The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), led by Dr Jenny Harries, launches today Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock and UKHSA Chief Executive Dr Jenny Harries will visit Colindale laboratories to mark the occasion UK provides £4 million to the …

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The country is now welcoming tourists from the EU, UK and around a dozen other countries around the world After several very long months, Greece started lifting lockdown restrictions through summer and autumn last year – and now it wants to help salvage your 2021 holiday plans.

A gender reveal has gone horribly wrong after two pilots died when their plane crashed into the ocean during the stunt. The incident took place over the Nichutpé Lagoon off the coast of Cancun in Mexico, as reported by a number of outlets. Woman …

John le Carre, the British novelist who cast flawed spies onto the bleak chessboard of Cold War rivalry, was so disillusioned by the 2016 Brexit vote to leave the European Union that he secured Irish citizenship shortly before he died. David Cornwell …

KABUL, April 1 (Xinhua) — Afghanistan's Public Health Ministry reported 55 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, raising the total infections to 56,572, including 2,290 active cases. The pandemic has so far claimed 2,495 lives in Afghanistan since February last …

A four-year-old child was found trying to cross the US-Mexico border by himself. Mexican officials said he was found walking towards the border near the Rio Grande river. An increased number of unaccompanied migrant children have been trying to enter the US.

The Los Angeles County sheriff says detectives have determined what caused Tiger Woods to crash his SUV last month in Southern California, but would not release the details, citing unspecified privacy concerns for the golf star. Detectives obtained the …

Pakistan's media regulatory agency has reinstated access to the Chinese video service TikTok after a court banned it weeks ago and urged authorities to ensure that it carried no "vulgar" content. The court in Peshawar had issued the ban on March 11 following complaints about the alleged presence of "immoral …

Russia's prison service has defended its treatment of Alexei Navalny, dismissing complaints by the hunger-striking Kremlin critic that he was not getting the medical care he needed in jail and was subjected to sleep deprivation.