Malta has vaccinated 70% of its adult population with at least one COVID-19 shot, becoming the first European Union country to achieve so-called herd immunity, Health Minister Chris Fearne said on Monday. The tiny Mediterranean island has had an average of three new virus cases each day in the past week, with the test positivity rate at a low of …

NEW DELHI: Indian police said on Monday they visited a Twitter office to serve notice to its country managing director about an investigation into the social media giant’s tagging of a post by a ruling party spokesman as “manipulated media”. Leaders of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party last week shared portions of a document on Twitter they said …

NEW DELHI: Two-time Olympic wrestling medallist Sushil Kumar was arrested on Sunday in connection with the murder of a fellow Indian wrestler after a week-long manhunt, Delhi police said. Kumar went into hiding after 24-year-old Sagar Dhankad was badly beaten during a brawl between two groups of wrestlers outside Delhi’s Chhatrasal Stadium on May 4. Dhankad, a former junior champion …

MONACO: Max Verstappen won the Monaco Grand Prix for the first time to take the Formula One championship lead from Lewis Hamilton on Sunday, while pole-sitter Charles Leclerc pulled out just before the race started. The 23-year-old Dutch driver started the day 14 points behind Mercedes’ seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton and ended it four clear. Hamilton finished seventh on …

MILAN: Claudio Ranieri brought the curtain down on his coaching career with Sampdoria on Saturday with a 3-0 win over Parma. Italian forward Fabio Quagliarella marked his 500th Serie A appearance with the opening goal against relegated Parma who will finish the season bottom of the table. Ranieri, 69, announced on Friday that this will be his final match with …

GENEVA: Third seed Casper Ruud warmed up for the French Open by claiming his second career title on the ATP Tour after beating Denis Shapovalov 7-6 (8-6), 6-4 in the final of the claycourt Geneva Open on Saturday. Norwegian Ruud did not concede a single break point to the Canadian second seed to prevail in the battle of the 22-year-olds …

LOS ANGELES: Four-time Olympic gymnastics champion Simone Biles became the first woman to land a Yurchenko double pike vault in competition at the US Classic in Indianapolis on Saturday, while winning the all-around title in her first meet since October 2019. Biles, who last competed at the 2019 World Championships, had an all-around score of 58.4 points and finished ahead …

The PTI government in Punjab is working on comprehensive developmental action to shift its economy into a higher gear during the last two years of its rule in the province, claims its finance minister Makhdum Hashim Jawan Bakht. “We are preparing a growth-centric budget for the next fiscal year,” Mr Hashim said in an interview with this correspondent. “This year …

In early 2020, as a new deadly coronavirus began spreading around the world, Pfizer Inc assembled what it called a SWAT team of scientists and chemists to identify a potential treatment to fight Covid-19. The US pharmaceutical giant, which had begun exploring a vaccine, also wanted to produce a pill that could stop the infection from progressing, similar to how …

The annoyed shopper paced around and knocked on the windows of a minivan blocking him from leaving his Costco parking spot. He didn’t seem to notice, or care, that there was no one inside. A colleague and I had called for the Waymo ride — our first in a fully driverless vehicle and quickly encountered a hiccup: figuring out how …