FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA – The first cruise ship to leave a U.S. port since the coronavirus pandemic brought the industry to a 15-month standstill was preparing to set sail with nearly all vaccinated passengers on board. Celebrity Edge was to depart Fort L…
“Africa is facing a fast-surging third wave of COVID-19 pandemic, with cases spreading more rapidly and projected to soon overtake the peak of the second wave the continent witnessed at the start of 2021,” according to the World Health Organization’s r…
The first doses of the?AstraZeneca?vaccine?arrived?in Ivory Coast in late February.??By March?1, the country started vaccinating people, making it the first in the world to do so through the COVAX initiative, a program?co-led?by?the World Health Organi…
WASHINGTON – Jobless benefit claims eased marginally in the United States last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday.The world’s biggest economy is on a path toward recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, but even so, 411,000 newly laid-off work…
LONDON – Zhang Zhizhen qualified for Wimbledon on Thursday to become the first Chinese man in the Open era to play in the Grand Slam tournament.The 24-year-old defeated Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo 6-0, 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6) in the final round of…
Feeling like you are being watched? It could be from a lot farther away than you think. Astronomers took a technique used to look for life on other planets and flipped it around — so instead of looking to see what’s out there, they tried to see what p…
The U.S. space agency NASA aspires to land humans on the moon every year for 12 consecutive years, Administrator Bill Nelson testified to a congressional committee Wednesday in support of a request to boost the agency’s fiscal 2022 budget.Nelson acknow…
WASHINGTON – The United States will miss President Joe Biden’s goal of having 70% of U.S. adults partially or fully vaccinated against the coronavirus by the July 4 Independence Day holiday, but the White House says it expects to hit that mark “in a fe…
PARIS – A landmark cyberbullying trial in Paris, involving thousands of threats against a teenager who savaged Islam in online posts, is blazing a trail in efforts to punish and prevent online abuse.It has also raised uncomfortable questions about free…