December 29, 2021
Biden and Putin phone call seeks ‘diplomatic path’
US President Joe Biden is set to hold talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin for the second time this month, in a bid to de-escalate tensions over Ukraine.The two leaders will speak by phone on Thursday.They will discuss forthcoming security talks…
December 29, 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell convicted in Epstein sex abuse case
NEW YORK (AP) — The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein. The verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring sordid accounts of the sexual…
December 24, 2021
Police stray bullet kills teen girl in LA store’s dressing room
Los Angeles police have killed two people, including a 14-year-old girl trying on new outfits, after opening fire inside a clothing store.The teenager was in a changing room with her mother when a stray bullet came through the wall and hit…
December 22, 2021
Nigeria destroys 1M donated jabs
ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria on Wednesday destroyed more than a million doses of expired AstraZeneca vaccines in a bid to assure a wary public that they have been taken out of circulation. The destruction came more than a week after health authorities…
December 22, 2021
Europe reinstates Covid restrictions
A swathe of European countries have introduced further coronavirus restrictions to battle the Omicron wave. Germany and Portugal were the latest two countries to introduce fresh post-Christmas restrictions in a bid to curb the new variant. Hans…
December 17, 2021
Omicron will become the dominant variant in the US, says Fauci
Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Thursday that the newly discovered omicron variant will become the dominant strain in the U.S. "very soon." He told Good Morning America, "It has an extraordinary ability to transmit efficiently and spread...Very soon it's…
December 15, 2021
New UK cases record as Whitty warns worse to come
The UK has recorded the highest number of daily Covid-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, with 78,610 reported on Wednesday.The previous record was 68,053 on 8 January - when the UK was in lockdown.Speaking at a news conference, England's…
December 15, 2021
US surpasses 800,000 pandemic deaths
More than 800,000 Americans have now died from the coronavirus, the highest recorded national death toll from the global pandemic.It comes as the US reached 50 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Monday.Most deaths have been recorded among the…
December 14, 2021
Artic Heat & Antarctic Ice Melts equals Drastic Climatic Challenges
The highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic - 38C (100F) - has been officially confirmed, sounding "alarm bells" over Earth's changing climate. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Tuesday verified the record, reported in the…
December 13, 2021
US Senate committee criticises oversight of Boeing
A powerful US Senate committee has warned of serious weaknesses in the way new aircraft have been built by Boeing.It also criticised how the company's aircraft were certified as safe to fly by the regulator, the Federal Aviation Administration…