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More Americans were hospitalized with COVID19 on Wednesday than at any time since the pandemic began, as total coronavirus infections crossed the 21 million mark, deaths soared across much of the United States and a historic vaccination effort lagged.

Britain and other nations are considering ways to stretch scarce supplies of COVID19 vaccines, including by delaying second doses, reducing dose sizes and switching vaccine types between the first and second shots.

The delay by China to finalise the WHO team's arrival is fuelling concern that Beijing is obstructing global efforts to trace the origins of COVID-19, which has so far killed over 1,870,800 people worldwide after the disease broke out in central China's W...

The four nations of the United Kingdom recorded 1,041 deaths within 28 days of a positive test for the virus on Wednesday and a further 62,322 new COVID-19 cases, according to official data.

The deepvoiced Baptist pastor who now holds the pulpit where slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. preached made history in his uphill battle to unseat a sitting Republican to become the first Black U.S. Senator from Georgia.

The European Union (EU) has conducted a monthslong shopping spree to secure vaccines to battle the COVID19 pandemic.

Frustration over the slow rollout of COVID19 vaccines has sparked tensions within the European Union, echoing disarray within the bloc at the beginning of the pandemic over sharing of protective medical equipment and the closure of borders.

A South Korean delegation is heading to Iran on Wednesday to seek the release of a chemicals tanker and its 20member crew seized in Gulf waters by Iranian forces, Yonhap news agency reported.

For the first time since the Zach Parise-Ryan Suter era began eight seasons ago, the Minnesota Wild have made major changes to the roster.

The European Union is in talks with Pfizer and BioNTech over ordering up to 100 million more doses of their COVID19 vaccine, three sources close to the matter said on Tuesday, as European governments battle to speed up immunisations.

The Dutch government was caught off guard by the approval of the PfizerBioNTech vaccine by EU regulators in December and has been unable to start vaccinating due to logistical problems, Prime Minister Mark Rutte told parliament on Tuesday.

An Israeli security officer shot a Palestinian who threw a knife towards him in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israel's military said, and Palestinian officials said the man had been killed.

There will be no crying in the chapel this year.

The European Commission said on Tuesday it regretted that Iran has resumed 20% uranium enrichment at an underground nuclear facility, breaching a 2015 nuclear pact, but believed that the accord was worth saving.

Britain began inoculating its citizens with the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID19 vaccine on Monday, giving the shot to Brian Pinker, an 82yearold dialysis patient, at a hospital a few hundred metres away from where the vaccine was developed.

South Korea is reviewing AstraZeneca's request for approval of its coronavirus vaccine, as it expands a ban on private gatherings of more than four people to the whole country with daily cases topping more than 1,000 in four days.