Sweden and Denmark said on Wednesday they are pausing the use of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for younger age groups after…
Trio win physics Nobel for work deciphering chaotic climate
Japanese-born American Syukuro Manabe, German Klaus Hasselmann and Italian Giorgio Parisi won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday…
Greece announces additional freedoms for vaccinated individuals
Health Minister Thanos Plevris on Wednesday announced an end of strict Covid-19 restrictions in areas classed as red zones, and…
Britain will not run out of sausage rolls, says Greggs
British baker and fast food chain Greggs said supplies of its famous sausage rolls will be maintained this year despite…
Telegram founder says over 70 million new users joined during Facebook outage
Messaging app Telegram gained over 70 million new users during Monday’s Facebook outage, its founder Pavel Durov has said, as…
Covid-related school absences increase by two-thirds in England
School absences in England related to COVID-19 jumped by two-thirds in the last two weeks of September, according to government data…
Pandora Papers: Rich and powerful deny wrongdoing after dump of purported secrets
The Czech prime minister, the king of Jordan and the chairman of a well-known Indian conglomerate were among global figures…
UK’s Johnson casts insulate activists as ‘irresponsible crusties’
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that climate change activists who blocked major roads into London were ‘irresponsible…
Facebook six-hour outage costs founder Zuckerberg about $6 billion
But the company said there was “no evidence that user data was compromised”. The outage was the second blow to…
Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness drops after 6 months – study
The effectiveness of the Pfizer Inc /BioNTech SE vaccine in preventing infection by the coronavirus dropped to 47% from 88% six months…