Hundreds of thousands of vaccines will be delivered daily by the end of next week, the prime minister has promised. Speaking at a Downing Street briefing, Boris Johnson said almost 1.5 million people across the UK have received their first dose already. And he insisted the UK has “enough” vaccines to offer a first dose
Month: January 2021
8:00 AM ET D’Arcy MaineESPN.com After an offseason filled with more uncertainty due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2021 tennis season is finally upon us, and the start of the Australian Open is mere weeks away. While many of the game’s perennial favorites will likely continue to dominate in the new year, the next crop
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has predicted England’s latest national lockdown will be the last full shutdown of the COVID crisis – but suggested Britons might need to be re-vaccinated every six to 12 months. The government is aiming to offer a first dose of a COVID vaccine to nearly 14 million of the most vulnerable
Britain’s Got Talent has cancelled production, with coronavirus restrictions making live auditions – the popular first stage of the contest – an impossibility. The ITV juggernaut had been due to film auditions in London later this month, however the steadily increasing COVID-19 infection rates have led ITV bosses to scrap filming plans. An ITV spokesperson
Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts have been suspended “indefinitely”, at least until Joe Biden replaces him as president on 20 January, its founder has said. Mark Zuckerberg posted on Facebook to condemn the “shocking events” in Washington DC. He said they “clearly demonstrate” that Mr Trump “intends to use his remaining time in office
Director Sam Pollard grew up in a house with three pictures on the wall – Martin Luther King Jr, John F. Kennedy and Jesus. Two of those childhood role models made it into his latest documentary, MLK/FBI. Early influences aside, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker says what’s extraordinary about the film is that it’s centred on information,
Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been arrested in jail on a new charge, while a detained American lawyer has been granted bail. Mr Wong, 24, was arrested on Thursday morning on suspicion of violating the controversial national security law imposed on Hong Kong last June, his friends and family said. The leading activist,
This photo, from June 2020, shows a Tesla Model 3 parked up and charging in central London. William Barton | iStock Editorial | Getty Images New car sales in the U.K. slumped by almost 30% in 2020, with the coronavirus pandemic and the enforced shuttering of showrooms hitting demand. Figures released on Wednesday by the
Ryanair has hit out at the UK and Irish governments for their handling of coronavirus vaccine roll-outs while slashing flights and its passenger forecasts. The no-frills carrier said it was to “significantly cut” services from Thursday 21st January which would result in “few, if any, flights being operated to/from Ireland or the UK from the
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7:08 PM ET National Basketball Players Association executive director Michele Roberts expressed outrage over the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday and how it reflected on racial double standards in America. Roberts told ESPN that her contact with multiple NBA players throughout the afternoon kept returning to the contrast between the
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies remotely via videoconference in this screengrab made from video during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled, “Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election,? on Facebook and Twitter’s content moderation practices, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 17, 2020. Reuters Twitter on Wednesday placed restrictions on President Donald
GP surgeries in England are to begin rolling out the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus jab as part of the biggest vaccination programme in NHS history. It comes just a day after the UK daily reported death toll topped 1,000 for the first time since 21 April with a further 1,041 people dying with the virus. Record numbers
A Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol building in Washington has described the moment a woman was shot dead by security forces. Video of the incident shows the man standing next to the victim at the moment the fatal shot is fired. He is then seen trying to help her as she falls to the
January 6th, 2021 by NRDC Originally published on the NRDC Expert Blog.By Kit Kennedy Part of NRDC’s Series Reviewing 2020 Climate & Clean Energy Developments It was the year that never seemed to end. The 2020 blows kept coming as the inter-related crises of the COVID-19 pandemic, racial brutality, climate upheaval, and economic recession inflicted hardship and loss
January 6th, 2021 by The Beam By Rebecca Cooke In one of Caleb Clarke’s earliest memories, he runs down to the creek near his grandfather’s house to fetch casks of ale for his grandfather and his friends. The icy mountain water keeps the bottles cool for them as they sit out on the porch in
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