World champions Argentina firmly held onto their world No. 1 position at the end of 2023, as FIFA announced the year-ending men's world rankings.Argentina regained top spot in April and have held the lead since then, despite the other nine placings in the...

Loneliness is a pressing health threat, with serious consequences for the health and mental well-being of the elderly and young people worldwide, said the World Health Organisation (WHO) on friday.Social isolation having an insufficient number of social connections,...

The World Health Organization (WHO) said that as the raging Israel-Hamas conflict has completed a month since it erupted on October 7, more than 10,000 people, or some 0.5 per cent of the total population in the besieged enclave, have reportedly been killed,...

Football's world governing body FIFA held the draw for the 2023 Under-20 World Cup with the hosts Argentina kicking off the tournament against Uzbekistan on May 20.The ceremony was held at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland and FIFA confirmed the match...

Around 17.5 per cent of the adult population roughly 1 in 6 worldwide experience infertility in their lifetime, according to a new report published on Tuesday by the World Health Organization (WHO).The report shows limited variation in the prevalence of infertility...

Football's global governing body FIFA has announced that it has filed an appeal before the Swiss Federal Tribunal against the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to overturn the ban on Yves Jean-Bart, the former president of Haitian Football Federation."After...

Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe and Karim Benzema have been named as the finalists for The FIFA Best Men's Football Player Award in 2022, soccer's world governing body FIFA announced on Friday.Messi captained Argentina to lift the FIFA World Cup trophy in Qatar...

The WHO has said that the Covid-19 pandemic still constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), the WHO's highest alert level. The announcement came amid the recent increase of weekly reported deaths worldwide. After its quarterly...

The timetable for athletics events at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was published by the sport's world governing body on Monday.According to the timetable, 48 events will be spread over 11 competition days, starting with the men's and women's 20km race walk...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned again against complacency in fighting Covid-19, urging for coordinated action and political commitments to save lives and prevent economic and health damage from the ongoing pandemic."(Covid-19) pandemic is...

The number of newly reported monkeypox cases has decreased worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).In the week from August 15-21, there were 21 per cent fewer cases than in the previous week, dpa news agency quoted the global health body...

Monkeypox cases have seen an exponential jump of 20 per cent in the last week with more than 35,000 infections and 12 deaths reported from 92 countries, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)."Almost 7,500 cases were reported last week, a 20 per cent...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced new names for variants of the monkeypox virus that are currently in circulation. This is to avoid causing any cultural or social offence, the WHO said in a statement.A group of global experts convened by...

Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that Europe and the Americas have been the hardest hit by the global monkeypox outbreak.Addressing reporters here, the WHO chief said these two regions have reported 95 per...

About 35 countries have reported 1,010 probable cases of severe acute hepatitis in children, while 22 kids have died from the disease with no cause identified yet, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.Since the previous WHO update on June...

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is "nowhere near over" as the number of new cases worldwide has risen by 30 per cent in the last two weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said."I am concerned that cases of Covid-19 continue to rise putting further...

Unlike other Covid variants, Omicron appears to be able to evade the antibodies generated by all other variants, according to a study.A team from the Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases of the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and of the Geneva University Hospital...

Testing continues to be a challenge for the monkeypox virus that has infected more than 6,000 people in 58 countries, both endemic and non-endemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.Low testing means that cases go undetected, further increasing the risk...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday said that 5,322 laboratory-confirmed cases of monkeypox had been reported to it from 53 countries both endemic and non-endemic."From January 1 to June 30 this year, we have 5,322 laboratory-confirmed cases and...

Following is the text of the Intervention made by Union Minister of  Commerce & Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles, Piyush Goyal on Fisheries Subsidies Negotiations during the 12th Ministerial Conference of the WTO in...