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The Madrid-based organization said in its quarterly World Tourism Barometer that over 1.1 billion people made international trips in the first nine months of the year, around 5 percent more than in the same period of 2024.

Saia Ma'u Piukala, the WHO regional director for the Western Pacific, said in a statement released Tuesday that the discovery of antimicrobials almost a century ago changed the course of modern medicine.

The average global surface air temperature in October was 15.14 degrees Celsius, 0.70 degrees above the 1991-2020 average and 1.55 degrees above the pre-industrial level (1850-1900). It was 0.16 degrees cooler than the record October in 2023 and 0.11 degrees cooler than October 2024, the data showed...

Preliminary police investigation showed the crash was a lone incident "caused by a loss of control by the tanker driver," Sa'adu said, adding that many victims sustained severe burns.

As part of the observance, all liquor outlets across Sri Lanka remain closed on Friday.

According to the report Estimating Trauma Rehabilitation Needs in Gaza, September 2025 Update, life-changing injuries account for one quarter of all reported cases, out of a total of 167,376 people injured since October 2023.

Over 40 percent of American workers have seen their real incomes decline over the past year, according to a labor market report released Thursday by the employment website Indeed.   

Electric vehicles (EVs) accounted for more than 60 percent of Denmark's new car sales in May, reflecting strong consumer interest in green mobility despite growing uncertainty about future car taxation, according to data released by Mobility Denmark on Sunday.  

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday threatened a 50 percent tax on all imports from the European Union as well a 25 percent tariff on Apple products unless iPhones are made in the United States.

Despite the threat of explosives in Syria, UN humanitarians said on Friday that while 670,000 people have been displaced since November, more than 1 million others have returned home.