Amid the pandemic from job losses to pay cuts, women have faced disproportionate costs to their livelihoods and health from the ongoing covid-19 crisis. Economic sectors dominated by women have been hit hardest due to the pandemic. The situation is no different for women in Iran. A recent report by the statistical center of Iran has put the country's unemployment rate at 9.6 percent which is an increase of 0.1 percent from last year's figures.

Women face disproportionate costs to their livelihoods due to COVID crisis

Scores of pinwheels are being pinned up in Sao Paulo to remember the nearly 600,000 Brazilians who died as a result of the pandemic. The memorial is a symbolic farewell to victims, made up of pinwheel walls in one of the city's main squares

Pinwheel walls: an opportunity to say goodbye to COVID-19 victims in Brazil

"Anyone recognise him?" the police in Winter Haven, Florida, asked on Facebook last month. Photos with the post showed a man walking out of a Walmart without paying for his items after several of his credit cards were declined, police said.

Diapers are the latest pandemic shortage

Air carriers' association IATA said on Monday that the global net aviation industry losses are expected to come in at $11.6 billion in 2022, down from $51.8 billion on a year-on-year basis.

Global airlines' net losses expected at $11.6 bn in 2022: IATA

A resurgence of global economic activity has lifted merchandise trade above its pre-pandemic peak, the World Trade Organization said on Monday as it upgraded its 2021 and 2022 trade forecasts.

WTO says goods trade surging past pre-pandemic level

New Zealand announced Sunday tighter border restrictions, as new cases of COVID-19 emerged in areas previously free of the coronavirus. "We are introducing the requirement for air travellers aged 17 and over, who are not New Zealand citizens, to be fully vaccinated to enter New Zealand," COVID-19 response minister Christ Hipkins said.

New Zealand tightens travel rules as Covid spreads

After his small Manhattan food stand lost its customers during the coronavirus pandemic, Abdul Rahman -- an Afghan vendor who arrived in New York in 1992 -- has resumed service, albeit at a fraction of former business since offices are still far from full.

New York's street vendors still waiting for pandemic recovery

Covid-19 vaccine pioneers, media watchdogs, climate activists and Belarus opposition leaders are just some of those tipped for Nobel glory when the latest prize recipients are announced from Monday against the background of the pandemic.

Nobel prize season returns under pandemic spotlight

Police fired tear gas and water cannons in Slovenia’s capital at thousands of protesters who opposed government's tough anti-coronavirus measures.

Solvenia: Water canon used on anti-jab protests | Coronavirus Pandemic

'Our shared experience of fighting the pandemic has taught us that we are stronger and better when we are together. We saw glimpses of collective spirit, when our covid-19 warriors, doctors, nurses gave their best in fighting the pandemic,' says Indian PM Narendra Modi.

COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that we are stronger when we are together: PM Narendra Modi

According to a study, plumbers, fitness trainers and insurance agents comprise professionals who do not need work experience to earn top dollars. The study by Interview Guys, a job interview and career website, found recreation and fitness trainers earned $66,290 as median annual income in the United States, followed by plumbers.

Find out the top paying jobs in US with no work experience

A new report by Australian National University has revealed that many parents are struggling to find support for their children. As a part of the study, the university surveyed 3,135 Australians age 18 and older in August.

Australian parents say mental health of their children is worsening in pandemic

US President Joe Biden used his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly to describe a world where American civic leadership, rather than military power, acts as the driving force to resolve persistent problems like coronavirus, climate change, and cyberwar. WION's Susan Tehrani brings you more on this.

WION-USA Direct: Pandemic and climate crisis are borderless says Joe Biden

US President Joe Biden hosted a virtual summit with world leaders on Wednesday, to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, a day after his address at the 76th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

US President Joe Biden hosts virtual COVID-19 summit on UNGA sidelines

US President Joe Biden is all set to host a virtual COVID-19 summit on Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The aim of the summit is to rally world leaders, health professionals, experts, NGOs with a singular message to end the pandemic by 2022.

Joe Biden to hold virtual COVID-19 summit, push for ending pandemic 'together'

Despite a century of medical advances, more Americans have now died from COVID-19 than the number who succumbed to the 1918 flu pandemic, according to new data. The latest grim milestone comes as the country is experiencing a fourth wave driven by the highly contagious Delta variant, with low vaccination uptake in many regions the main cause of death.

Pandemic claims more American lives than 1918 flu, data shows

Sonu Sood has finally broken his silence following Income Tax raids at his offices in Mumbai a few days ago. Sood gained godly status among the migrants last year during lockdown when he helped thousands to reach their homes.

Sonu Sood breaks his silence on IT raid controversy: Every rupee is awaiting its turn to reach the needy

The roughly 15% of the population living in rural America includes some of the oldest and sickest patients in the country — a disparity that has grown more stark during the coronavirus pandemic.

Biden administration seeks to expand telehealth in rural America

“I think I’ve come to believe that even if the COVID death toll was '10 times' what it currently is,” MSNBC host Chris Hayes wrote a few days ago on Twitter, “the politics of all of it wouldn’t be appreciably different.

What if COVID-19 were 10 times deadlier?

In last one-and-a-half years, coronavirus has hit the world hard. Be it the downturn in the economy or loss of precious lives to the disease, several people have been adversely affected by the spread of this dreadful ailment.

Why Covid may be a boon for world? 

Five months before the World Health Organization designated the virus a pandemic, American leaders were purportedly notified of a new coronavirus circulating in Wuhan.

Chinese defector tried to warn Trump about COVID-19 five months before pandemic 

Broadway`s biggest musicals roared back to life on Tuesday after an unprecedented 18-month, pandemic-induced shutdown that cast an eerie silence over New York`s usually bustling theater district.

Broadway raises curtain again on big musicals, and casts serenade the city

In an effort to combat the second wave of COVID-19 in the financial year 2020-21, India Inc has spent a huge sum of over Rs 16 billion, said a study conducted by CSR knowledge and impact intelligence portal CSRBOX.

To combat COVID-19's second wave, India Inc spent over Rs 16 billion

As some of the countries still fight to contain the spread of Delta variant, Denmark has decided to let go of all Covid curbs and return to pre-pandemic times. Denmark locals can now be seen enjoying outdoors without masks, people in offices are seen logging on without any worry of catching Covid and concerts are attracting thousands of people to come enjoy in pre-Covid style.

'Back to live': Denmark lifts all Covid curbs a day before Europe's biggest post-pandemic concert

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