Military planes,stopovers,Chinese support away from Asia... an island at the bottom of South America is back in the headlines.
A few weeks ago COVID was ravaging the continent. Now new infections have fallen in nearly every nation as vaccination rates have ramped up.
The Brazilian scientists were sceptical. They ran different models to check calculations,but they all returned the same startling result.
One study showed that losing the ability to smell,which has been commonly reported among COVID-19 patients,is correlated with cognitive troubles.
Rising food prices are a global problem and a worrying trend that threatens economic stability,say experts.
Argentine President Alberto Fernández says he had an initial positive test for COVID-19,despite having been vaccinated in January.
Argentina’s health minister,Ginés González García,has resigned at the request of the president over revelations that people with close ties to the government were given early access to COVID-19 vaccines.
Legalisation was a striking rebuke of Pope Francis,who on the eve of the vote had praised a women's group for its activism against abortion.
Los Angeles,now the epicentre of America's COVID-19 battle,tests for new coronavirus strain as Japan bans foreigners and Argentina starts vaccinating.
Argentina would become only the fourth nation — and by far the most populous — to make abortion legal in Latin America if its Senate ratifies the lower-house vote.
It is the second raid in the probe that is looking at the soccer star's death last week.