The #WHO and pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer announced a deal for up to 40 million initial doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech #Covid-19 vaccine for poorer countries, through #COVAX global pool
#UPDATE News that the new #coronavirus strain first identified in southeast England in September could be deadlier as well as more transmissible came as the UK sees record #Covid-19 deaths
#UPDATE#PresidentJoeBiden ordered more help for Americans struggling to cope with the #coronavirus pandemic in the world's worst-hit country, as international deals won cheaper tests and #vaccines for millions in less wealthy nations
#BREAKING Brady, Buccaneers stun Packers 31-26 to reach Super Bowl
#UPDATES Tom Brady throws for three touchdowns and 280 passing yards and now advances to a record 10th Super Bowl appearance as a late Packers fightback against Tampa Bay stalls in a thrilling NFC Championship game #GoBucs
#BREAKING Moscow police start detaining Navalny supporters at rally: AFP
#UPDATE Russian police detained dozens of protesters on Saturday as thousands of supporters of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny took to the streets following his call to protest against President Vladimir Putin's rule u.afp.com/UwLJ
#VIDEO Alexei Navalny, Putin's most charismatic critic, put out the mass rally call after surviving a near-fatal poisoning with a Novichok nerve agent and returning to Moscow last weekend following months of treatment in Germany u.afp.com/UwLT
#BREAKING Biden says Covid expected to kill "well over 600,000" in US
#UPDATE "The virus is surging. We're 400,000 dead, expected to reach well over 600,000," said #PresidentJoeBiden giving his highest estimate yet for the US outbreak's eventual death toll
Some of the new #coronavirus variants "may have increased transmissibility," but "we have no indication that the modes of transmission has changed. It spreads the same way," a #WHO official said
Allies of jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny face possible fines and prison time as pressure is ramped up on Kremlin critics ahead of weekend protests
#BREAKING Record-breaking India clinch Australia Test series in Gabba thriller
#UPDATE India pulls off a record run-chase in a thrilling final session to hand Australia their first defeat at Brisbane's Gabba ground since 1988 and clinch the four-Test series 2-1.
Wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant starred with a swashbuckling 89 not out