A bipartisan coalition of United States (US) state attorneys general said on Thursday it has opened a probe into Facebook, now known as Meta Platforms, for promoting its subsidiary Instagram to children despite potential harms.The investigation, involving at least nine states, comes at a time when Facebook is under scrutiny over its approach to children and young adults.The attorneys general are investigating whether the company violated consumer protection laws and put young people at risk,

Two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine are “highly effective” at preventing hospitalisations for at least six months, a large-scale study shows, but protection against infection nearly halves over the same period.Effectiveness against all COVID infections fell from 88 percent within a month of having two doses to 47 percent after six months, according to the research.

As many as one in three people infected with COVID-19 have longer term mental health or neurological symptoms, researchers reported Tuesday.They found 34 percent of COVID-19 survivors received a diagnosis for a neurological or psychological condition within six months of their infection, according to the study published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry.The most common diagnosis was anxiety, found in 17 percent of those treated for COVID-19, followed by mood disorders, found in 14 per

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated a wide range of inequalities. If leaders are serious about “building back better,” policies to overcome the systemic forces that underlie them must form the heart of their agendas.One such divide is the gender gap.

Social media usage is one of the most popular online activities. Like millions of people around the world, the first thing I do when I wake up is to scroll on Twitter. That’s how I get my news, information and celebrities’ “teas”. For some, it’s perhaps some other social network such as Instagram, Pinterest, or Facebook.

There have been historic gains overall for children around the world in the past few years as “more and more are living longer, better and healthier lives,” said Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) last year.A UNICEF 2019 report in conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) cited some of the progress in child rights over the last three decades such as the decrease in the under-five mortality rate

A recent index by Kisi, a cloud-based security developer titled, “Cities With the Best Work-Life Balance 2020,” ranks cities from around the world which offer the best work-life balance to their people by comparing data on work intensity, legislation and liveability.The index assesses each city’s overall work-life score based on measures such as the amount of time a person dedicates to their job including total working hours, percentage of the overworked population, commuting times a

Locked up all day in a tiny, squalid hut with barely enough space to lie down, Rauf is a prisoner to his mental health issues and carers whose only way of coping is to shut him away.While not unique to Indonesia, padlocks, shackles and chains are frequently used to cover for a lack of proper mental health provision in the world's fourth most-populous nation.But the coronavirus epidemic has exacerbated the problem, forcing many people back into chains after they had been freed following a

When the COVID-19 outbreak hit most nations around the world, governments scrambled to contain the virus and to mitigate the impacts of the pandemic. Today, over one million people have lost their lives as a result of the deadly disease. Whereas millions of others have experienced unemployment, furlough and salary cuts. In the United States (US) alone, layoffs exceeded 42 million by June this year.

On 11 March, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the COVID-19 virus outbreak as a pandemic due to the exponential increase in the number of cases in more than 100 countries. Then on 16 March, President Duterte placed the entire Philippines under a “State of Calamity” amid the threats posed by COVID-19.