WHO emergency COVID-19 vaccine listing aims to lift access in poor countries

ZURICH: The World Health Organization on Thursday listed Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, in a move seeking to spe...

Australia changes National Anthem wording to reflect Indigenous history

SYDNEY: Australia amended its national anthem to remove reference to the country being “young and free” amid calls to recognise that its In...

Samuel Little: America’s worst serial killer dies after confessing to 93 murders

Samuel Little, the man authorities say was the most prolific serial killer in American history, has died in California. He was 80. Samuel ...

Fired employee intentionally spoiled COVID-19 vaccine

GRAFTON: In a shocking incident, a health-care employee deliberately spoiled more than 500 doses of coronavirus vaccine at a hospital in Wi...

Emergency cash calls, tech IPO frenzy push 2020 banker fees to record high

Emergency corporate fundraising and a clamour for tech stock market listings pushed equity capital market volumes to over $1 trillion in 20...

Bewildered and angry, Northern Ireland unionists fret over place in UK

LARNE: As Northern Ireland’s unionists prepare to celebrate 100 years since the state’s creation cemented their place in the United Kingdom...

Fireworks explode over empty streets as 2020 slinks away into history

The Sydney Opera House fireworks soared into the sky, but the harbour below was empty as a ghost town, a fittingly creepy send-off for a ye...

Gold wraps up shiniest year since 2010

Gold prices were little changed in holiday-thinned trade on Thursday, but the yellow metal was enroute to register its best annual performa...

What we know about China-made vaccines

China was ahead in the global race to develop coronavirus vaccines with the most candidates in late stage of trials earlier in the year and...

COVID-19 shook, rattled and rolled the global economy in 2020

When 2020 dawned, the global economy had just notched its 10th straight year of uninterrupted growth, a streak most economists and governme...

British PM Johnson’s father applying for French citizenship

PARIS: The father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday he was in the process of applying for a French passport to maint...

China gives its first COVID-19 vaccine approval to Sinopharm

BEIJING: China approved a COVID-19 vaccine developed by an affiliate of state-backed pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm on Thursday, its first ...

Lockdown in England to be widened as cases rise, Hancock says

Lockdown measures in England will be extended to counter the rapidly growing number of cases of a new variant of COVID-19, Health Secretary...

Thirteen die in attack on Aden airport moments after new Yemen cabinet lands

ADEN: At least 13 people were killed and dozens more wounded in an attack on Aden airport on Wednesday moments after a plane landed carryin...

UK house prices rise by most in six years

LONDON: British house prices rose faster than expected in December to record their biggest annual increase in six years, as tax incentives ...

New coronavirus variant does not cause illness more severe than others

A new variant of the novel coronavirus does not appear to cause more severe illness than other variants, according to a matched study by Pu...

Britain first to approve AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine

LONDON: Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and Astr...

Nurse tests positive for COVID-19 after receiving Pfizer vaccine: report

A 45-year-old nurse in California tested positive for COVID-19 more than a week after receiving Pfizer Inc’s coronavirus vaccine, an ABC Ne...

Singapore begins rollout of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine with healthcare workers

SINGAPORE: A 46-year-old nurse became the first person in Singapore to receive Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, making the ...

‘Pray floods don’t kill us’: A day on Rohingya’s remote Bangladesh island

BHASAN CHAR: As a Bangladeshi naval ship anchored off a remote Bay of Bengal island, some of the Rohingya Muslim refugees aboard clapped in...

‘Love wins’, say Harry and Meghan

LOS ANGELES: Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan on Tuesday thanked essential workers and offered encouragement to people who suffer...

Pierre Cardin, father of fashion branding, dies at 98

PARIS: French couturier Pierre Cardin, who made his name by selling designer clothes to the masses, and his fortune by being the first to e...

Earthquake strikes Croatia, Slovenia shuts nuclear power plant

ZAGREB: An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck a town in central Croatia on Tuesday, killing a child, injuring many people and wrecking hous...

Study says Britain must vaccinate two million a week against COVID-19

Britain must vaccinate two million people a week to avoid a third wave of the coronavirus outbreak, a study by the London School of Hygiene...

US to allow small drones to fly over people and at night

WASHINGTON: Small drones will be allowed to fly over people and at night in the United States, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) sa...

Family warns others of short visits after losing mother, father to COVID-19

CHICAGO: A simple haircut has cost a couple their lives just days before Christmas due to COVID-19 in Chicago. The family has been left he...

Vaccine overdose puts German care workers in hospital

BERLIN: Germany’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign has been overshadowed by a mishap in the north where eight workers in an elderly care home ...

Britain reports record daily number of new coronavirus cases, topping 40,000

 Britain reported 41,385 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, a daily record, as a rapidly spreading variant of the coronavirus increases infectio...