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The latest figure released on Saturday marked a new record of patients in serious condition since the pandemic outbreak in the country in late February, Xinhua news agency reported.

Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, said in an advert rolled out on radio, TV and social media on Saturday: "COVID-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country. This puts many people at risk

Flight tracking data showed the Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737-500 plunged into a steep dive about four minutes after it left Soekarno-Hatta international airport

The Boeing 737-524 was bound to Pontianak on the island of Borneo.

It was unclear how many passengers and crew were aboard the Boeing 737-500, which has a capacity of about 130, when it left Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta international airport Saturday afternoon.

"A Sriwijaya (Air) plane from Jakarta to Pontianak (on Borneo island) with call sign SJY182 has lost contact," said ministry spokesman Adita Irawati.

The duck boat tours were a longtime popular attraction in the tourist town but had not returned to the lake since the tragedy.

Worshippers were forced to look but not touch the centuries-old statue of Jesus Christ believed to have healing powers

Madrid airport closed, 400 roads affected amid heaviest snow in 50 years

"It is not only an insult to the Republican Party but also to America and democracy. That is why we are expressing our displeasure. I will try to speak to him (Donald Trump) over the phone," the Republican Party of India (A), president said.

After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter

"To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th," tweeted Trump, who faces uncertainty as calls for his removal gain ground ahead of his term

US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick was reportedly struck in the head with a fire extinguisher on Wednesday while struggling with the rioters who swarmed through the halls of Congress

Hyderabad: Twitter is now abuzz with netizens spotting some uncanny resemblances between the pro-Trump protests outside the Capitol on Wednesday and an episode of the American sitcom The Simpsons that aired in 1996 – ‘The day the violence died’. Twitterati feels that The Simpsons might have predicted the outrage at the capitol building way before […]

Tests have shown that "antibodies from people who have received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine effectively neutralise SARS-CoV-2 with a key mutation that is also found in two highly transmissible strains," said the German company of the vaccine it developed with US group Pfizer.

Geothermal energy is the heat that comes from the sub-surface of the earth. It is contained in the rocks and fluids beneath the earth’s crust and can be found as far down to the earth’s hot molten rock, magma.

UN proscribed terrorist Lakhvi, 61, who was on bail since 2015 in the Mumbai attack case, was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab province on Saturday.

The lander woke up at 3.13 a.m. on Friday (Beijing time), and the rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, woke up at 10.29 a.m. on Thursday, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.

Former policemen Ma Baoli's app Blued is a haven for the LGBTQ community

The ban on flights to the UK was lifted on January 6. 30 flights will operate each week - 15 each by Indian and UK carriers. This schedule will continue till January 23, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri had informed earlier.

A couple has been giving away hot meals to people left unemployed due to the pandemic

The salaries of the rank and file may have plummeted alongside everyone else's earnings in a country that has been in recession for seven years, but the military as an institution remains powerful.

According to the Health Department of the state of Queensland where Brisbane locates, the Greater Brisbane area will enter lockdown from 6:00 pm Friday to 6:00 pm (local time) next Monday.

"The situation is far from being back to normal. The level of contamination remains high and has tended to increase since mid-December," Xinhua news agency quoted Castex as saying at a press conference on Thursday.