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XBB.1.5 made up 21.7 per cent of the total cases in the previous week ending December 24, Xinhua news agency reported.

WHO reiterated the importance of vaccination and boosters to protect against severe disease and death for people at higher risk.

Former Minister Alok Sharma, 55, has been honoured with the Order of St Michael and St George for his contribution to combating climate change through his role as the President of 26th UN Climate Change Conference.

As part of the programme, candidates will be trained in India for two months and leave for the United States on March 6 for the internship

According to Reuters, the brothers were detained alongside two Romanian suspects after his house was raided in the capital, Bucharest.

With larger 11.1-inch and 13-inch screen sizes planned for the OLED iPad Pro models, devices might come with slimmed-down bezels.

The bank is reportedly considering cutting about 8 per cent of its 49,000 employees, which could equate to as many as 4,000 job losses.

The standard-bearer of “the beautiful game” had undergone treatment for colon cancer since 2021.

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh in a tweet linked the deaths of 70 kids in Gambia to the death of 18 children in Uzbekistan.

The Uzbekistan government has alleged that 18 children have died in the central Asian nation following the consumption of a cough syrup produced by an Indian pharmaceutical firm Marion Biotech

The hilarious video showcasing the odd-looking yet useful umbrella is now going viral on the micro-blogging platform

The man explained that he hoped a charity would find him some temporary accommodation so he was not on the street for Christmas.

Narayana Muddana (40) and Haritha Muddana (36) were killed in the tragedy on December 26 at Woods Canyon Lake in Coconino County, according to information reaching their family in Guntur district.

More than 3,500 flights scheduled to leave Wednesday have already been cancelled, according to flight tracking service FlightAware.

Cristiano Ronaldo received a Rolls-Royce Dawn, from his partner Georgina Rodriguez as a Christmas present

Independent journalist David Zweig released the new 'Twitter Files' on how the micro-blogging platform "rigged the Covid debate", and relied on bots and third-party contractors to moderate Covid-related topics.

New York City has so far recorded 28 weather-related deaths, while the region around Buffalo has been worst affected.

Among the planes China sent towards Taiwan were 18 J-16 fighter jets, 11 J-1 fighters, 6 Su-30 fighters and drones.

The scope of the storm has been nearly unprecedented, stretching from the Great Lakes near Canada to the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico.

Describing the war as "senseless", the head of the Roman Catholic Church urged to put an immediate end to the ongoing aggression that took uncountable lives.

Cordyceps is mainly found in the Indian Himalayas and at higher altitudes of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau in southwestern China.

The CCI in October slapped a steep penalty of Rs 1,337.76 crore on internet giant Google for abusing its dominant position in multiple markets in relation to Android mobile devices

Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba who is also the incumbent prime minister and chairman of the CPN (Maoist Center) Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' were the frontrunners for the post of prime minister.

According to reports, weather forecasters are calling the chilling storm a ‘bomb cyclone’.