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...
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