
While the world is on high alert due to the new Omicron Covid strain, Delta variant continues to be a major cause of the pandemic contributing to 99 per cent of cases, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday....

Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey has decided against throwing his hat into the ring to be elected the next Governor of Texas....

The US has "the potential to go into a fifth wave" of coronavirus infections, said top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci amid the rising cases due to the newly detected Covid variant Omicron and stagnating vaccination rates....

An American woman invited an Afghan refugee family for a Thanksgiving meal and served a delicious turkey in an attempt to help them get acquainted with American traditions and settle down in the new country....

A top US health expert on Sunday (local time) informed that it will take approximately two more weeks to have more definitive information on the transmissibility, severity, and other characteristics of the Omicron COVID-19 variant....

Former US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has sued the Defence Department accusing Pentagon officials of blocking parts of his memoir....

The global coronavirus caseload has topped 261.46 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 5.19 million and vaccination to over 7.60 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University....

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has thanked South Africa for a swift and transparent approach to the emergence of the new, Omicron, variant of the coronavirus, US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said....

A top US health expert has said that the Omicron strain of the COVID-19 is likely to spread widely....

An electronics store in Minnesota was looted by a group of 20 to 30 people on Black Friday, the Burnsville Police Department said....