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Though the days are brighter and longer, summer can be a dark time for many people. Photograph: iStock
We have arrived at riskiest time of year for suicide

With the arrival of brighter, longer days we have also arrived at the riskiest time of year for suicide. Nobody is quite sure why this should be. The (...)

Protest against President Bolsonaro’s handling of the pandemic. Photograph: MIchael Dantas/AFP via Getty Images
Latin America still suffering crushing Covid-19 mortality and social upheaval

In a week which saw Brazil set a new record for daily infections of Covid-19, the country’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, stepped up his campai(...)

Taoiseach Micheál Martin announcing further restrictions to curb the spread of Covid-19 last week. Photograph: Julien Behal
Ireland had world’s highest Covid-19 infection rate last week

Ireland has the highest Covid-19 infection rate in the world after more than 45,700 cases were recorded in the State last week. The disease spread fa(...)

A Pfizer facility for storing its Covid-19 vaccine in Belgium. Photograph: Pfizer/AP
Think a vaccine will nuke Covid? Check out analysts forecasts for Pfizer up to 2030

The last Democrat in the Oval Office was no friend of Pfizer. Barack Obama’s move in the twilight days of his administration in 2016 to clamp down on (...)

A sign reading ‘Face masks mandatory inside the pedestrian zone’ in Delmenhorst, northern Germany, a town which has become a recent Covid-19 hotspot. Photograph: Focke Strangmann/EPA.
Coronavirus: Germany and Spain report record daily cases
  • World
  • October 22, 2020, 08:56

Germany and Italy reported another record gain in coronavirus infections, as France and Spain became the first countries in Western Europe to pass one(...)

Gal Gadot, who played Wonder Woman and has now been cast as Cleopatra, attending the 90th Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood in 2018. Photogaph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images
Walking sort of like an Egyptian may not be enough any more

What did Patty Jenkins think would happen when news emerged that she was to direct Gal Gadot as Cleopatra in a big-budget epic for Paramount? How did (...)

Parents wait as students wearing masks and face shields leave after attending classes during the first day of reopening of public high schools following closure due to the coronavirus in Yangon on Tuesday. Photograph: Sai Aung Main/AFP
Coronavirus: Australia reports record number of cases as global infections near 15m
  • World
  • July 22, 2020, 07:04

More than 14.9 million cases of coronavirus have been recorded worldwide with more than 617,250 deaths, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkin(...)

Walt Disney World Florida reopens amid a surge in coronavirus cases on Saturday, July 11th. Photograph: John Raoux/AP.
Coronavirus: Cases surge in southern US states as Italy and Germany hold steady
  • World
  • July 12, 2020, 10:49

US coronavirus cases rose 2.3 per cent on Saturday with a record 71,389 new infections, exceeding the 1.9 per cent average daily increase of the previ(...)

A teacher measures the temperature of a pupil before school starts in Pretoria, South Africa. Photograph: Christiaan Kotze / AFP via Getty
Africa’s coronavirus cases top 200,000

Africa topped 200,000 confirmed coronavirus cases on Wednesday, less than three weeks after the continent passed the 100,000 mark, on May 22nd. South(...)

Dr Tony Holohan, chief medical officer, Department of Health. Photograph: Colin Keegan / Collins
Coronavirus: Ireland has higher per capita death ratio than US, study finds

The Republic currently has the 22nd highest number of deaths from coronavirus in the world and a higher per capita death ratio and case fatality ratio(...)

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