Four Central Asian countries have stepped up health checks amid concerns the incident could lead to the spread of pneumonic plague, although the World Health Organization has downplayed the public health risk.

Chaos erupts across France as student-led demonstrations turn violent. Thomas Corbett-Dillon warns that the protests have been hijacked by far-left groups amid nationwide clashes with police over education funding.

High school students have been protesting across France over school understaffing, overcrowded classrooms and dilapidated buildings. The demonstration movement began last month in a single school in the suburbs of Paris,

Protesting pupils blockaded their high schools again Tuesday, a day of planned demonstrations that will test the resilience and energy of a weeks-old nationwide movement demanding more resources for the school system.

Francis Halzen has won the Nobel Prize in physics for his work on neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that offer clues to the universe’s evolution

Belgium-born scientist Francis Halzen awarded prize for pioneering work on how to detect neutrinos in a giant ice cube

The 82-year-old scientist, originally from Belgium, is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research into capturing neutrinos at the South Pole dates back to the 1980s.

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States for neutrino research, the Nobel Committee for Physics and the Royal

As it has consistently since 2014, the right outperformed its final polls in the vote, with Mr. Bolsonaro winning 47 percent to Mr. Lula’s 45 percent, and Mr. Bolsonaro’s allies winning a majority of seats in the Senate.

Yet just as Trump defied the odds to become US president for a second term, so the Bolsonaro family has a strong chance of making its own remarkable comeback. Flávio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of the far-right former leader,

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro head to a runoff vote in Brazil’s presidential election.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will spend Monday trying to shake-up his campaign after losing the first round of national elections to Flávio Bolsonaro

Russian authorities have sought to allay global worries over the death of a young woman who worked at a Siberian anti-plague laboratory. But moves to isolate her contacts and introduce new disease-control measures at local hospitals have raised concerns among people who fear they’re not being told the full story.

SHELEKHOV, Russia ― Russia's health watchdog said on Tuesday that no cases of plague had been detected among anyone who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died last week,

Trump offered to help Russia combat pneumonic plague after the death of a lab worker in Siberia.

The World Health Organization says that a possible case of pneumonic plague in Russia poses a “very low” risk outside the country