Maria Van Kerkhove, a top World Health Organization official on COVID-19, speaks at a news conference in July. Fabrice Coffrini/POOL/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Fabrice Coffrini/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Maria Van Kerkhove, a top World Health Organization official on COVID-19, speaks at a news conference in July.Continue Reading

An exhausted Rohingya refugee woman touches the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh, on Sept. 11, 2017. Danish Siddiqui/Reuters hide caption toggle caption Danish Siddiqui/Reuters An exhausted Rohingya refugee woman touches the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar borderContinue Reading

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper testifies during a House Armed Services Committee hearing in July 2020, in Washington, D.C. Greg Nash/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Greg Nash/Getty Images Secretary of Defense Mark Esper testifies during a House Armed Services Committee hearing in July 2020, in Washington, D.C. Greg Nash/GettyContinue Reading

People step off a tram in Nottingham, England, a city where a case of the omicron variant of the coronavirus was identified last week. Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Giddens/PA Images via Getty Images People step off a tram in Nottingham, England, a cityContinue Reading

Migrants stay in a tent camp near the Bruzgi checkpoint on the Polish border, on Wednesday. Leonid Shcheglov/Leonid Shcheglov/BelTA/TASS hide caption toggle caption Leonid Shcheglov/Leonid Shcheglov/BelTA/TASS Migrants stay in a tent camp near the Bruzgi checkpoint on the Polish border, on Wednesday. Leonid Shcheglov/Leonid Shcheglov/BelTA/TASS A standoff between migrants andContinue Reading

The International Space Station shown in orbit in 2011. Astronauts aboard the station were ordered to briefly take shelter after Russia conducted an orbital test of an anti-satellite missile that spewed potentially dangerous debris into orbit. NASA/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption NASA/Getty Images The International Space Station shown inContinue Reading

An Austrian police officer checks a driver’s vaccination certificate during a traffic control stop in Graz, Austria, on Monday. Erwin Scheriau/APA/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Erwin Scheriau/APA/AFP via Getty Images An Austrian police officer checks a driver’s vaccination certificate during a traffic control stop in Graz, Austria,Continue Reading

Vaccine mandate protestors perform a haka last week in Wellington, New Zealand. Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images Vaccine mandate protestors perform a haka last week in Wellington, New Zealand. Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images A New Zealand Māori tribe has demanded that anti-vaccine mandate advocates stop usingContinue Reading

Stella Moris, fiancée of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, arrives at the High Court of England and Wales, in London, last month. Guy Smallman/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Guy Smallman/Getty Images Stella Moris, fiancée of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, arrives at the High Court of England and Wales, in London,Continue Reading