Global executions hit their highest figure since 2015, as over 1,500 people were executed across 15 countries in 2024, said ...

New study reveals that Black children in the U.S. have faced significantly higher mortality rates than white peers since the ...

Mumbai: The state has achieved a 27% reduction in child mortality between Apr 2022 and Feb 2025, with deaths in the 0-5 age group declining from 17,150 to 12,438 in this period. The state health ...

In January and February, when the Omicron strain first spread widely across Japan, the death rate in that age group was 0.7 percent. And during the fifth wave of infections between July and ...

The number of deaths due to COVID-19 in the last 22 days is incomplete due to the time it takes to process death certificates. Earlier dates’ totals will be updated as new information is released.

The UK death rate has reached a record low after mortality experts looked at death certificates registered last year and uncovered that deaths per head of the population are back to pre-pandemic ...

During the same period, the national homicide rate dropped — a sign to many policymakers that spending on law and order works. But over time, police spending has outpaced the corresponding ...