LOS EBANOS, TEXAS: The U.S. government has been trying to take Pamela Rivas' land for a border wall since before Joe Biden was vice president.

MIAMI (AP) — Brad Six becomes Santa Claus, pulling his black boots over his red pants in the office of a Miami outdoor supply company.

BOSTON: IBM security researchers say they have detected a cyberespionage effort using targeted phishing emails to try to collect vital information on the World Health Organization's initiative for distributing COVID-19 vaccine to developing countries.

Four people died when a chemical tank exploded at a waste water treatment plant.

The Trump administration on Wednesday issued new rules to curtail travel to the United States by members of the Chinese Communist Party and their immediate families, a move certain to further exacerbate tensions between the two countries.

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government will provide the coronavirus vaccine free of cost to its people and plans are afoot to start the immunisation drive by April next year, officials said on Thursday.

Washington, Dec 3: US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Thursday named her Chief of Staff, Domestic Policy Advisor and National Security Advisor, an all-women team, which she said has the experience to hit the ground from day one.

United Nations, Dec 3: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday warned that a COVID-19 vaccine cannot undo the damage that will stretch for decades to come, underlining that long-term fragilities, inequalities and injustices have been exposed by the pandemic and it is now "time to reset".

BEIJING: China on Thursday played down its plan to build a major dam in the lower reaches of the Brahmaputra river in Tibet, saying there is no need to have "any anxiety” over the project and Beijing will continue to have "good communication" with lower riparian states - India and Bangladesh.

CAPE CANAVERAL: A mysterious object temporarily orbiting Earth is a 54-year-old rocket, not an asteroid after all, astronomers confirmed Wednesday.