US President Donald Trump fired the country’s top cybersecurity official on Tuesday over a statement he made about the Nov. 3 presidential election. In a tweet, Trump said that Chris Krebs, the director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security...

The first results are out on vaccine trials which aim to provide immunity against the novel coronavirus. There is much to be optimistic about. US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German biotechnology firm BioNTech, co-founded by Turkish scientist Ugur Sahin, announced that their vaccine...

Russia confirmed on Tuesday a record number of coronavirus deaths and recoveries, which were registered over the last 24 hours. The virus claimed another 442 lives, the highest in Russia since the pandemic began, according to the latest government figures. As many as 439 people had died of...

While Sahin was born in Turkey's southern province of Iskenderun in 1965 and moved to Germany as a 4-year-old, Tureci is the daughter of a Turkish physician who emigrated to Germany from Istanbul. Their success story is being hailed far and wide. Kemal Kirisci, a senior fellow at...