With a rising tide of Covid-19 patients threatening to overwhelm hospitals, public health officials across the United States are reaching for a safety valve that the Northeast used in the spring: borrowing beds in children’s hospitals to care for adults.

Around the world, flouting coronavirus regulations can have expensive consequences.

The world’s first authorized Covid-19 vaccines.

In a world where life changed seemingly overnight, photographers transformed how they worked, trading intimacy for distance. This is what they captured.

The Silicon Valley company said hackers — almost certainly Russian — made off with tools that could be used to mount new attacks around the world.

Dr. Chris Hingston was one of the first health care workers in Britain to receive a vaccination. He hopes that widespread use of the shots means that “life will change back to some normality.”

In recent decades, Mr. Scott directed and raised funds for Community Action Nepal, a charity he founded to improve the lives of people in Nepal.

Editors of the Literary Review, which has given the award for almost 30 years, said the public had been “subjected to too many bad things this year to justify exposing it to bad sex as well.”

Britain’s National Health Service administered the first shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday, making Britons the first people in the world to begin receiving inoculations after regulators approved its use the previous week.