The year 2024 was the hottest on record, continuing a decade-long trend of unprecedented global temperatures. All of the past ten years now rank among the hottest ever recorded. January 2025 has already set a new record as the warmest January, signaling another year of escalating global temperatures.
More than 120 people have fallen ill in Russia’s Siberian republic of Buryatia following a mass food poisoning outbreak linked to ready-made meals sold in a regional supermarket chain, local health officials told media.
One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections causing common infections in people worldwide in 2023 were resistant to antibiotic treatments, according to a new World Health Organization (WHO) report launched today. Between 2018 and 2023, antibiotic resistance rose in over 40% of the pathogen-antibiotic combinations monitored, with an average annual increase of 5–15%.
The Indonesian government has suspended 112 nutrition fulfillment service units (SPPGs), or kitchens for the Free Nutritious Meals (MBG) program, for failing to meet safety standards set by the National Nutrition Agency (BGN).














