The World Health Organisation has said the public health risk linked to the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius remains low as the vessel heads toward Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands.

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On Friday, World Health Organization member states announced they had extended talks on pathogen-sharing rules, raising uncertainty about when the pandemic treaty adopted last year will take effect.

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.