Gulf News

Paris: France has detected a highly pathogenic strain of bird flu in the pet section of a shop in one of Corsica’s main cities, the farm mi...

London / Geneva: A facility set up by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the GAVI vaccine group has exceeded an interim target of rais...

Beijing: Chinese health officials said Wednesday that two cold-chain storage workers in the port city of Tianjin were infected with COVID-1...

DUBAI: There are typically 4 phases in a vaccine trial. The first 3 are the most crucial. That, in theory, is the journey to be taken by al...

Kodiyeri Balakrishnan steps down as CPI (M) Kerala state secretaryDubai: Kodyeri Balakrishnan has stepped down from the powerful position...

Dubai: A number of countries have resumed visa services in the UAE amid COVID-19 pandemic allowing holiday makers to travel abroad during t...

The vitality and sustainability of large democracies were amply demonstrated in the last couple of weeks. Not only in US presidential elect...

Peshawar, Pakistan: Twenty-two wedding guests were killed when the rickshaw they were riding in fell into a canal in northwestern Pakistan,...

London: Collins Dictionary said on Tuesday that “lockdown” is its Word of The Year in 2020 following a dramatic increase in usage during th...

Washington: The overall number of global coronavirus cases has topped 53.8 million, while the deaths have surged to 1,309,780, according to...

Georgia's Republican Secretary of State said on Wednesday there was no sign yet of widespread fraud in his state's vote count, where Democr...

Forensic artists in the making? Last week, a regular cold Wednesday morning turned exciting for four six-year-olds in Germany’s Bockum-Höve...

Pfizer Inc on Monday said its experimental vaccine was more than 90 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19 based on initial data from a...

Sydney: A 91-year-old Australian man has survived a paragliding crash, walking away with only minor injuries after plunging into the ocean...

Patna: The attempts by the Election Commission to check the entry of gangsters into politics has suffered badly once again with the Bihar v...

Karachi: Sindh Law and Environment Adviser Barrister Murtaza Wahab has asked the Sindh Police to set up a special cell to deal with cases o...

Sydney: Australia’s coronavirus hotspot of Victoria on Tuesday reported a more than doubling in new infections likely as a result of increa...

Islamabad: Pakistan embassy staff in Canberra and Australian officials paid their respects this week to fallen Pakistan Army soldier, Lieut...

Moderna has announced on Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine is "94.5% effective".The US pharmaceutical company said its shot provides strong...

Spain's death toll surged over 40,000 on Wednesday with infections passing the 1.4 million mark, while the rate of new cases continued to g...

Washington: The decision this past week by the Danish government to kill millions of mink because of coronavirus concerns, effectively wipi...

United Nations: The UN undersecretary-general for peacekeeping, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, has tested positive for COVID-19 and is self-isolating...

Patna: Nitish Kumar was on Monday sworn in as the Chief Minister of Bihar for the seventh time in two decades, in presence of top leaders o...

Last Sunday, an autumn smoggy day, I travelled to a village near Sargodha, the city in Punjab where I spent the first sixteen years of my l...

Bamako: Mali’s president said he was resigning to avoid “bloodshed” early Wednesday, hours after his arrest by troops in a...