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90 year old Margaret Keenan, the first patient in the UK to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, administered by nurse May Parsons at University Hospital, Coventry, England, Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020. The United Kingdom, one of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus, is beginning its vaccination campaign, a key step toward eventually ending the pandemic. (AP)

90-year-old woman in UK receives first Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine

UK's Health Service said its workers have been working around the clock to manage large-scale logistical challenges of...

8 Dec 2020 1:43 PM IST

A general view of Pfizer Manufacturing Belgium in Puurs, Belgium. Pfizer and BioNTech say theyve won permission Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, for emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine in Britain, the worlds first coronavirus shot thats backed by rigorous science -- and a major step toward eventually ending the pandemic.(AP)

UK approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, first in the world

Britain's vaccine committee will decide which priority groups will get the jab first

2 Dec 2020 2:01 PM IST

An employee of the vaccine production company IDT Biologika shows an Ampoule during the visit by German health minister Spahn in Dessau, eastern Germany on November 23, 2020 as the race to develop a Covid-19 vaccine continues. (AFP)

Germany may start COVID-19 vaccine programme in December: Health...

Germany has secured more than 300 million vaccine doses via the European Commission, bilateral contracts and options

23 Nov 2020 9:51 PM IST

$Britain will ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars by 2030, a decade earlier than its previous commitment, the prime minister said Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020. Boris Johnson made the pledge as part of plans for a \green industrial revolution\ that he claims could create up to 250,000 jobs in energy, transport and technology. (AP)$ World

UK to ban gasoline, diesel car sales by 2030 as part of green plan

The environmental push is part of Johnson's efforts to move beyond the tremors of the coronavirus pandemic and Britain's...

18 Nov 2020 11:00 AM IST

People shout as they broke into the government building protesting against an agreement to halt fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, in Yerevan, Armenia Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. Armenia and Azerbaijan announced an agreement early Tuesday to halt fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan under a pact signed with Russia that calls for deployment of nearly 2,000 Russian peacekeepers and territorial concessions. (AP)

Armenia, Azerbaijan agree to end fight in Nagorno-Karabakh

The pact signed with Russia calls for deployment of nearly 2,000 Russian peacekeepers and territorial concessions

10 Nov 2020 1:47 PM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking in the House of Commons in London on November 2, 2020 on new coronavirus lockdown measures. (Photo : AFP)

More lockdowns in Europe as virus outbreaks grow

Chancellor Sebastian Kurz had announced the measures on Saturday, describing them as

3 Nov 2020 2:15 PM IST

Huge manhunt underway after gunmen open fire at multiple locations across central Vienna (Photo : AFP)

Vienna attack: Five killed as suspected IS sympathisers strike six...

At least three people were killed, with several wounded, when attackers opened fire in six central locations

3 Nov 2020 1:36 PM IST

Britains Prince William, Duke of Cambridge wears a face mask as he visits St. Bartholomews Hospital in London. - Prince William tested positive for coronavirus in April according to media reports on November 2, 2020. (AFP)

Prince William's COVID-19 positive kept secret in first wave of UK...

Around the same time in April, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital after testing positive for the...

2 Nov 2020 6:43 PM IST

French soldiers and Municipal Police officers stand behind a cordon-off area near the Orthodox Church where an attacker armed with a sawn-off shotgun wounded an Orthodox priest in a shooting before fleeing, on October 31, 2020 in Lyon, said a police source. - The priest, who has Greek nationality, was closing his church when the attack happened and is now in a serious condition, said the source, who asked not to be named. (AFP)

Greek Orthodox priest shot outside French church, suspect arrested

France is already on edge after the killing of three people inside a church in Nice and the beheading of a teacher...

1 Nov 2020 3:56 PM IST

Britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a virtual press conference inside 10 Downing Street in central London on October 31, 2020 to announce new lockdown restrictions in an effort to curb rising infections of the novel coronavirus. (AFP)

Johnson locks down England as UK COVID-19 cases pass 1 million

Johnson was criticised by political opponents for moving too slowly into the first national lockdown

1 Nov 2020 1:51 PM IST

People lights candle outside the Notre-Dame de lAssomption Basilica in Nice on October 29, 2020 in tribute to the three victims of a knife attacker, cutting the throat of at least one woman, inside the church of the French Riviera city. (AFP)

Church attack in Nice: What we know so far

The brutal killings come only two weeks after a French teacher was decapitated outside his school north of Paris by an...

30 Oct 2020 9:11 AM IST

Pope Francis delivers a speech during a ceremony for peace with representatives from various religions in Campidoglio Square in Rome on October 20, 2020. (AFP)

Pope says same-sex couples should be protected by civil union laws

He made his comments in a new documentary Francesco by Oscar-nominated director Evgeny Afineevsky that was released on...

22 Oct 2020 6:17 PM IST