Australia seeks deal with Moderna for domestic production
Australia is in talks with Moderna Inc to establish domestic manufacturing of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines such as the company's Covid-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said....
COVID-19 ravages rural India
India's coronavirus death toll crossed a quarter million on Wednesday in the deadliest 24 hours since the pandemic began, as the disease rampaged through the countryside, overloading a fragile rural...
Qatar to gradually lift Covid measures from May 28
Qatar on Sunday decided on gradually lifting coronavirus-related measures in four phases starting the first phase on May 28 and the fourth on July 30, the state news agency said, citing a health...
Archaeologists uncover Neanderthal remains
Archaeologists discovered the remains of nine Neanderthals at a prehistoric site near Rome, Italy's culture ministry said on Saturday.Eight of the remains are dated to between 50,000 and 68,000 years...
WhatsApp delays enforcing new privacy terms
Facebook-owned messaging colossus WhatsApp on Friday retreated again from its plan to force users to accept new terms which critics said could expand data collection from its two billion users around...
Fresh pizza vending machine prompts curiosity
Raffaele Esposito, the 19th century Neapolitan credited with inventing Italy's most famous type of pizza, maybe turning in his grave: Rome has a new vending machine which slides out freshly cooked...
US backs vaccine patent waiver, EU ready for talks
BRUSSELS: The European Union is willing to discuss a proposal, now backed by the United States, to waive intellectual property rights for Covid-19 vaccines, European Commission president Ursula von...
Saudi Arabia likely to stop foreign haj pilgrims this year
Saudi Arabia is considering barring overseas pilgrims from the annual haj for the second year running as COVID-19 cases rise globally and worries grow about the emergence of new variants, two sources...
Fashion from waste to fight pollution
In a district of Lagos, Nigeria's megacity, a group of teenagers wade through a mass of plastic bottles, food containers and bags that have blocked a waterway. Wearing gloves and masks, they pick up...
Malaysia reports first case of Indian variant
Malaysia has detected its first case of a highly infectious coronavirus variant first identified in India, Health Minister Adham Baba said on Sunday, days after imposing a ban on flights from...
Biden to ban most travel to US from India
US President Joe Biden is expected to impose new travel restrictions on India starting Tuesday in light of the COVID-19 epidemic, barring most non-US citizens from entering the United States, a White...