BEIJING: China’s Baidu is considering making its own electric vehicles and has held talks with automakers about the possibility, three people with knowledge of the matter said, the latest move in a race among tech firms to develop smart cars. The search-engine leader, which also develops autonomous driving technology and internet connectivity infrastructure, is considering contract manufacturing, one of the …

Antibodies are supposed to attack invading germs, but severely ill COVID-19 patients have so-called autoantibodies that mistakenly attack not just their own tissues and organs but even virus-fighting proteins produced by the immune system, new research shows. Scientists studied 194 COVID-19 patients, including 55 with severe disease, plus a control group of 30 people without the virus. In the sickest …

DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s health ministry has begun registering citizens and foreign residents for vaccination against COVID-19, the state news agency reported on Tuesday. Health authorities in Saudi Arabia had registered the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for import and use in the country, state news agency SPA had said on Thursday. Saudi Arabia’s Food and Drug Agency registered the vaccine. Procedures necessary …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has recorded 73 deaths and 2,459 new cases due to the COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. In the past 24 hours, 73 more people succumbed to the disease, taking the death toll to 8,905. The total count of active cases is 48,008, whereas, Overall 386,033 people have recovered from the deadly disease so far.

Trained dogs can identify people with COVID-19, even those with no symptoms, according to researchers. In the preliminary study published on Thursday in PLoS One. Dogs who sniffed swab samples of armpit sweat could tell which samples came from COVID-19 patients and which were from people who tested negative for the new coronavirus. That study was conducted in March. More …

da ISLAMABAD: Batting legend Javed Miandad believes Babar Azam’s absence should not haunt Pakistan in the Twenty20 series against New Zealand, saying every player who gets a chance should have the confidence to perform for the team. Right-handed Babar has been ruled out of the New Zealand T20s after suffering a fracture in his right thumb during Sunday practice session. …

KARACHI: In perhaps one of the worst fielding performances seen in living memory, bottom-placed Sindh put up a horrendous show against Northern on day one of their eighth-round Quaid-e-Azam Trophy fixture here at the National Stadium on Monday. In the other two games, batsmen were on top as Kamran Ghulam continued his Bradmanesque-like form with yet another century for table-toppers …

WELLINGTON: New Zealand stand-in captain Tom Latham said on Monday their sole focus was the upcoming Test series against Pakistan despite their 2-0 sweep of West Indies putting them in contention for a place in next year’s World Test Championship (WTC) final. New Zealand moved into third place in the table for the World Test Championship when they completed an …

ISLAMABAD: The quantum of smuggled goods in to the country decreased during the first five months of the current fiscal year as data reported by the Pakistan Customs showed higher collection of duties and taxes. Formal imports of five commodities — prone to smuggling — through legal channels increased by over 55 per cent, latest data showed. In Pakistan, illegal …

WELLINGTON: New Zealand shot to the top of the world Test rankings on Monday when they thrashed the West Indies by an innings and 12 runs to wrap up an emphatic series win at Basin Reserve in Wellington. It lifted the Black Caps to 116 points, equal with Australia at the head of the rankings table, and also extended their …