January has already become the worst month for US Covid-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

A Taiwanese man has been fined $1 million New Taiwan Dollars ($35,000) for repeatedly breaking his home quarantine.

A team of World Health Organization investigators is preparing to leave quarantine in the Chinese city of Wuhan and begin a long-awaited investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

“The contract with the UK was signed first and the UK.... said ‘you supply us first,’ and this is fair enough." AstraZeneca’s CEO has defended the decision to prioritize vaccine deliveries to the UK, after the EU voiced frustration over delivery delays.

"The United States' determination that China is committing genocide in Xinjiang presents a rare moral predicament for athletes and countries preparing to compete in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing." Analysis by @Ben_Westcott 

US President Biden held his first call Tuesday with his Russian counterpart, confronting President Vladimir Putin over a range of issues from a recent massive cyberattack to the suspected poisoning of the country's leading opposition figure.

Apple is urging iPhone and iPad users to promptly update their operating systems to fix security bugs that may have already been exploited by hackers.

The only surviving prototype of this unusual plane now sits dilapidated in a field near Moscow, but it was once the hope of the Soviet Union against US submarine attacks.