Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is up to four times more likely to cause inflammation of the heart muscle, a very rare side effect, than its rival vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech, , according to a Danish study published in the British Medical Journal late on Thursday. The study, in which almost 85% of Danes, or 4.9 million individuals, aged 12 and older participated, …

The Biden administration on Friday recommended Alphabet’s Google and Facebook parent Meta get permission to use an undersea cable system to handle growing internet traffic with Asia. The administration urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to grant licenses for the companies to send and receive data on the existing 8,000-mile Pacific Light Cable Network. The undersea fiber-optic cable system connects …

Good news for die-hard foodies as TikTok has announced that it will open 300 ghost kitchen restaurant concept based on its most viral food dishes. The short video-sharing platform announced that it is partnering with Virtual Dining Concepts to launch a delivery-based foodservice chain from March 2022. Titled “TikTok Kitchens,” the venture is intended to bring TikTok-famous foods to its …

LONDON: The Premier League lost another match to a Covid-19 outbreak in a squad when Aston Villa’s home game against Burnley was postponed around two hours before kickoff on Saturday. Villa said it did not have enough players to field a team following more positive tests in its squad that were reported early Saturday. The league approved Villa’s request to …

ISLAMABAD: Nasir Iqbal, Pakistan’s only hope in the men’s event of the 21st Asian Individual Squash Championship, fell to Yip Tsz Fung of Hong Kong in the semi-final after retiring here at the Mushaf Squash Complex on Saturday. Yip downed Nasir 11-6, 11-4, 3-1 in a one-sided 29-minute battle. Ng Eain Yow of Malaysia outplayed Hong Kong’s Lau Tsz Kwan …

LAHORE: Rana Abdul Waheed scored twice, including a 57th-minute leveller, to help Pakistan hold South Korea to a 3-3 draw in their round-robin match of the Asian Champions Trophy in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Saturday. Man-of-the-match Afraz’s 24th-minute goal cancelled out Kim Kyu-beom’s opener for South Korea 10 minutes earlier before Wahid put Pakistan in front in the 33rd. The Koreans, …

ADELAIDE: England were staring down the barrel of another sorry defeat on Saturday, dismissed for 236 then forced to watch as Australia batted again and stretched their lead in the day-night second Ashes Test in Adelaide. Joe Root and Dawid Malan had survived the opening session of day three unscathed, building a 128-run stand as they chased Australia’s imposing first-innings …

India opener KL Rahul has been named vice-captain for the three-match Test series against South Africa after Rohit Sharma was ruled out of the tour due to injury, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said on Saturday. The 29-year-old is returning to the Test side after missing the series win against New Zealand at home due to a muscle strain. “The …

LAHORE: The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) has asked the Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) to allow it to spend Rs46.525 billion for execution of several development schemes, including 300,000 new gas connections to domestic consumers during the ongoing fiscal year (FY22) ending on June 30, 2022. The SNGPL has also sought permission for executing two mega projects …