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Filmmaker Armando Iannucci’s comedy-drama The Personal History of David Copperfield, featuring Hollywood star Dev Patel in the lead, is set to release theatrically in India on December 11. The film,…

Australia amended its national anthem to remove reference to the country being “young and free” amid calls to recognise that its Indigenous people are the oldest continued civilization in the…

Blue and gold fireworks soared into the sky above the Sydney Opera House as they do every New Year’s Eve, but the harbour below was a deserted ghost town, a…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The man authorities say was the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, with nearly 60 confirmed victims, died Wednesday in California. He was 80. Samuel…

It has gotten less attention than expanded unemployment insurance or the battle over stimulus checks, but tucked into the year-end legislation passed by Congress last week was a provision that…

More than 3,000 cases of the variant, which is reportedly 70 percent contagious, have already been reported in the UK and dozens of countries in Europe and around the…

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) was offered a history lesson on after he fretted over stay-at-home orders imposed to limit the spread of the deadly coronavirus ravaging the nation.  “What…

Datta Jayanti or Dattatreya Jayanti is the birth anniversary of a Hindu deity encompassing the trinity of Lords Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwar (Shiva), collectively known as the Trimurti Datta Jayanti…

Agence France-PresseDec 28, 2020 10:23:02 IST Geneva: The coronavirus crisis will not be the last pandemic, and attempts to improve human health is “doomed” without tackling climate change and animal welfare,…

The WHO director-general also condemned the ‘dangerously short-sighted’ cycle of throwing cash at outbreaks but doing nothing to prepare for the next one Representational image. PTI Geneva: The coronavirus crisis will…

Sydney, Australia (CNN) — Ask almost any Australian about a drop bear, and they’ll likely recount a close encounter with this carnivorous, fanged cousin of the Australian koala. They might…

The Christmas tree tradition made its way from Germany to the United States in the late 18th century, when Hessian troops joined the British to fight in the Revolutionary War.…

She is tested positive for COVID-19 but asymptomatic, her son tested negative. East Godavari District Medical and Health Officer K.V.S. Gowreeswara Rao on Thursday said that the 47-year-old Anglo-Indian woman,…

The Union Health Ministry has issued standard operating procedure (SOP) for epidemiological surveillance and response in the context of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 virus detected in the United Kingdom…

The Union Health Ministry has issued standard operating procedure (SOP) for epidemiological surveillance and response in the context of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 virus detected in the United Kingdom…

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Sunday addressed the general distrust of a COVID-19 vaccine among communities of color ― specifically Black Americans ― and how the government must work to…

On 4 December, 2000, the United Nations General Assembly, taking into account the ever-increasing number of migrants in the world, proclaimed 18 December as International Migrants’ Day Representational image. AP…

Front nurse Sandra Lindsay was administered the shot developed by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, in Long Island Jewish Medical Center, in Queens on Monday. Sandra Lindsay, left, a…

Professor Stephen Powis, national medical director for the National Health Service in England, said the condition of the two people who received the vaccine are recovering well A nurse prepares…

Deputy charge nurse Katie McIntosh administers the first of two Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine jabs, to Vivien McKay Clinical Nurse Manager at the Western General Hospital, on the first day of…

MSNBC has named Rashida Jones its next president, making her the first Black executive to run a major general news cable network, The Wall Street Journal reported. Jones, who currently…

After landing a breakout role on “Big Sky,” Jesse James Keitel spent a great deal of time grappling with the idea that their performance would provide much-needed visibility that could mean…

December 6, 2020, marks the death 64th death anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. The social reformer, economist, thinker, politician and the first Law…

Midway through Mank, Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) is explaining his screenplay — tentatively titled America — to producer John Houseman (Sam Troughton). Houseman has been tasked with keeping the…

CDC Director, Dr. Robert Redfield, testifies during a US Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine Covid-19, focusing on an update on the federal response in…

Let us talk about the severe storm, the landfall of which commenced on Wednesday night. The name of the severe cyclonic storm is Nivar. Apart from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh,…