The International Monetary Fund has predicted a decline in global inflation to 4.2 per cent in 2025, as the world recovers from the economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.

Global tourism fully recovered from the Covid-19 pandemic in 2024 with 1.4 billion international tourist arrivals recorded worldwide due to 'robust' demand from key markets, UN Tourism said Monday. 'A majority of destinations welcomed more international tourists in 2024 than they did before the pandemic,

The International Monetary Fund expects the world economy to grow a little faster and inflation to keep falling this year.

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, began in late 2019 in Wuhan, China. The first case of the virus was identified in December 2019 and was linked to a seafood market in ...

Austin retired from the Army in 2016 only to be asked to return to the Pentagon by President Joe Biden in 2021, making history as the nation's first Black defense secretary.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he expects to put 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting on Feb. 1, while declining to flesh out his plans for taxing Chinese imports.

The plans come in response to the first set of recommendations made by the Covid-19 Inquiry - the ongoing public inquiry into the handling of the pandemic. The chair of the inquiry, Baroness ...

Ukraine is far from the only country affected by this issue: around 1.4 million people globally died of a AMR infection in 2021, and in the UK there were 66,730 serious antibiotic-resistant infections in 2023. However, war appears to have accelerated the spread of multi-resistant pathogens in Ukraine.

With the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic fading even as the coronavirus persists and evolves, a new normal is taking shape around the world. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the F.D.A. to ...

It is contagious in humans and is the cause of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). SARS-CoV-2 Omicron lineage BA.2.86 has over 30 mutations compared to the parental BA.2 lineage. Here Bdeir ...

About half of TikTok users (52%) – equivalent to 17% of all U.S. adults – say they regularly get news on the site. But many TikTok users appear not to be actively following journalists or news media outlets on the site. Fresh data delivered Saturday ...

The central bank has the power to maintain stable prices, and there is more to the President-elect’s economic policy than tariffs.