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Hundreds of police personnel have been deployed to search Lewiston and surrounding areas of Maine.

West Yorkshire police have already made an arrest in connection with a "malicious" email that was sent to a number of schools.

The CDC's report found that 13 per cent of teenage girls had attempted suicide one or more times in 2021, with 57 per cent of high school girls reporting experiencing "persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the past year".

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has again come under fire for violating COVID restrictions.

Mandating an increase in days in the office does not address why staff are reluctant to return, warns global workplace creation expert Unispace.

Covid-generation uni students had their first and second year's disrupted by lockdown rules; now they're set to miss out on more learning due to union strikes.

A Tory MP has been left fuming with anger after someone left a box of faeces outside her constituency office in Gloucestershire.

Oil prices fell more than 2% at the start of Asia trade on Monday after Chinese officials on the weekend reiterated their commitment to a strict COVID containment approach, dashing hopes of an oil demand rebound at the world's top crude importer.

Authorities in the Chinese city of Guangzhou have had to apologise for breaking into the houses of those who had been taken to quarantine in a hotel.

Britain's J D Wetherspoon warned of losses this year as costs for labour, repairs and marketing eat into its bottom line, and said 'natural beer drinkers' belonging to an older population were staying away from pubs, hurting its sales.

A man stabbed his wife 29 times at their house in Thornton Heath, south London during the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020.

Since March, Chinese companies and research institutes have filed at least 50 COVID-related patents

Retail sales in April shrank 11.1% year-on-year, after falling 3.5% in March.

Iron ore and other steelmaking inputs were also supported following reports that Shanghai will gradually reopen for business following weeks of lockdowns

A study conducted by the researchers in UK has found that women and young adults were more likely to gain weight during the first Covid-19 induced lockdown.

After lifting two years of on-and-off coronavirus curbs in March, the government was counting on what's known as "revenge spending"

May 1 is a public holiday in many countries and Sunday saw events on every continent.

Oil prices have been volatile as Beijing has shown no sign of easing lockdown measures despite the impact on its economy and global supply chains.

Authorities in Beijing are continuing to crack down on COVID-19 outbreaks

The residents of Beijing were seen flocking to markets on Monday to stock up on food and other essential supplies in case the Chinese government imposes a Shanghai-style lockdown.

US federal judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle said the mask mandate exceeds the statutory authority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Officials have scrambled in recent weeks to contain cases spanning multiple regions

On Wednesday, the government announced its plan to expand the rollout of second COVID-19 booster shot for people over 60.

China's zero-Covid strategy is under extreme pressure as the virus whips across the country, with another outbreak in the northeast.

Johnson has already apologised for the parties, which included Christmas celebrations -- and a drink-fuelled gathering the evening before Prince Philip's funeral.

China has had to shut down the Disney resort located in its financial hub of Shanghai as the country faces its worst Covid-19 outbreak in the last two years.

Isak Munda, a daily wage labourer from the Indian state of Odisha who was struggling to earn a living during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, has now become a YouTube star. He had uploaded his first video on the platform in March and now has almost 800,000 subscribers.

Scenes of closed neighbourhoods, panic buying and police cordons cast back to the early phase of the pandemic, which first emerged in China in late 2019.

He cautioned that the optimistic scenario required countries to pursue vaccination campaigns and surveillance to detect new variants.

The men had been working in the capital's port, where humanitarian aid has been pouring in from around the globe since the January 15 eruption.