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These "nanobodies" identified by an international team led by the University of Bonn in Germany are smaller than classic antibodies.

China posted its biggest daily jump in COVID cases in more than five months on Wednesday, stepping up containment measures that have seen four cities put under lockdown, as the world's second biggest economy scrambles to head off a new wave of infections.

New Zealand police arrested a man who smashed the glass doors of the parliament with an axe on Wednesday, although he did not attempt to enter the building.

Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia has cut supplies of Februaryloading crude by 10% for at least two Asian buyers while meeting requirements of at least three others, several refinery and trade sources with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.

Coronavirusinduced lockdowns caused annual traffic congestion to fall in most countries for the first time in at least 10 years, disrupting longheld traffic patterns like the dreaded morning commute to work, a report released on Tuesday showed.

If the government fails, she may escape execution, as President-elect Joe Biden, who will be sworn in on January 20, is an opponent of capital punishment and has promised reforms.

The U.S. counterintelligence chief said on Tuesday he was worried about threats from China and Russia to disrupt the coronavirus vaccine supply chain in the United States.

A federal judge in Indiana blocked Tuesday's scheduled execution of convicted murderer Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row in the United States, to allow a hearing on whether she is too mentally ill to be put to death.

The system which provides 3D mapping with centimetre level accuracy will contribute to the infrastructure construction as well as combat capability enhancement of Chinese forces in the region, state-run Global Times reported.

An Irish inquiry into homes for unwed mothers that the Catholic Church ran from 1922 to 1998 found an "appalling level of infant mortality" with some 9,000 children dying in the socalled Mother and Baby Homes.

Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE had produced over 70 million doses of their COVID19 vaccine by the end of 2020, Chief Executive Albert Bourla said in an interview on CNBC on Tuesday.

Trudeau's hand was forced when Innovations Minister Navdeep Bains, 43, unexpectedly announced he was resigning from politics for family reasons.

Ukrainian pharmaceutical company Lekhim plans to deliver 5 million doses of China's Sinovac COVID19 vaccine to Ukraine in the first half of 2021, the company told Reuters on Tuesday.

Sweden has registered 17,395 new coronavirus cases since Friday, taking the total above 500,000 cases since the start of the pandemic, Health Agency statistics showed on Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump will visit the U.S.Mexico border on Tuesday just a week before he is due to leave office to tout what he views as one of his biggest accomplishments: the partial construction of a wall along the U.S.Mexico border.

The European Commission plans to conclude this week preliminary talks with French company Valneva over the advance purchase of its COVID19 vaccine candidate, EU top negotiator Sandra Gallina told lawmakers on Tuesday.