The coronavirus pandemic is still far from over, the World Health Organization says, claiming that "the worst is yet to come".

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has marked an official end to the second deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, which killed 2,280 people over nearly two years.

Pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturer Bayer is to pay $10.9 billion to settle cancer claims linked to its Roundup weedkiller.

Researchers in Barcelona say they have detected the coronavirus in a stored wastewater sample that was collected in the city in March 2019 – nine months before the outbreak was first reported in China.

The world's fastest supercomputer, a Japanese machine that can perform more than 415 quadrillion computations a second, is being used to search for a treatment for the coronavirus.