UN News - The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned about the COVID-19 surge in China, Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in his first virtual briefing for the year. “We continue to ask China for more rapid, regular, reliable data on hospitalizations and deaths, as well as more comprehensive,
According to a cyber intelligence company, a database of approximately 235 million Twitter users was exposed on an online hacker forum in what is shaping up to be one of the largest data leaks ever recorded. The data dump includes users' names, e-mail addresses, screen names,
UN News - As COVID-19 infections surge in China, coronavirus experts gathered at the UN health agency on Tuesday, to discuss the next steps. In Geneva, a spokesperson for the WHO confirmed during a scheduled press briefing that Chinese scientists had been invited to participate in
On Sunday, January 1, Pope Francis observed the traditional World Day of Peace of the Roman Catholic Church, but the beginning of the new year at the Vatican was overshadowed by the death of his predecessor, Benedict XVI. Francis presided over a Mass in St. Peter's
Twitter was unavailable to tens of thousands of users worldwide on December 28 due to a significant outage, which lasted for several hours before services appeared to be restored. Since billionaire Elon Musk became CEO of Twitter in late October, the event marks the social media
In order to safeguard the environment, coiffeurs around Belgium are collecting and bagging their clients' cut hair, then donating it to a nongovernmental organization that recycles it. The Hair Recycle project feeds locks and tresses into a machine that converts them into squares of matted hair
UN News - The UN warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is still a cause for global concern, and outbreaks of cholera, Ebola and Monkeypox (now renamed mpox) led to the mobilization of health and aid workers to contain life-threatening illnesses. The UN warned that the
UN News - A hundred million people were forced to leave their homes in 2022. The UN continued to help those in need in a myriad of ways and push for more legal and safe ways for people to migrate. The 100 million figure, which includes
His Majesty King Charles III delivers his first Christmas and televised message since acceding to the throne in September 2022. The Christmas message tradition dates back to His Majesty’s Great-Grandfather King George V, who used the then relatively untried medium of radio to make his first
UN News - From extreme floods to heat and drought, weather and climate-related disasters have affected millions and cost billions this year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, describing the “tell-tale signs and impacts” of intensified climate change. The clear need to do much more to
