Airlines look to tests that give instant results
VIENNA: A health worker in protective clothes holds a COVID-19 antigen test yesterday. - AFP
ZURICH/MILAN: European airlines...
Filipino nurses find English tests too daunting
MANILA: Bracing for life after Brexit, British hospitals badly need more nurses like Filipino Jobie Escalona, but she twice flunked a mandatory...
Xi visits Wuhan, says tide turning against epidemic
WUHAN: Chinese President Xi Jinping wears a mask as he waves to a coronavirus patient and medical staff via video link...
North Koreans survive by paying bribes
Pyongyang blames sanctions for dire humanitarian situation
GENEVA: North Koreans are forced to pay bribes to officials to survive...
Mass burial for scores killed in mine disaster
HPAKANT: Volunteers bury bodies of miners in a mass grave while relatives look on during a funeral ceremony near Hpakant in...
The three women hoping to upset Modi at the polls
SILIGURI: Chief minister of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee...
Quarantine hotel collapse, kills 10
ZAYTON: Rescuers search for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed hotel in Quanzhou, in China's eastern Fujian province. - AFP...
S Korea coronavirus cases jump after call centre outbreak
SEOUL: A worker wearing protective gear sprays disinfectant on the street to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, near...
‘Buddhism under threat’: Thailand election gives platform to radicals
Politics marks a new trend in traditionally tolerant Thailand
BANGKOK: Royal Thai Army Commander in Chief Apirat Kongsompong...
Indonesia’s Aceh province whips 11 for sharia-banned romance
Buddhist man receives more than two dozen lashes
BANDA ACEH: One woman begged for mercy and another sobbed uncontrollably...
Kuwait receives third of total annual rainfall in one day
KUWAIT: Kuwait received more than a third of its total average annual rainfall overnight Monday to Tuesday as a result of torrential rains. The...
Xi warns of ‘grave’ situation as China rushes to build hospitals
WUHAN, China: Medical staff members wearing protective clothing to help stop the spread of a deadly virus which began in the...
