Opened insulin can be stored for four weeks in warm conditions without losing efficacy, a study showed Wednesday, giving hope to diabetics in hot countries without access to refrigerators.

Thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils defied bans to stage protests as the Sinhala-majority government celebrated its independence day with a military parade.

A 22-year-old man from New Jersey who suffered horrific injuries in a car accident has become the world’s first person to undergo a successful face and double hand transplant, his medical team announced Wednesday.

Clanging cymbals and banging pots, Yangon residents unhappy with a putsch that ousted Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi have begun kicking up a nightly fracas to chase out “evil spirits” -- in this case, the military.

The United States is “deeply disturbed” by reports of systematic rape and sexual abuse against women in internment camps for ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims in China’s Xinjiang region and there must be serious consequences for atrocities committed there, the US State Department said on Wednesday.

Israeli forces on Wednesday demolished the “illegal” homes of some 60 Palestinian Bedouins in the occupied West Bank’s Jordan Valley, an AFP journalist and activists said.

Canada, Britain and the United States have expressed alarm after Ottawa revealed authorities in Hong Kong forced a dual citizen to choose one nationality, enforcing what they said was a little-used regulation for the first time in decades.

The outcry grew in Russia over the crackdown on peaceful protesters yesterday as EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell was set to visit the country under pressure to confront Moscow over the imprisonment of opposition figure Alexei Navalny.

Governments and developers around the world are exploring the potential use of “vaccine passports” as a way of reopening the economy by identifying those protected against the coronavirus.

Germany’s financial watchdog Bafin has ordered Goldman Sachs to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing.

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered a review of asylum processing at the US-Mexico border and the immigration system as he seeks to undo some of former President Donald Trump’s hardline policies.

At least 71 homes have been destroyed in a bushfire raging out of control near Australia’s fourth-biggest city Perth, authorities said yesterday, as they told residents to ignore a coronavirus lockdown and leave threatened areas.

India has written to Twitter warning it to comply with orders to block accounts and content related to a protest by farmers, a technology ministry source said yesterday.

An Afghan judge was shot dead in an ambush in the eastern city of Jalalabad yesterday, police said, the third court official killed in less than a month.

A new tuberculosis treatment that slashes costs and the pill burden for patients will be rolled out in five high-incidence countries this year, international medical research body the Aurum Institute said yesterday.

Myanmar’s new leader said the military government installed after Monday’s coup plans an investigation into alleged fraud in last year’s elections and will also prioritize the COVID-19 outbreak and the economy, a state newspaper reported yesterday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has banned three pro-Russian television channels in a move the presidency said was aimed to stave off Kremlin propaganda.

More than 10,000 people were detained at recent rallies in Russia in support of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny with many subjected to mistreatment in police custody, monitors said yesterday.

A second Chinese lawyer involved in defending a Hong Kong democracy activist charged with illegally leaving the territory said Tuesday he had lost his license.

President Hassan Rouhani yesterday ruled out changes to Iran’s nuclear accord with world powers and dismissed calls to broaden the terms of the deal and include regional countries.