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Each afternoon without fail, a handful of men mostly in their 60s gather at an old bicycle shed in southwest Beijing, clad in sweatshirts and track pants and ready to pump iron.

* More than 2,700 fires recorded between November and March * Nepal had 75% less rainfall this winter compared to average

A highly contagious variant of COVID-19 first identified in Britain does not cause more severe disease in hospitalised patients, according to a new study published in the medical journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases on Monday.

David Cameron’s antics may have removed some of the obstacles to long-awaited reform, writes Sean O’Grady

Government pledges to make water safe before release, but plan is likely to raise concern.

The makers of the Bafta-winning documentary want to preserve the underwater ecosystem it features.

Professional sports in Minneapolis were effectively suspended on Monday following the fatal police shooting of a 20-year-old Black man in the suburb of Brooklyn Center and subsequent outcry.

Britain's economy will be back to its pre-COVID-19 level around the middle of next year, according to economists in a Reuters poll who said unemployment would peak at 6.2% as 2021 draws to a close and the pandemic job support scheme ends.

U.S. President Joe Biden met with executives from major companies on Monday to discuss the global chip shortage that has hit automakers and spurred Intel Corp to announce it plans to make chips for car plants at its factories in the next si...

City’s Covid Marshalls not enforcing social distancing measures, says one man in the area

Contaminated wastewater at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant will be released into the ocean “in around two years,” the Japanese government has announced, despite calls from China and South Korea urging again...

Experts raise concerns about residents who refuse to evacuate as 'huge explosion' reported at La Soufriere volcano.

An overhaul of bank capital rules would be the most effective step regulators could take to support climate action, a group of 50 sustainable finance experts said on Tuesday. In a survey carried out by the non-profit Climate Safe Lending Ne...

Brazil recorded 35,785 additional confirmed cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, along with 1,480 deaths from COVID-19, the Health Ministry said on Monday.