Italy's fertility rate fell to a new low of 1.14 children per woman in 2025 -- one of the lowest levels in the world, official data released on Tuesday showed.Fertility rates in the EU as a whole fell from 1.57 children per woman in 2010 to 1.34 in 2024.

Food and Drug Administration's approval of an oral version of Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy could potentially expand access to millions of patients and give the Danish company a much-needed fillip in the red-hot market. The first GLP-1 pill specifically for ​obesity, also branded as Wegovy, is a 25-mg oral formulation of semaglutide, the active ingredient in the blockbuster injectable version.

An archeological investigation into an ancient city in central Asia has shed new light on the region's economic history.