CHICAGO: New government rules that halve the isolation period for asymptomatic coronavirus infections lack safeguards that could result in even more infections as the United States faces a record surge driven by the Omicron variant, disease experts said. This week the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reduced the […]
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STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s Northvolt said on Wednesday its new gigafactory in northern Sweden has assembled its first battery cell, making it the first European company to design and manufacture a battery on the continent. The cell is of a prismatic cell format – a variety of thinner and lighter battery – […]
All 18 wickets fall to fast bowlers on Day 3, as India gain hefty advantage over SA in first Test. Pure fast bowling is pure thrill. Bowlers howling in, the ball bursting out of their palms, bristling off the deck past the startled eyes of batsmen and smacking into the […]
LONDON: Paris Hilton commands as much as US$1 million (RM4.2 million) a night working as a celebrity DJ, entertaining partiers at clubs in China, Dubai and on the Spanish vacation island of Ibiza. This New Year’s Eve, she will be playing an electronic set for the revellers who drop by […]
BEIJING : China aims to cut energy consumption of steel by 2per cent, and to lower carbon emissions in the aluminium sector by 5per cent by 2025, the country’s industry ministry said in a raw materials development plan on Wednesday. The country will also strengthen the exploration of domestic iron […]
Liverpool has lost 1-0 to Leicester in a big blow to the team’s chances of winning the Premier League title. Losses for Liverpool are about as rare as penalty misses by Mohamed Salah. Both happened on Tuesday and, even at the halfway stage of the season, it could cost Jurgen […]
KUALA LUMPUR: The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold series is currently the benchmark for foldable devices and we’ve seen smartphone makers such as Huawei, Xiaomi and Oppo taking a shot at the phone-to-tablet form factor. The latest contender in the space is Honor and they are about to release their very […]
Several US states have reported increases of about 50% in pediatric admissions for Covid-19 in December. New York City has experienced the most dramatic rise, with 68 children hospitalized last week, a fourfold jump from two weeks earlier. The latest coronavirus surge sweeping the United States, much of it driven […]
The first known case in the United States identified on Dec 1, in a fully vaccinated person who had traveled to South Africa. The Omicron variant was estimated to be 58.6% of the coronavirus variants circulating in the United States as of Dec 25, according to the data from the […]
BEIJING: A lockdown of 13 million people in the Chinese city of Xian entered its seventh day today, with many unable to leave their homes and virtually dependent on deliveries of necessities as new Covid-19 infections persisted. Xian reported 151 domestically transmitted infections with confirmed symptoms for yesterday, or nearly […]