The latest data from the Japanese government shows that the number of people out of work grew by 490 thousand in December compared with a year earlier.
Three people were killed and four others seriously injured when an 18-seater bus on Thursday overturned in Nigeria's southeastern state of Ebonyi, police said.
A more transmissible variant of the coronavirus that was identified in South Africa has been detected for the first time on US soil, officials said Thursday.
US biotech firm Novavax said Thursday its two-shot Covid-19 vaccine showed an overall efficacy of 89.3 percent in a major Phase 3 clinical trial in Britain, and remained highly effective against a variant first identified there.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says schools in England will remain closed until at least early March instead of reopening in mid-February as originally planned.
The Philippines' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized the emergency use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, FDA head Enrique Domingo said on Thursday.
