Singapore has been testing out a "bubble" business hotel that will allow quarantined executives arriving in the country to do face-to-face meetings and even exc
2021-02-24FacebookFacebook will restore Australian news pages after Canberra offered amendments to legislation that would force the tech giant to pay for media content, T
2021-02-24This photo taken and released on Sunday shows Japan's Crown Prince Akishino (in orange robe), flanked by Crown Princess Kiko, attending a ceremony to formally p
2021-02-24Protesters take part in a demonstration against the military upheaval in Mandalay, Myanmar on Monday. Photo: AFPMyanmar's military leaders came under renewed pr
2021-02-24Photo taken on Feb. 3, 2021 shows that Portuguese officials welcome German army medical experts at Figo Maduro military airbase in Lisbon, Portugal. (Photo: Xin
2021-02-24A police officer checks a passer-by in Haarlem, the Netherlands, Jan. 23, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)
In what he called a "calculated risk," demissionary Dutch Prime M
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow on Feb. 23, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)
Russian Presid
Supporters attend a campaign rally of incumbent Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Monday in Gakenke ahead of the August 4 presidential election. Kagame and his R
2021-02-24Former Senegalese Prime Minister Souleymane Ndene Ndiaye is being vaccinated with China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine on Feb. 23, 2021, in Dakar, Senegal.(Photo:
2021-02-24Security guards are seen at the entrance of the City Hall in Yangon, Myanmar, Feb. 2, 2021. (Xinhua/Zhang Dongqiang)Opponents of Myanmar's military upheaval cal
2021-02-23Jane Malysiak, 84, reacts as she becomes the first person in Australia to receive a dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Castle Hill Medical Cent
2021-02-23A man wearing a face mask waits for a bus during the COVID-19 pandemic in Stockholm, capital of Sweden, on Nov. 3, 2020. (Photo: Xinhua)
Sweden last year reco
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo: VCGAustralia will quickly deliver the result of a planned independent inquiry into parliament's workplace cultu
2021-02-23The headquarters building of the European Commission is seen through Christmas decorations at Schuman Square in Brussels, Belgium, Dec. 8, 2020.(Photo: Xinhua)
2021-02-23A woman wearing a face mask walks in central London, Britain, on Feb. 17, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)
A man wearing a face mask walks out of the Vaccination Centre at
Gerda Holzinger-Burgstaller is out to shake up the banking sector: In a world still dominated by men in dark suits, the Austrian wants to break the region's gla
2021-02-23Sudan's central bank sharply devalued the currency on Sunday, announcing a new regime to "unify" official and black-market exchange rates in an effort to overco
2021-02-23Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks after receiving a vaccine at Sheba Medical Center in central Israeli city of Ramat Gan, on Dec. 19, 2020. Netan
2021-02-23Nurse Maddy Williams receives the Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in Canberra, Australia on Feb. 22, 2021. (Photo: Xinhua)
COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in Austral
Japan will only receive limited doses of COVID-19 vaccines for the first months of the rollout and shots for the elderly will be distributed gradually, the coun
2021-02-23The outgoing Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou casts his vote at a polling station in Niamey, Niger, Feb. 21, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)
Voting for the second r
A man wearing a face mask rides a bicycle in downtown Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 9, 2020. Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa declared on Nov. 6 the return
2021-02-22Russia said on Saturday that its scientists had detected the world's first case of transmission of the H5N8 strain of avian flu from birds to humans and had ale
2021-02-22People wearing face masks walk past ambulances at The Royal London Hospital in London, Britain, on Jan. 26, 2021.Photo: XinhuaAll adults in Britain will be offe
2021-02-22Wuhan Institute of Virology file photo:VCG
The Chinese Embassy in Germany expressed strong indignation and called the German media outlet Bild "despicable," af