wear a mask outdoors amid a surge in COVID-19 cases.

Nigeria destroyed more than 1 million expired doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine because they could not be used before their expiration date, authorities said.

The Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday the discovery of remnants of two shipwrecks off the Mediterranean coast, replete with a sunken trove of hundreds Roman and medieval silver coins.

Russia on Wednesday said it will engage the U.S. in security talks at the start of the new year to discuss guarantees it wants from the West as tensions continue to escalate over Ukraine.

Germany's top ethics council has done a complete turnaround, now coming out in favor of COVID-19 vaccination requirements for the wider public.

Four Black men accused of planning to murder British Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist Sasha Johnson have pled not guilty to all charges.

Austria announced a slate of new restrictions Wednesday aimed at slowing the spread of the omicron variant, including closing restaurants earlier and imposing stricter entry requirements for people from countries where the variant is already dominant.

China ordered a lockdown of 13 million people in response to a spike in COVID-19 cases

Spaniards looking for a respite from the pandemic’s gloom and doom turned their attention Wednesday to a rite that for more than two centuries has marked the beginning of the festive period: the country’s bumper Christmas lottery, known as “El Gordo,” or “The Fat One.”

Dutch prosecutors on Wednesday demanded life sentences for four suspects in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014.

China announced sanctions on Tuesday on four members of the U.S. government's Commission on International Religious Freedom in retaliation for penalties imposed on Chinese officials over complaints of abuses in the country’s northwestern Xinjiang region.

France’s government is trying to push through a law requiring vaccination to enter any restaurant and many other public places, amid a jump in COVID-19 hospitalizations.