Boris Johnson asked his most senior scientific advisers if blowing a “special hair dryer” up your nose could kill COVID, according to Dominic Cummings. Mr Cummings’s full evidence statement to the COVID inquiry has been revealed, following his blockbuster in-person grilling on Tuesday. In the document, which runs for more than 100 pages, Mr Johnson‘s
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Women would “highly likely” suffer unlawful harassment in the Red Arrows because of their sex, raising concerns the squadron was not a “safe environment” for them, an inquiry has found. Predatory and other forms of unacceptable behaviour by male members of the team was widespread and “normalised”, with women viewed as the “property” of an
Jesse Rogers, ESPN Staff WriterNov 1, 2023, 06:57 AM ET Close Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. Open Extended Reactions PHOENIX — If the Arizona Diamondbacks can live up to the Answerbacks moniker that they’ve adopted throughout October as the calendar flips to November, what happened in the final
It looks as if the end is nigh for WeWork, the flexible workspace provider that once commanded a valuation of $47bn. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the company plans to file for bankruptcy protection as early as next week. It will be an ignominious end for a once-vaunted business seen as synonymous, in
Elon Musk has told Sky News that AI is a “risk”, as the billionaire joins world leaders and tech bosses at a UK safety summit. The SpaceX and Tesla owner has long been outspoken about the dangers posed by artificial intelligence, and earlier this year warned it could even lead to “civilisation destruction”. Asked by
Chinese brewer Tsingtao says a worker who was filmed urinating into a malt container has been detained by security authorities. A video showing a man dressed in a hard hat and blue overalls climbing down into a malt container at the beer factory in Pingdu, unzipping his trousers and relieving himself went viral last week. The
The creators of Friends have said Matthew Perry was “happy and chipper” when they spoke to the actor two weeks before he died. Marta Kauffman and David Crane told The Today Show on Sky News’s US partner network NBC that Perry was in a “really good place”. The actor, who played Chandler Bing on the
The second person to receive a heart transplanted from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on 20 September. The heart had seemed healthy for the first month,
The first British nationals have left Gaza and crossed the Rafah border into Egypt, the Foreign Office has said. UK teams are on the ground providing assistance, but the Foreign Office did not specify how many Britons had crossed the border. A total of 76 wounded people and their companions left Gaza in ambulances today,
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Picture taken on May 3, 2022 shows a general view of Slovakia’s largest mineral oil refinery Slovnaft in Bratislava, Slovakia. Joe Klamar | Afp | Getty Images Record high oil prices could be on the horizon in the event of a conflagration of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, the World Bank cautioned. Should the conflict expand