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Photos of Kyoto's beautiful Arashiyama Bamboo Grove are often heavily edited. This is what Japan's most famous bamboo forest really looks like.

New and more contagious variants of Covid-19 are spreading across Africa, causing a spike in infections and deaths, according to the World Health Organization.

The European Union is piling pressure on the drugmaker to deliver the Covid vaccine supplies it promised.

Thailand will receive its first batch of vaccines next month and plans to start producing its own, according to its finance minister.

"If we are to hold it in Singapore, we will make sure that it is held in a safe and secure manner," Singapore Minister Chan Chun Sing says about hosting WEF.

Both India and China have developed local Covid-19 vaccines while India's Serum Institute is also producing one from AstraZeneca and Oxford University.

Dr. Peter Hotez explains why the U.S. is “in for a tough ride” as new Covid variants spread across the country.

Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio explains why he joined 44 other Republicans to reject the constitutionality of impeaching former President Donald Trump.

After years of accelerating declines in smoking, tobacco giant Altria said it saw a reversal in the trend as consumers changed their habits during the pandemic.

The results were based on 62 confirmed Covid-19 infections among the trial's 15,000 participants.

Agriculture must play a key role in helping to bring climate change policy solutions to fruition —and regenerative agriculture can help achieve that.

New York underreported Covid deaths in nursing homes by as much as 50%, according to a new report from New York Attorney General Letitia James.

"These are companies with serious, serious structural problems. Those problems aren't going to go away," NYU's Aswath Damodaran told CNBC.

Airlines cap a horrible 2020 and expect a difficult start to 2021.

South Carolina health officials said the strain, known as B.1.351, was found in two adults with no history of travel or connection with one another.

A behavioral economist thinks the wild trading in GameStop is the beginning of a major shift in investing power.

Leisure travel may begin to recover later this year, especially if vaccination efforts increase, but business travel might not regain former levels for years.

GM announced its "aspirations" Thursday as part of a larger plan for the Detroit automaker to be carbon neutral by 2040 in its global products and operations.

Coresight Research predicts that as many as 10,000 stores could close in the U.S. this year, which would set a record.

American Airlines is the most-shorted U.S. airline.