Tokyo 2020 chief visits LGBTQ centre to emphasise diversity
Tokyo 2020 chief Seiko Hashimoto visits Japan's first permanent LGBTQ centre on Tuesday to emphasise diversity
Medical supplies flow into India as COVID-19 deaths near 200,000
India's new coronavirus infections hit a record peak as countries including Britain, Germany and the United States pledged to send urgent medical aid
From coal and steel to carbon-free and digital: the EU reaches turning point
Will money to deal with the economic shock from the pandemic also put EU countries on a path to cutting emissions to net-zero by 2050 to slow climate change?
$15 trillion global hydrogen investment needed to 2050 - research
Green hydrogen, made by using renewable energy to power electrolysers to convert water, is being backed by many governments for vehicles and energy plants but is costly
'No voice': Child brides left out of India's domestic violence data
Child brides were excluded from India's latest domestic violence survey, despite early marriage heightening the risk of spousal abuse
Carbon emissions are more than countries are reporting - study
Independent models show emissions are about 5.5 billion tonnes of CO2 per year higher than countries are reporting, partly due to overestimates of carbon-absorbing forest land
India asks Twitter to take down some tweets critical of its COVID-19 handling
Twitter has withheld some of the tweets, including some by local lawmakers, that were critical of India's handling of the coronavirus outbreak
Disruptions to immunisation put millions of children at risk -U.N.
More than 60 mass immunisation campaigns were disrupted, putting around 228 million people, mostly children, at risk from preventable serious diseases, WHO survey shows
Humiliated in Ankara, EU chief to fight for women's rights
EU's first female chief executive Ursula von der Leyen pledges to fight for women's rights after she has been denied a chair in a meeting in Ankara
U.S. moves to reverse Trump on California vehicle-emission rules
A total of 13 states have adopted California's vehicle-emission rules, and several others are in the process of joining