HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Firefighters are on the scene of a fire in the downtown Houston area. A two-alarm fire broke out at apartments on Crawford Street a little after 10 a.m. Monday. The building is located near Minute Maid Park. From SkyEye, firefighters can be seen on the roof of the building. There are no reports of any injuries. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Houston, get those credit cards ready. Tickets for the 40th Anniversary Nutcracker Market – The Redo went on sale Monday morning at a discounted price. Typically, shoppers would pay $20, but as of 10 a.m., tickets are going for $18 on Ticketmaster. Discount general admission tickets will also go on sale at H-E-B Business Centers starting Monday, Oct. 11. …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A woman pulled from a burning home in north Houston died from serious injuries Monday morning, firefighters said. The Houston Fire Department responded to the fire in the area of Pointer and Crosstimbers streets at about 9 a.m. According to HFD, heavy fire was coming from the home where an elderly woman was inside at the …

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Three women were taken to the hospital after a car crashed into Brays Bayou in southwest Houston Monday morning. Video from the scene shows the car upside down in the water. Gabriel Moncada, a witness at the scene, ran down to the bayou when he heard the crash. He said two of the women involved were …

Australia’s biggest city of Sydney recorded its deadliest day of the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday as troops and police set up roadblocks to limit the movement of people, while Melbourne faced a nightly curfew and a further two weeks of lockdown. Sydney, which is in its eighth week of lockdown, is the epicentre of Australia’s third COVID-19 wave that threatens …

Alison Toni felt lucky to get Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine in Chile earlier this year. A month later, she was in Minnesota getting vaccinated again. Toni, an American living in Chile, was visiting her parents in Minneapolis in April when she got her first Pfizer shot at a CVS pharmacy. She traveled back for the second dose in June. She did …

ISLAMABAD: Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Health, Dr Faisal Sultan, said Monday that the Covid-19 situation has improved in Karachi as the number of daily coronavirus cases continued to decline in the provincial capital of Sindh. The spread of the coronavirus Delta variant reached alarming levels in Karachi, as public and some private sector hospitals ran out …

GlaxoSmithKline and CureVac said a study on macaque monkeys showed their jointly-developed mRNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate to be “strongly improved” in protecting against the virus compared with CureVac’s first attempt. The encouraging news on its “second-generation” vaccine gave CureVac’s German-listed shares an 8% lift, as the stock gradually recovers from a slump in June when the German biotech company’s first …

SYDNEY: Australia’s scheduled One-day Inter­national series against Afghanistan in India has been postponed, the cricket boards of the competing countries said on Sunday, leaving players free to fulfil their Indian Premier League (IPL) commitments. The three one-dayers were supposed to take place ahead of the Twenty20 World Cup but that tournament has now been moved to the United Arab Emirates …