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A bluefin tuna sold for 20.8 million yen ($202,197) in the first auction of the new year at Tokyo’s Toyosu fish market on Tuesday when it reopened after the holiday break. ...

As a team from the World Health Organization (WHO) prepares to visit China to investigate the origins of COVID-19, Beijing has stepped up efforts not only to prevent new outbreaks, ...

Former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson has said it is his personal duty and the game’s responsibility to address the problem of dementia that has impacted several former players. ...

Tottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho has said Tuesday’s League Cup semi-final at home to Championship (second-tier) side Brentford is his biggest game since he took the reins at the ...

Elite sport will be allowed to continue in England despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing a new national COVID-19 lockdown on Monday due to surging infections in the country caused ...

Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc expects to start a late-stage US study of its experimental Covid-19 vaccine candidate in the second quarter of 2021, the drug developer’s chief executive officer said on ...

State-owned investment funds, including those of Norway, China, and UAE which have trillions of dollars to spend, invested the least in real estate in eight years in 2020, shying away from ...

More than two-thirds of the 15 million coronavirus vaccines shipped within the United States have gone unused, U.S. health officials as the governors of New York and Florida vowed to ...

Turkish inflation edged higher than expected to 14.6 per cent year-on-year in December as food costs jumped, official data showed on Monday, keeping pressure on the central bank for tight monetary ...

A breakthrough has been reached in Qatar’s three-year-old dispute with Saudi Arabia and three other Arab countries and an agreement aimed at ending their rift is to be signed ...

A superb second-minute lob by Danny Ings against his former club gave Southampton a surprise 1-0 home win over Premier League leaders Liverpool, with the Reds’ attack looking rudderless as ...

By Doina Chiacu and Julia Harte Georgia’s top election official said on Monday that fellow Republican President Donald Trump had pushed him to take an “inappropriate” call in which ...

By William Schomberg and Elizabeth Piper British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday ordered England into a new national lockdown to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases that threatens to ...

The number of undocumented migrants arriving in Spain’s Canary Islands on rickety boats was more than eight times higher in 2020 from the previous year, the Spanish Interior Ministry said ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will set out further measures later on Monday to try to control the rising spread in cases from the new variant of COVID-19, a spokesman ...

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has not been able to reach a decision on the approval of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, the Dutch national medicines authority said. The ...

Egypt’s tourism sector is eying a gradual recovery after revenues plunged by nearly 70% to $4 billion in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the tourism minister and travel companies said. The ...

By Michael Holden A British judge ruled on Monday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face criminal charges including breaking a spying ...

Scientists are not fully confident that COVID-19 vaccines will work on a new variant of the coronavirus found in South Africa, ITV’s political editor said on Monday, citing an ...

Germany’s health ministry is seeking advice on whether to delay administering a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from BioNTech and Pfizer to make scarce supplies go further, according ...

As Indonesia prepares to begin mass inoculations against COVID-19, its plan to prioritise working age adults over the elderly, aiming to reach herd immunity fast and revive the economy, will ...

Britain began vaccinating its population with the COVID-19 shot developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca on Monday, touting a scientific “triumph” that puts it at the vanguard of the West ...

Gerry Marsden, lead singer of the British band Gerry and the Pacemakers whose version of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” became the thunderously sung anthem for Liverpool Football Club, has ...

OPEC sees plenty of downside risks for oil markets in the first half of 2021, its secretary general said on Sunday, a day before meeting allies led by Russia to discuss ...