The "brave women of Belarus," led by opposition figures Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Maryya Kalesnikava and Veranika Tsapkala have been nominated in the European Parliament for this year’s Sakharov Prize

The coronavirus vaccine candidate developed by the researchers of Oxford University has shown extremely encouraging results in its early trials and with this, the team at Jenner Institute has taken one more step closer to find a vaccine for COVID-19

Michele Rubirola pledges to clean up Mediterranean port city, which has suffered from pollution, municipal strikes, violence and poverty

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike scored a landslide victory in an election for a second term, as the city tries to keep a fresh surge of Covid-19 in check and maintain hopes of hosting the Olympics in 2021

The NASA official who managed the inaugural private crewed flight into space last month has been promoted to become the first female head of human spaceflight, the agency said, as it prepares to return people to the Moon in 2024

Ms. Jones is also the first woman to lead the Missouri city, which erupted in protests in 2014 after a white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, a black teenager

Jacinda Ardern became New Zealand’s most popular prime minister in a century, a Newshub-Reid Research poll showed on Monday, thanks to her COVID-19 response that made the country among the most successful in curbing the spread of the disease

Today is an anniversary of Ann Snitow's birthday. Ann was born on the 8th of May, 1943 in New York and died last year on the 10th of August

Prime minister Jacinda Ardern said the nation had “won the battle” against widespread community transmission