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Canada's top doctor is urging people to get their booster shots as COVID-19 activity continues to fluctuate in the country. Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's chief public health officer, emphasized that many Canadians who are eligible for a booster…

It's been a year since Omicron burst onto the scene, spiking COVID-19 case counts to new heights and dramatically changing the trajectory of the pandemic.Since then, the variant has spawned a family of highly transmissible cousins. Some…

Armed men opened fire inside a hotel in central Kabul that housed some Chinese citizens in the latest violence in Afghanistan as Taliban tries to stabilise after the withdrawal of US-led foreign forces.The firing was continuing in the hotel…

Having hung up his shield, Chris Evans turns out to be the perfect choice to voice this version of Buzz Lightyear, a space ranger introduced on a perilous mission with his partner Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) and a wide-eyed rookie who has…

Bluesky, Twitter’s open-source offshoot, has released early code for a decentralized social network protocol. The system is dubbed the Authenticated Data Experiment (or ADX) and is available on GitHub for developers to test, although…

LONDON : Decentralised finance - or DeFi - is throwing up new risks for investors as it evolves to mirror traditional markets, a global body for securities regulators said on Thursday, adding to a chorus of warnings about the…

Lab technicians in the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology in Russia.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesIt's been two weeks since South Africa reported the omicron Covid variant to the World Health…

Last year, when the Ford Foundation announced an initiative to give more than $100 million to arts groups run by people of color, none of the 20 initial recipients were in the Southeast.So Suzette Surkamer, the president and chief executive…

Covid vaccines appear to work just as well against the more transmissible Delta variant offshoot as they do on its ancestor, health chiefs claimed today.A report by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which replaced the now-defunct…

Health chiefs today bumped up the threat from the even more transmissible Delta off-shoot amid fears it may have already infected 150,000 Britons.The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), which took over from the now-defunct Public Health…