- Healthcare & PharmaceuticalsCOVID test, which deliberately infects young adults, found to be safe
The world's first "human challenge" trial in which volunteers were deliberately exposed to COVID-19 to advance research into the disease was found to be safe in healthy young adults, leaders of the study said on Wednesday.
- EuropeKremlin mocks Britain's 'utterly confused' Johnson before Putin talks
Russia mocked British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as "utterly confused" and ridiculed British politicians for their "stupidity and ignorance" on Wednesday, hurling more scorn at the West after President Vladimir Putin accused Washington of trying to provoke war.
- MarketsMorning Bid: Peak inflation? We can only hope
A look at the day ahead in markets from Dhara Ranasinghe.
- Macro MattersRecord euro zone inflation piles pressure on ECB
- Middle EastIslamic State hits back, aided by power vacuum in Iraq and Syria
Yousif Ibrahim no longer travels by night along the roads around his hometown of Jalawla in northeastern Iraq. He fears getting caught up in attacks by Islamic State.
- Healthcare & PharmaceuticalsOmicron subvariant BA.2 likely to have same severity as 'original' -WHO
- EuropeSwiss start relaxing pandemic measures
- Asia PacificAustralia's COVID-19 hospital admissions fall to lowest in weeks
- Asia PacificTokyo's daily COVID-19 infections exceed 20,000 for first time
- Healthcare & PharmaceuticalsU.S. considers authorization of first COVID vaccine for children under 5
- COVID-19Virginia governor sued again over order to make masks optional in schools
- Healthcare & PharmaceuticalsMany countries yet to see peak in Omicron wave, should ease curbs slowly -WHO