The self-governing island, which has had striking success with the virus, ramped up restrictions in Taipei after reporting 180 locally transmitted infections.

Two scientific findings altered the calculus: Vaccinated people don’t transmit the virus, and the shots are effective against variants.

He was a torchbearer for the celestial navigation art known as wayfinding, which ancestral Polynesian sailors used to navigate the Pacific Ocean.

The final shutdown of Greyhound bus service in Canada will add to a growing accessibility problem for rural communities.

British officials are considering targeted vaccinations and renewed restrictions after the number of cases of the variant tripled in just over a week.

The cluster of cases suggested the ability of a “very virulent” coronavirus variant to evade inoculations, officials said. But none of the infections are believed to have caused serious illness or death.

Hundreds of Palestinians woke up to destruction on Friday morning after Israel bombed parts of the Gaza Strip.

The inquiry will focus a spotlight on a steel magnate and a financier whose business collapse has provoked a scandal in Britain.

Before the protesters could reach the demarcation line, however, the riot police blocked their path.