As America begins a historic vaccination campaign, the US Food and Drug Administration posted a preliminary analysis confirming the safety and effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Moderna in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, bringing it ever closer to an emergency use authorisation. ....

Researchers recently discovered that Covid-19 had started circulating in Italy as early as November 2019, about three months before the country's first case was reported. ....

Bahrain's health regulator announced that it has officially approved the registration of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by the China National Pharmaceutical Group, or Sinopharm, a state media report said. ....

US President Donald Trump has said that White House staffers should not be among the first in the country, currently the hardest-hit by the pandemic, to receive the coronavirus vaccinations. ....

The government of Eswatini says Prime Minister Ambrose Dlamini is no more, four weeks after he tested positive for the deadly coronavirus. ....

In a warning, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that 5 million Yemenis "will likely be living just one step away from famine in the upcoming year". ....

A registered Ayurveda centre that will provide alternative and complementary treatment for chronic conditions has opened in Abu Dhabi, a media report said on Friday. ....

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced that 51 years after the self-proclaimed 'Zodiac Killer' randomly killed five people in Northern California's Bay Area, a team of amateur codebreakers have solved a cryptic cipher sent to the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper in 1969, according to media reports. ....

Micro-blogging site Twitter on Saturday flagged a series of tweets posted by US President Donald Trump, who still disputes the outcome of the November 3 election that has projected his Democratic rival Joe Biden as the winner, within a span of an hour. ....

The US registered more than 3,000 coronavirus fatalities in the last 24 hours, the highest single-day spike since April, according to the Johns Hopkins University. ....