The Biden administration faces not only waves of Chinese antisatellite weapons but a history of jumbled responses to the intensifying threat.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador has scoffed at precautions to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Now he has it.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said New York State would soon run out of vaccines, though more doses would arrive soon. The C.D.C. has quietly changed its immunization guidelines. Pfizer is selling 40 million doses to poorer countries.

Portugal once stood out in Europe for having no real far-right presence in politics. Those days appear over.

At least 11 miners who were trapped 2,000 feet below ground in the blast have been rescued. Others are still missing.

Late February Pfizer vaccine rollout planned. Meanwhile, South Australian authorities warn residents as bushfires erupt in Adelaide Hills. Follow all the latest updates, live • NSW hotspots; Queensland hotspots• State-by-state restrictions and lockdown rules explained • Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for Australian rollout• Follow the global coronavirus liveblog 2.13am GMT Thanks Calla, another stellar job […]

The first community case for two months is a reminder that our freedom to go to the office is something to be appreciatedA chap working in the prime minister’s department mentions in passing that he’s on holiday in Golden Bay, that amazing republic of long, empty beaches lapped by the Tasman ocean, at the top […]

Since 2019, Lucienne Rickard has been drawing detailed sketches of lost species in a Hobart gallery. On Sunday she erased the final oneThe Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart is filled with people waiting for the swift parrot to disappear.Hobart artist Lucienne Rickard has spent five weeks drawing a large-scale pencil sketch of the […]

Benjamin Netanyahu says ‘we are hermetically sealing the country’; US ban hits UK, Ireland, South Africa, Brazil and 26 European countries; Mexico president tests positive for coronavirusFauci says he was the ‘skunk at the picnic’ in Trump’s Covid teamJohnson being urged to impose blanket Covid border controlsVaccine experts call for clarity on UK’s 12-week Covid […]

Police in Amsterdam used water cannon to disperse protesters demonstrating against Covid-19 restrictions while in the southern city of Eindhoven cars were burnt and shops smashed in riots against the country's lock-down measures. Riot police on horseback attempted to clear the demonstrators in both cities where hundreds of people were arrested. A nighttime curfew went into […]

The jailed opposition leader is creating a model of guerrilla political warfare for the digital age.

The most glaring artistic error in “Soul” is its misprision—its elision, really—of what soul means for black culture.

“Only three per cent of the Earth’s water is drinkable.” What per cent of the Earth’s Diet Coke is drinkable, though?

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