The average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline in the United States fell nearly two cents Saturday to $4.14, according to data from AAA. It was the biggest one-day drop since December 2023.

Nine Indian police officers have been sentenced to death for the 2020 torture and murder of a father and son detained over a minor lockdown violation. A judge condemned the "merciless" assault as a deliberate abuse of power intended to kill, delivering a landmark verdict in a case that sparked nationwide protests against police brutality.

U.S. traffic deaths last year fell to the lowest number since 2019 after a sharp rise in road fatalities during the COVID pandemic.

France’s ageing population is set to push public spending to pandemic-era levels in the coming decades, the Cour des Comptes warned on Tuesday. By 2070, nearly one in three French citizens will be over 65, while the working-age population is projected to shrink by more than 3 million.

An Australian court has ordered Qantas to pay A$90m (£43m; $59m) for illegally dismissing more than 1,800 ground staff during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Russian authorities confirmed on Wednesday that passenger rail service between Pyongyang and Moscow resumed on Tuesday following a five-year halt caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The UN health agency on Tuesday adopted a landmark Pandemic Agreement on tackling future health crises, struck after more than three years of negotiations sparked by the Covid-19 crisis.

China on Wednesday accused the United States of showing “indifference and delayed actions” in the global response to COVID-19, while alleging Washington scapegoated Beijing to divert attention from its own mismanagement of the pandemic.

The White House on Friday launched a revamped COVID-19 website that highlights the controversial theory suggesting the virus originated from a laboratory leak in China, presenting it as the potential “true origins” of the pandemic.

World food commodity prices decreased by 2.1% in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to the FAO, but they remain significantly higher than before the Covid-19 pandemic.