“Learning to live with COVID-19 doesn’t mean we pretend it’s not there. It means we use all the tools we have to protect ourselves, and protect others,” Ghebreyesus tweeted. There has been a 35 per cent rise in COVID-19-related deaths in four weeks

Hadi Matar, of Fairview in New Jersey, was arrested last week and charged with second-degree attempted murder and assault after he stabbed Rushdie, 75, onstage at an event at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state

Chinese ballistic missile and satellite tracking ship `Yuan Wang 5` arrived in the southern port of Hambantota at 8.20 am local time. It will be docked there till August 22, officials said

Foreign ministry spokesperson says freedom of speech did not justify Rushdie’s insults against religion

The suspect’s father, Ibrahim, said his son had been unarmed and called his killing an execution. The Israeli officers entered the house, he said, and “immediately began shooting, and they shot my son in the head”

The General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces also reported Russian shelling of more than a dozen towns on the southern front - particularly the Kherson region, mainly controlled by Russian forces, but where Ukrainian troops are steadily capturing territory

The UK medicines regulator (MHRA) approved the so-called bivalent vaccine made by U.S. drug company Moderna as a booster for adults

The new drills come less than a fortnight after Beijing launched unprecedented war games in retaliation to US House Speaker Pelosi`s visit to Taiwan, sparking fears of a Chinese invasion of the breakaway island

The trial was held behind closed doors, with no access for media or the public, and her lawyers were forbidden by a gag order from revealing information about the proceedings