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The World Health Assembly certified that smallpox had been wiped from the earth - the only human disease ever eradicated. The last natural case had been in Somalia in 1977, and the campaign that found it had traced and vaccinated outwards from every case for a decade.

China became the WTO's 143rd member on 11 December 2001, fifteen years after applying. Its export share of world trade roughly quadrupled over the next two decades, and the bargain struck in Doha is still what the tariff argument is about.

At a seminar at CERN, the ATLAS and CMS experiments each report a new boson at around 125-126 GeV at five sigma, independently and from the same data-taking runs. It is the last unverified piece of the Standard Model.

Eight months after the first cases in Guinea, the WHO declared the Ebola epidemic in West Africa a public health emergency of international concern. It became the largest Ebola outbreak in history: more than 28,000 cases and 11,000 deaths across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Volvo gave the second-generation XC60 its world debut at the Geneva Motor Show on 7 March 2017, with a 250 hp turbo T5, a 316-320 hp T6 and a 400 hp T8 plug-in hybrid; US pricing later started at US$41,500.

BMW revealed the second-generation G02 X4 on 14 February 2018, ahead of its Geneva show debut; sales began in July 2018 in the US from $50,450 for the xDrive30i and $60,450 for the M40i.

Peugeot revealed the second-generation 208 on 25 February 2019 ahead of its Geneva show debut, with 75, 100 and 130 hp 1.2 PureTech petrols, a 100 hp diesel and the 136 hp e-208, from EUR 15,490 in Germany at the June 2019 price list.

Six weeks after declaring a public health emergency, the WHO's Director-General told a Geneva briefing that COVID-19 could be characterised as a pandemic - 118,000 cases in 114 countries at the time. Most of the world's lockdowns began within a fortnight.

Three years and three months after declaring it, the WHO ended COVID-19's status as a public health emergency of international concern. The Director-General was careful to say the virus was not gone - only that it no longer needed emergency governance.

Narrated boat tours past lakefront mansions, plus brunch, dinner and fall-color cruises.

A WTO panel ruled on 28 July 2026 that Turkey's additional 40% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehicles and its discriminatory import permit rules breach trade rules, in a case China brought in October 2024.

Swiss-made monoblock power amplifier delivering 1,560 watts into 8 ohms.

On 21 August 2026 the International Electrotechnical Commission approved a China-led proposal for an international standard on solid-state traction batteries, starting a 24-36 month drafting process built on a 0.5% mass-loss threshold.

WMO expects the established El Niño to strengthen in the coming months and persist through February 2027, with increased risks of floods, drought and extreme heat. Its September–November outlook already anticipates rainfall and temperature patterns associated with strong El Niño.

WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization holds its autumn meeting on 5-8 October 2026 at WHO headquarters in hybrid format, by invitation only; the agenda is to be published nearer the time.

WHO's IHR Emergency Committee on the Bundibugyo Ebola epidemic is due to reconvene, roughly three months after its 18 August meeting, to say whether the emergency still stands. WHO counts 7,890 confirmed cases and 3,799 deaths in the DRC as of 23 September 2026.

WHO extended the polio Temporary Recommendations for a further three months from 21 August 2026, so the IHR Emergency Committee is expected to review whether polio remains a public health emergency around late November. Wild poliovirus type 1 stays confined to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, holds its December 2026 meeting on 9-10 December, the governing body that oversees vaccine programmes for measles, malaria, cholera and other diseases in lower-income countries.

The Global Fund expects generic lenacapavir, the twice-yearly HIV prevention injection, to enter the market by the end of 2026, with 24 countries worldwide due to receive it by then. Nearly 100,000 people in nine high-burden African countries had received it by mid-August 2026.

WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization meets on 15-18 March 2027 at WHO headquarters in hybrid format, by invitation only.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivers the first special report devoted to climate change and cities, due in March 2027. It is one of three special and methodology reports in the AR7 cycle.

The World Health Assembly opens in Geneva on 23 May 2027 with the Pandemic Agreement's pathogen access and benefit-sharing (PABS) annex due for consideration after member states extended the negotiations in 2026.

Robin Energy Storage is advancing the 200 MW / 800 MWh utility-scale Balsam Battery Energy Storage System across agricultural parcels near the Balsam Substation in the Town of Wheatland, Kenosha County, Wisconsin. Filed under the Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity framework with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSCW), the four-hour battery installation connects to the regional 138 kV transmission system to support Milwaukee-Chicago regional power flows and grid reliability.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative's extended strategy sets certification of wild poliovirus type 1 eradication by the end of 2027, with transmission in Afghanistan and Pakistan meant to stop first. Both countries still report cases.