Fifteen Sydney waterfront workers waiting on coronavirus test results after boarding ship carrying infected sailors; national cabinet decision to offer all over-50s AstraZeneca vaccine from 17 May welcomed. Follow the latest Scott Morrison claims future generations will ‘thank us’ despite no new emissions pledgeMalcolm Turnbull accuses resources minister Keith Pitt

Canada bans passenger flights from India, Pakistan for 30 days; hospital fire kills 12 Covid patients in Mumbai; Japan to declare virus states of emergency in Tokyo and three other regions on FridayDelhi hospitals run out of oxygen as India’s Covid crisis mountsUK’s south Asian diaspora despairs as India joins

Vaccine developed by scientists at Jenner Institute, Oxford, shows up to 77% efficacy in trial over 12 monthsA vaccine against malaria has been shown to be highly effective in trials in Africa, holding out the real possibility of slashing the death toll of a disease that kills 400,000 mostly small

Lin Shu’s forgotten 1922 text, The Story of the Enchanted Knight – with a less deluded Don Quixote – in edition for China and SpainIn the early 20th century a pioneering and appropriately idiosyncratic man of letters took it upon himself to translate the first part of Don Quixote into

Six hospitals said they had exhausted their supplies on Thursday night as the country recorded another daily record of 332,000 casesAs many as six hospitals in the Indian capital, Delhi, had completely exhausted their oxygen supplies by Thursday evening, as another unprecedented surge in Covid-19 cases overwhelmed health systems in

Former minister told to stop giving speeches and asked if he has memory problems while giving evidence at anti-corruption inquiryNSW MP John Sidoti has insisted to an anti-corruption inquiry that he was “indifferent” to the outcome of a last-ditch effort to enact zoning changes which would benefit his family.But the