Models suggest deaths in poorer countries could be cut by 18% – or about 750,000 a year – with preventive measuresEvery year 750,000 deaths linked to drug-resistant superbugs could be prevented through better access to clean water and sanitation, infection control and childhood vaccinations, research suggests.Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, is a huge...

Second posthumous miracle attributed to leukaemia victim Carlo Acutis, qualifying him for canonisationA London-born teenager who died of leukaemia aged 15 is to become the Catholic church’s first millennial saint.Carlo Acutis was a computer prodigy who helped to spread Roman Catholic teaching online before his death in 2006. On Thursday, Pope Francis...

Mosby, who led prosecution of police over Freddie Gray death, sentenced to 12 months home confinementA former Baltimore city prosecutor who achieved a national profile for charging police officers in a Black man’s death was spared prison time in her sentence on Thursday for perjury and mortgage fraud.Former state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby’s sentence...

Couple in Bangkok say aim is to recover sufficiently to be fit to fly home in medical evacuation. Follow the day’s news live Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTaiwan interested in critical-minerals trade with AustraliaTaiwan’s representative to Australia, Douglas Hsu, spoke to ABC RN just earlier about China’s...

Northwestern president becomes lightning rod in Republican-led committee hearing also featuring chiefs of Rutgers and UCLAMembers of a Republican-led congressional committee confronted another set of university heads on Thursday over their approach to pro-Palestinian protests in the latest hearings on Capitol Hill on a reported upsurge of campus antisemitism.Republicans...

Ceiling of Medusa Beach Club on the seafront at Palma de Mallorca gave way, according to reportsAt least four people have been killed and about 21 people injured after a building collapsed on a beachfront in Mallorca on Thursday, emergency services said.The two-storey building, the Medusa Beach Club, collapsed in Palma de Mallorca. Continue reading...