The World Health Organisation on Friday (Jan 21) recommended extending the use of a reduced dosage of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine to children...

SYDNEY - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden has cancelled her wedding as the nation imposes new restrictions to slow the...

Thich Nhat Hanh, the Zen Buddhist monk, poet and peace activist who in the 1960s came to prominence as an...

CHICAGO - The Omicron variant, which is spreading far faster than previous versions of the coronavirus, is not likely to...

KARACHI - Pakistan reported on Friday (Jan 21) over 7,000 Covid-19 cases in a single day, its highest daily number...

LAHORE - A bomb blast ripped through a crowded market in eastern Pakistan on Thursday (Jan 21), killing three people...

TOKYO - Japan on Wednesday widened Covid-19 curbs to the capital Tokyo and a dozen regions covering half the population...

BANGKOK - Thailand will resume its 'Test & Go' quarantine waiver for vaccinated arrivals from Feb 1, its coronavirus task force...

MANILA - The Philippines opened a zoo on Wednesday (Jan 19) as a makeshift vaccination centre in the hope its...

MADRID/LONDON — Using the number of people in hospital with Covid-19 to gauge the severity of the pandemic may not...