Mystery illness in India
At least one person has died and 200 others are in hospital in India due to a mystery illness. The…
Category: The World
First Pilot to break the sound barrier, dies at 97
Chuck Yeager, the American pilot who became the first person to break the sound barrier, has died at the age…
Covid-19 vaccine: First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK – BBC
A 90-year-old woman from Northern Ireland has become the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine…
Shutting school systems is the wrong response to COVID-19 – UNICEF
Countries fighting the coronavirus should not impose nationwide or large-scale school closures, which is the wrong response and compounds the…
Armed police raid home of Florida scientist fired over CV-19 data
Rebekah Jones claims Governor Ron DeSantis, with whom she has clashed repeatedly since her dismissal in May, was involved. Rebekah…
Sri Lanka’s Kaavan makes new friend in Cambodia
The 36-year-old bull elephant from Sri Lanka — termed the “world’s loneliest” — was the sole Asian elephant at Islamabad’s…
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani tests positive for CV-19
Rudy Giuliani, who has led the Trump campaign’s legal challenges to the election results, has tested positive for Covid-19. He…
Murder in Mexico: journalists caught in the crosshairs – The Guardian
The 2012 killing of Regina Martínez, who was investigating links between organised crime and politics, began a wave of violence…
Capsule with asteroid samples in ‘perfect’ shape
A capsule containing the first significant quantities of rock from an asteroid is in “perfect” shape, according to scientists. The…
The solar discs that could power Earth
It sounds like science fiction: giant solar power stations floating in space that beam down enormous amounts of energy to…