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By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Aug 31, 2025 / 07:10 am Pope Leo XIV on Sunday prayed for the victims of a shooting at a Catholic church in Minneapolis and deplored a worldwide “pandemic of arms” that has left many children dead or injured. “Our prayers for the victims of the tragic shooting during a school Mass in the American …

For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — the world’s first recorded pandemic — in the Eastern Mediterranean, where the outbreak was first described nearly 1,500 years ago. The landmark discovery, led by an interdisciplinary team at the University of South Florida and Florida Atlantic University, with collaborators in …

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday called for an end to the “pandemic of arms, large and small,” as he prayed publicly for the victims of a shooting during a Catholic school Mass in the United States. History’s first U.S. pope spoke in English as he denounced the attack and the “logic of weapons” fueling wars around …

Pope Leo XIV called for the “pandemic of arms, large and small” to end during a weekly public prayer with crowds in St Peter’s Square on Sunday that also addressed the plague of mass shootings in the US. The first US pope in history, a native of Chicago, spoke in English as he prayed for the victims of last week’s …

By many measures, the coronavirus is a thing of the past. Masks have been stored away. Social distancing is just a vague memory. Interest in vaccines is waning. COVID, for many, feels like an inevitable annoyance, like the flu. Then, each summer, we get a rude reminder. The season of travel and fun continues to bring a spike in COVID-19 …

The soaring number of young people who have engaged in carjacking is indeed one of the key factors that has driven the surge in the Washington area and beyond, according to interviews with more than a half-dozen police officials, criminologists and youth advocates. Some of these perpetrators stole vehicles to use them to commit more crimes. Many others commit carjackings …

In what sounds like the plot from a sci-fi movie, scientists have isolated an incredibly rare immune mutation to create a universal antiviral treatment. Only present in a few dozen people worldwide, ISG15 immunodeficiency causes people to be more susceptible to certain bacterial illnesses, but it also grants the people with this condition immunity to known viruses. Researchers think that …

An Australian court has fined airline giant Qantas A$90m (£43m; $59m) for illegally sacking some 1,700 ground workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Australia’s Transport Workers’ Union said it welcomed the ruling, which it said marked the largest employer penalty in the country’s history. Federal Court Justice Michael Lee said in the judgement that he wanted the fine to act as …

Authorities in China are using nets, insecticide and drones to fight the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus which has infected thousands of people. There were more than 7,000 cases of the virus recorded by officials as of Wednesday (August 13). These were mostly in the southern Chinese manufacturing hub of Foshan, which is about 105 miles (170km) from Hong Kong. The number …