A British government advisory scientist warned on Monday that Britain could be in the early stages of a third Covid-19 wave as the country reported another 3,383 cases. ....

UK PM Boris Johnson has married his fiance Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at the Westminster Cathedral in front of about 30 close friends and family members, a media report said on Sunday. In its report, Daily Mail said that the 56-year-old Johnson exchanged vows with Symonds, 33, on Saturday morning, becoming the first Prime Minister to marry in office since Lord Liverpool wed Mary Chester in 1822. ....

UK PM Boris Johnson has married his fiance Carrie Symonds in a secret ceremony at the Westminster Cathedral in front of about 30 close friends and family members, a media report said on Sunday. ....

A media outlet late on Saturday released images of fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi while in the custody of the authorities in the Caribbean nation of Dominica, where the billionaire mysteriously surfaced this week after going missing from Antigua and Barbuda, his home for the last three years. ....

In yet another act of brutality, a 16-year-old teenage boy was gang raped Pakistan's Dera Ismail Khan city by at least five people, who also filmed and uploaded the video of the incident on social media. ....

An Indian-origin man, who saved at least one person in a California mass shooting, was among the nine people killed by a railway worker who killed himself in San Jose, according to officials. ....

Nearly 1,15,000 health and care workers have died due to Covid since the pandemic began last year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday, hailing their sacrifice and asserting the need to protect and invest in healthcare workforce as a matter of urgency. ....

US' top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has said he is "not convinced" Covid-19 developed naturally, and has called for an open investigation into China to unravel the virus' origins, the media reported. ....

The 7-day average of new Covid-19 infections was about 29,100 as of Thursday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, marking the first time the average was below 30,000 since June 22, 2020. ....

Pakistan's coronavirus death toll crossed 20,000 on Friday as authorities struggle to contain a third wave of the pandemic that has battered the South Asian nation. ....