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BEIJING, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese health experts have urged the public to get a booster shot for COVID-19 to protect against the Omicron variant.

As of 2 p.m. Wednesday, a total of 137 people had tested positive for COVID-19 in

While the world has celebrated the arrival of highly effective vaccines against COVID-19, new work by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and the University of Oxford shows that even unrelated vaccines could help reduce the burden of the pandemic. The study, published Jan. 10 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, crystallizes decades of evidence […]

MANCHESTER UNITED are keen to sign Brighton right-back Tariq Lamptey – but are £10million off the Seagulls’ asking price, according to reports. Ralf Rangnick has rotated Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Diogo Dalot since taking over from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. But neither has impressed the German, with the £50m ex-Crystal Palace star lacking the attacking prowess required […]

A new study into the Local Bubble, a cosmic void surrounding Earth, has mapped out the star-forming regions on the bubble's surface and uncovered more information about its explosive birth.

1. Earth is at the center of a 1000-light-year-wide 'Swiss cheese' bubble carved out by supernovas  Livescience.com
2. The Solar System Exists Inside a Giant, Mysterious Void, And We Finally Know Why  ScienceAlert
3. Earth Is Surrounded by a 1,000-Light-Year-Wide Bubble That Cooks Up Stars  Gizmodo
4. Vast Cosmic Bubble Around the Sun Identified as Source of Baby Stars  The Wall Street Journal
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"I still have something boiling in my stomach that's why I am looking forward to it (racing in Paris)," Kipchoge said at a virtual media conference from his training ground in Kenya. Besides Kipchoge, only Abebe Bikila (1960, 1964) and Waldemar Cierpinski (1976, 1980) have won consecutive Olympic marathon titles. The 37-year-old Kenyan, who won back-to-back titles at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics in Rio and Tokyo, also Wednesday signed a new sponsorship deal with British chemicals giant Ineos to prepare for the Games. Читать дальше...

NANJING, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province, on Wednesday.

JERUSALEM, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Israeli basketball Super League club Maccabi Rishon LeZion has signed former NBA player Anthony Brown, the club announced on Wednesday.

NAIROBI, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's Paralympic committee said Wednesday it would hold its Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Para Games pre-qualifiers on Thursday in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

BEIJING, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Beijing 2022 venues, villages and services have received positive feedback as Games participants begin to arrive.

MOGADISHU -- At least ten people including five soldiers were killed and nine others wounded in a suicide car bombing in the Somali capital, Mogadishu on Wednesday, officials said.

SHANGHAI, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- China's national men's football team on Wednesday began a training camp in Shanghai's Century Park ahead of FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Japan and Vietnam.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- U.S. consumer prices in December continued to rise at the fastest annual pace in almost 40 years, which could push the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates earlier, the U.S. Labor Department reported on Wednesday.

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"A multifold increase in daily sick calls as well as a series of winter storms have led to mass cancellation of flights," said a recent Reuters report.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- The highly contagious Omicron

Over the last five years or so, arch-rivals Man City and Manchester United have witnessed contrasting fortunes. While Pep Guardiola's men have dominated English football by winning the Premier League titles in 2018, 2019, and 2021, the Red Devils have experienced a continuous slide on the field.

Experts do not see MPC winding up easy liquidity soon

The Delhi Police force comprises over 80,000 personnel

MONICA ALDAMA is an American cheerleading coach best known for appearing on Netflix's documentary "Cheer".

Scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot have managed to witness the explosion of a massive Wolf-Rayet star, a hypothetical supernova that should have been impossible.

HARBIN, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- "I cherish every minute and second on the ice, even when I fall down."

In Heilongjiang, a province in the far northeast of China, many have developed enthusiasm for ice and snow since young. The upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics have given a further boost for their passion.

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Sequel to the announcement of its debut technology event coming up in February 2022 in Saudi Arabia, startups from around the world is being invited to win a share of a USD $600,000 prize fund at the Rocket Fuel Start-up Pitch Competition as part of the LEAP technology mega-event and to pitch their businesses to […]

The Biden administration announced a plan Wednesday to increase COVID-19 tests for schools by 10 million per month to help keep them open for in-person learning amid the omicron surge.  The White House said the administration would send 5 million free rapid tests to K-12 schools each month. The additional tests seek to help support […]

The government must merge BSNL, BBNL and Vi

JOHANNESBURG, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- At least 17 people have been killed in a head-on collision between a minibus taxi and a Toyota SUV on the N1 highway near Mookgophong off-ramp, said Limpopo Transport and Community Safety Department on Wednesday.