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Covid-19 vaccine: Joe Biden vows 100 million shots in first 100 days

Biden has promised to distribute a coronavirus vaccine to 100 million people during the first three months of his incoming administration, pledging 100 million shots in the first 100 days

Breakdance becomes an official Olympic sport, to debut at 2024 Paris Games

Breakdancing will be called breaking at the Olympics, as it was in the 1970s by hip-hop pioneers in the United States

SpaceX aborts its test flight of Mars rocket Starship at last second

The first high-altitude test flight of SpaceX's futuristic Starship was aborted at the last second in Texas

US House approves defense policy bill even as Trump threatens to veto

The Democratic-controlled House has approved a wide-ranging defence policy bill, even as Trump renewed his threat to veto the bill unless lawmakers clamp down on social media companies

Biden vows to reopen most schools in US after first 100 days as President

Joe Biden has pledged to bring the coronavirus pandemic under enough control to open most of the nation's schools during his first 100 days as president

Russia to establish navy base in Sudan for at least 25 years, govt says

Russia has signed an agreement with Sudan to establish a navy base in the African nation for at least a quarter century, part of Moscow's efforts to expand its global reach

Another judge blocks Donald Trump's TikTok ban; app still in limbo

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump's attempts to ban TikTok, the latest legal defeat for the administration as it tries to wrest the popular app from its Chinese owners

Trump advisor broke law during election with Biden criticism: US watchdog

A federal watchdog agency has reported that one of Trump's economic advisors repeatedly violated the law during the campaign season with his criticisms of Joe Biden, now the president-elect

Mexico asks US to extradite its ex-security chief arrested in December

Mexico has confirmed that it has asked the United States to extradite former security chief Genaro Garcia Luna, who currently faces trial in the US for allegedly protecting a drug gang.

WEF to be held in Singapore next year instead of Davos due to Covid-19

Organisers of the annual World Economic Forum event in Davos, Switzerland, have again changed their planned venue for next year's edition, announcing it will now take place in Singapore in May

Canada to get up to 250,000 doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine by Dec end: PM

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday Canada will get up to 250,000 doses of the vaccine developed by American drugmaker Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech before the end of December.

US says Covid-19 relief package won't offer $1,200 in direct payments

US lawmakers closed in on a Covid-19 relief bill that would provide roughly $300 in extra federal weekly unemployment benefits but not another round of $1,200 in direct payments to most Americans

Provincial govts in China demand Covid-19 vaccine as production ramps up

Provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made Covid-19 vaccines, though officials have yet to say how they may reach the country's 1.4 billion people

Indonesia gets 1.2 million doses of China's Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine

Indonesia's government said 1.2 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by China-based biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech has arrived in the country

Peter Alliss, the 'Voice of Golf' on British television, dies at 89

"Peter''s death was unexpected but peaceful," the family said in a statement through the BBC, where he worked. It did not provide a cause of death

Chinese probe Chang'e-5 prepares to return moon rock samples to Earth

A capsule carrying the rock samples is due to land in China's northern grasslands in the Inner Mongolia region in mid-December

China speeds testing as Beijing preps large-scale Covid vaccine rollout

China's fledgling pharmaceutical industry has at least five vaccines from four producers being tested in more than a dozen countries including Russia, Egypt and Mexico

Microwave radiation behind illness of US diplomats in Cuba, China: Report

The study commissioned by the State Department and released Saturday is the latest attempt to find a cause for the mysterious illnesses that started to emerge in late 2016 among US personnel in Havana

Covid-19 cases continue rising in US during holiday season, sets new record

The seven-day rolling average of Covid-19 attributable deaths in the U.S. passed 2,000 for the first time since spring, rising to 2,011

Japan's Hayabusa-2 capsule returns to Earth with pristine asteroid samples

About two hours after the capsule''s reentry, JAXA said its helicopter search team found the capsule in the planned landing area