A Chinese drugmaker says its coronavirus vaccine was found to be 79.3% effective at preventing infection, moving Beijing closer to possibly being able to fulfill its pledge to supply other

Deep in the lush mountain valleys of southern China lies the entrance to a mine shaft that once harbored bats with the closest known relative of the COVID-19 virus. The

The first reported US case of the highly-infectious Covid-19 variant that emerged in the UK has been confirmed in the state of Colorado. The patient, a man in his 20s

Pierre Cardin, the French designer whose Space Age style was among the iconic looks of 20th-century fashion, has died at 98. A licensing maverick, Cardin’s name embossed myriad products from

The latest report by Reporters Without Borders has shown that fifty journalists and media workers were killed in connection with their work in 2020. The watchdog said the majority of

The Democratic-led US House of Representatives has voted to override President Donald Trump’s veto of a $740 billion defence policy bill, a move that underscored divisions in the Republican Party

India has found six people who returned from Britain in recent weeks with a more infectious strain of the novel coronavirus that has prompted border closures around the world. All

A white police officer in Columbus, Ohio, has been fired for fatally shooting an unarmed Black man last week in what the city’s police chief deemed an “unreasonable use of

The US House has voted overwhelmingly to increase Covid-19 relief checks to $2,000, meeting President Donald Trump’s demand for bigger payments. The bill will be to the GOP-controlled Senate, where

US President-elect Joe Biden criticised President Donald Trump’s stewardship of the US’s foreign policy and national security apparatus, saying “many of those agencies that are critical to our security have

One of Saudi Arabia’s most prominent women’s rights activists has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison under a vague and broadly worded counterterrorism law. The ruling nearly brings

Finland has become the latest European country to report the presence of two new coronavirus variants – one stemming from the UK and the other from South Africa. Health officials said

Japan has barred entry of all non-resident foreign nationals as a precaution against a new and potentially more contagious coronavirus variant. “To save people’s lives, and to take precautionary measures,

Trials for ten people accused of attempting to flee Hong Kong by speedboat amid a government crackdown on dissent got underway in China on Monday amid tight security. The defendants