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WHO member states are being urged to recognise climate disinformation as a public health threat as vested interests attempt to “sow doubt and confusion”.

Protests in France rage on, as students and teachers continue to raise awareness of staff shortages, poor school infrastructure, defective equipment, and deeper anxieties over diminishing prospects and the cost-of-living crisis.

The days when governments could lean on cheap money and fast growth to keep their debts in check are over, according to the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), who called for spending discipline and tighter monetary policy around the world.

Russian officials tried on Monday to calm fears sparked by reports that a laboratory assistant in Siberia had died of plague. They insisted that the situation is under control and that post-mortem tests have allegedly found no trace of the disease.

Visitors to the Estonian pavilion at this year’s Venice International Art Biennale may have been surprised to see the country’s representative Merike Estna in person, creating her latest works.

French public debt rose again in the second quarter, reaching the unprecedented level of 3,595.5 billion euros at the end of June, the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee) announced on Tuesday 29 September.