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Joe Biden offers hope amid Covid as Thanksgiving celebrations are scaled back

Tearful Danish PM apologises for botched handling of Covid mink crisis

AstraZeneca says more research needed on its Covid vaccine

Austria and Switzerland thwart German attempts to bring in Christmas ski ban

What's in store for investors in 2021?

Coronavirus: UAE records 1,305 new cases and 826 recoveries

Brighton, Chelsea, Liverpool and West Ham can be first to welcome fans back in stadiums
FILE PHOTO: Vials with a sticker reading, "COVID-19 / Coronavirus vaccine / Injection only" and a medical syringe are seen in front of a displayed AstraZeneca logo in this illustration taken October 31, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

AstraZeneca to conduct extra trial of vaccine
Covid-19 and vaccination concept.

The dilemma we face: who should get the Covid-19 vaccine first?
The Hope Consortium will store and distribute Covid-19 vaccines across the world. Courtesy: Hope Consortium

Abu Dhabi logistics hub to distribute Covid-19 vaccines worldwide
Leading Sudanese opposition figure Sadiq Al Mahdi, Sudan's last democratically elected prime minister, who was overthrown in 1989 in a bloodless coup by army officer Omar Al Bashir, talks during an interview with Reuters in Khartoum, Sudan in 2019. Reuters

Sudan's last elected prime minister dies from coronavirus in UAE

The spread of coronavirus

 
New Yorkers Vern Calhoun (left) and Andrew Chandler (centre) outside the Met museum this week. James Reinl for The National

New Yorkers describe a city changed by Covid-19
A demonstrator wears a white mask during a protest against the government's coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions, near the Reichstag, the seat of Germany's lower house of parliament Bundestag, in Berlin, November, 18, 2020. REUTERS/Christian Mang

Police fire water cannons at people protesting in Berlin against Covid-19 rules
Covid-19 has disrupted transportation and mobility. Antonie Robertson / The National

What mobility looks like post Covid-19
People exercise in Green Park in central London on November 8, 2020 during a second national lockdown designed to contain soaring infections of the novel coronavirus. / AFP / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS

Why England isn’t staying locked down during lockdown 2
Professor Robert Dingwall says getting outside - in a Covid-safe way - would be helpful. Courtesy Professor Robert Dingwall

Expert tactics to help you thrive during lockdown
The white Kashmiri goats were spotted in Llandudno town centre in March after the UK went into lockdown to curb the coronavirus, and around 150 wild goats said to be in the Great Orme headland, overlooking the Welsh town. Getty Images

Covid lockdown goats help hospice raise $155,000
Hundreds of triathletes welcomed the opportunity to return to competition on Friday. Courtesy: Race ME

Masks and medals as triathlon season gets under way in Dubai
An archaeology worker opens a sarcophagus at the Saqqara archaeological site, 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt, on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020, in the presence of journalists and officials. Egypt’s ministry of antiquities and tourism says at least 59 sealed sarcophagi with mummies inside were found that had been buried in three wells more than 2,600 years ago. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Khaled)

Why curse of the pharaohs or Covid won’t slow Egypt’s archaeologists
Members of staff working on a car assembly line at the Vauxhall car factory in Ellesmere Port, UK. The decline in car production means 24,490 fewer vehicles were made in October than in the same month last year. Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images

British car production falls 18.2% year-on-year in Covid slump
Medical staff members work in the nursing station at the United Memorial Medical Centre in Houston, Texas. Numbers on the wall indicate the days since the hospital opened its Covid-19 intensive care unit. Getty Images/AFP

US Covid-19 deaths rise by 2,500 in 24 hours
Britain's Chief Medical Officer Professor Chris Whitty speaks during a news conference on the ongoing situation with the coronavirus, at Downing Street, in London, Britain November 26, 2020.   REUTERS

Don't hug your relatives at Christmas, Britons told
Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, met Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Minister of External Affairs of India, in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. Rashed Al Mansoori / Ministry of Presidential Affairs 

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed meets Indian Minister of External Affairs
People walk at a local market as few of them wear protective face masks amid the coronavirus pandemic in Cairo, Egypt November 23, 2020. Reuters

Cairo hit hard by resurgent coronavirus in Egypt
Covid certificates could be used to help ease travel restrictions. AFP

UK government in talks with banknote printer over Covid passports
Angela Merkel in talks with state premiers over whether to extend lockdown. EPA

Germany extends lockdown as daily Covid deaths hit record high
The extent of Covid damage on Britain’s economy was laid bare on Wednesday, as British finance editor Rishi Sunak outlined his spending review. EPA

The staggering numbers revealed in Britain's spending review
Italy is calling for a blanket ban on holidays in the Alps over Christmas. AFP

Italy calls for ban on Alpine skiing over Christmas
Sally Llewellyn, regional security director at International SOS, said they had predicted that mental health would be a big risk factor in 2020. Courtesy: International Sos

Covid-19 pandemic has caused a mental health 'tsunami'
The announcement of the UK's Christmas Covid rules has led to many questions being asked. Getty

Can I hug my family? How the UK’s Christmas bubble will work
Karen Simeson is the first patient to receive the AstraZeneca Covid-19 antibody treatment. Courtesy The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

British nurse first in world to receive Covid antibody cocktail
An lifeguard at The Meydan Hotel wears a mask on to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Chris Whiteoak / The National

UAE records 1,297 Covid-19 cases
British Airways has announced that it is selling memorabilia from retired 747 fleet.  Courtesy BA 

Feel 38,000 feet high at home: British Airways sells accessories from planes
Photographer Ramesh Shukla at his home in Dubai. Antonie Robertson / The National

How residents are preparing to enjoy National Day after a tough year
Thousands of people have received a Covid-19 vaccination as part of clinical trials held in Abu Dhabi. Wam

Abu Dhabi to axe 14-day quarantine for vaccinated airline passengers
Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation operation met his Slovakian counterpart, Ivan Korcok, on Tuesday. Wam

UAE and Slovakian foreign ministers in al fresco meeting
King Abdullah II inaugurates a field hospital on the premises of the Royal Medical Services’ Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein Hospital in Zarqa Governorate. Courtesy The Royal Hashemite Court

Jordan’s king lends high profile to combat coronavirus surge
England will reenter its tier system after lockdown ends. Getty Images

How England's tier system will work
Coronavirus rules will be relaxed over the holiday season with three households allowed to mix over five days. EPA

UK Christmas bubble allows three households to mix to stop ‘free for all’
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