Top 10 world news today: Russia's COVID-19 vaccine, Auckland on lockdown and more

Declaring that he wants a government as diverse as the country itself, Biden committed early in his campaign, in March, that he would name a woman on the ticket.

Russia on Tuesday became the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval for a COVID-19 vaccine, paving the way for mass domestic inoculation even as the final stage of clinical trials continue.

Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russian direct investment fund which financedthe coronavirus vaccine project, said that Phase 3 trials would start on Wednesday with industrial production due to start next month.

The video, which the company had said it considered "highly offensive and inappropriate", had captions showingHitleras an unnamedBPmanager enraged aboutworkers rejecting a pay deal.

The virus was found on the outer packaging of frozen seafood bought by three companies in Yantai, a port city in eastern Shandong province, the report added.

The New Zealand government has put Auckland on level 3 alert for the next 3 days along with the rest of the country which has been put on alert level 2.

The row flared Monday when Ankara sent the research ship Oruc Reis off the Greek island of Kastellorizo, where Turkey disputes Greek maritime rights.

President Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia has successfully developed the world’s “first” coronavirus vaccine. Many vaccines around the world have reached the final stage of testing.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that one of his own daughters had received the inoculation, dubbed 'Sputnik'after the pioneering 1950s Soviet satellite.

Ammonium nitrate, which Lebanese authorities have said caused the devastatingBeirutblast, is an odorless crystalline substance commonly used as a fertilizer that has been the cause of numerous industrial explosions over the decades.It is being stored in several other countries across the globe.