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UNICEF/UN0399562/FilippovA team of psychologists and social workers are supporting vulnerable teenagers across eastern Ukraine as lockdown takes its toll...

As we approach the one-year anniversary of the pandemic, UNICEF urges greater investment in mental health services

Why England’s inhumane sex ban must now end The lack of attention paid to relationships suggests a peculiarly British unwillingness to consider human sexuality.  Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Members of the public walk past a new mural of a mask wearing couple kissing on March 21, 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. When Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott wrote the play No Sex Please, We’re British in 1971, they probably didn’t expect it to become unofficial government poli...

Plus: Data shows UK lockdown one of world's strictest, Britain ready for summer of sport & first audio recorded on Mars

University of Oxford finds only two countries had more stringent lockdowns than the UK

GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2020 remained surprisingly strong despite a second wave of the coronavirus. Eurozone GDP fell by just -0.7%, while Germany, Belgium and Spain even posted positive growth rates. The smaller drop in GDP compared to the first wave is related to a variety of factors. The rest of the world was more open in the secon

Illustration by Natalie Vineberg, Updated 10:54, Feb. 17, 2021 | Published 12:00, Feb. 15, 2021 As the copy editor of this general-interest magazine, I’ve read a lot of nonfiction about life under lockdown. One writer prophesied the death of the shopping mall. Another noted the improved air quality. Others have navigated the interpersonal novelties of lockdown remote working, lockdown co-living, lockdown dating, and lockdown parenting. But, when each of them used that word, what did ...

COVID and other diseases: An Animal Farm perspective Print edition : February 26, 2021 T+ T- At a TB hospital in Guwahati, a file picture. The COVID-19 pandemic may have had serious negative effects on both the tracking and the true incidence of TB cases. Photo: AP The global burdens of COVID and the global benefits of anti-COVID policy have been skewed against the poorer nations of the world, and within nations, against the poor and the vulnerable. It is no exaggeration to observe that the ...

Eurozone meltdown: Record slump sparks panic as France and Italy hit by huge blow Ciaran McGrath Replay Video UP NEXT And separate figures have indicated the total unemployment rate within the 19 countries which are members of the monetary union remains at 8.3 percent. The figures, published by Eurostat, which provides statistical information to the institutions of the European Union, reveals the eurozone economy suffered a 0.7 percent GDP contraction in the final quarter (Q4) ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A graph generated by the dashboard shows COVID-19 daily cases per million people. Cases are much higher in the U.S. and Sweden compared to Norway, Japan, New Zealand, and South... view more  Credit: Credit: Alexej Jerschow/NYU A new online dashboard, created by NYU Professor Alexej Jerschow, brings together COVID-19 data from U.S. states and countries around the world to compare cases, deaths, vaccines, and testing in a visual, user-friendly format. The tool also integ...