It was “outrageous” to see a man carry the flag inside the Capitol, something not even Confederate soldiers were able to do during the Civil War, historians said.

In Seoul, Beijing and elsewhere, temperatures neared or exceeded record lows this week.

A South African tip led to the discovery of mutations around the world. With infections skyrocketing, “it’s a race against time.”

Bobi Wine, Uganda’s leading opposition figure, was pulled from his car by the police on Thursday. He has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court accusing the country’s president of authorizing a campaign of violence against opposition politicians and their supporters ahead of next week’s general election.

A large study of patients from a Wuhan, China hospital showed that a half-year later, three-quarters were struggling with problems like fatigue, depression and diminished lung function.

It’s good news, but experts cautioned that the new variants from Britain and South Africa also carry other potentially dangerous mutations that have not yet been investigated.

The coronavirus, a force of death and destruction, is also pushing artists and musicians to be more creative.

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, announced on Friday that it has secured additional doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, enough vaccines to inoculate 80 percent of the bloc’s population.

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