TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced that his government is extending a state of emergency in the Tokyo region for another two...
TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced that his government is extending a state of emergency in the Tokyo region for another two...
LONDON: British artist Banksy has shared a video of himself in the process of painting stencil graffiti of a prisoner escaping which appeared...
COPENHAGEN: Denmark's health authority said on Friday it would recommend giving AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine to everyone aged over 18 after a vaccination study...
CHISINAU: Moldova became the first European country to receive COVID-19 vaccines from the global COVAX scheme, Moldovan President Maia Sandu said on Friday....
GENEVA: World Health Organization officials said on Friday the risk of an Ebola outbreak spreading from Guinea to its neighbours was "very high"...
TOKYO - Japanese supercomputer simulations showed that wearing two masks gave limited benefit in blocking viral spread compared with one properly fitted mask....
NEW DELHI - India administered 1.4 million vaccine doses in the past 24 hours, health ministry data showed on Friday, the highest in...
SHANGHAI - Despite a high-profile visit to China by a team of international experts in January, the world is no closer to knowing...
TOKYO - Takeda Pharmaceutical said it had asked regulators to approve use of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, which would add a third...
MANILA - The Philippines has recorded 52 more cases of a highly contagious coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa, the health ministry...
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa is negotiating with an African Union (AU) platform to buy COVID-19 vaccines for at least 10 million of its...
WELLINGTON - A powerful series of undersea quakes struck north-east of New Zealand on Friday, but Tsunami waves that forced many people on...
AMSTERDAM - A Dutch inventor has come up with what he hopes could be a potentially faster and easier method to screen for...
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI, Pakistan - Pakistan's Prime Minister, Imran Khan, said he will seek a vote of confidence from parliament on Saturday after the finance...
JOHANNESBURG - South African police have seized hundreds of fake COVID-19 vaccines and arrested four suspects in connection with the haul, the Interpol...
LOS ANGELES - California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday the state would set aside 40% of its COVID-19 vaccine doses for the...
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to take up President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill, setting up what is...
The Canadian minister in charge of vaccines said it’s "highly likely” the government will be able to move up its target date for...
