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…
Facebook, Instagram reconnect after nearly six-hour outage
Facebook and Instagram reconnected to the global internet late on Monday nearly six hours into an outage that paralyzed the social…
Astronaut Barbie doll jets off on zero gravity flight
A Barbie doll version of Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti has jetted off on a zero-gravity flight with the aim of…
Eight killed as plane crashes into building near Milan
A private plane crashed into an empty building on the outskirts of Milan, northern Italy, on Sunday (October 3), killing…
Climate campaigners cause more chaos on London roads
Climate change activists blocked major routes into London on Monday, causing huge tailbacks and chaos for rush hour traffic into…
British military arrive at refinery amid fuel crisis
British military personnel in combat fatigues arrived on Monday at a BP refinery after the government ordered the army to…