The US will share up to 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with the world, the White House has said. The vaccine has not yet been authorised for use in the US but the country has been making good progress on its vaccination programme using the Pfizer, Moderna, and J&J jabs. White House COVID-19
The refurbishment of Boris Johnson’s Downing Street flat will be reviewed by the UK’s top civil servant as suggestions the Conservative Party made an initial payment for the extensive work come under scrutiny. Cabinet Secretary Simon Case said the prime minister asked him to look into the matter, after former aide Dominic Cummings claimed Mr
India’s hospitals are already full to bursting, but doctors in Delhi are warning there could be even worse to come. Hard to imagine just how much worse it could get when the country’s citizens are begging in the street for air; people are collapsing and dying on hospital doorsteps and administrators are saying oxygen is
The police watchdog is to investigate the Met’s handling of Richard Okorogheye’s disappearance following complaints from his mother. The 19-year-old man, who had sickle cell disease and was said to be struggling with shielding during the pandemic, went missing after leaving his family home in Ladbroke Grove, west London, on the evening of 22 March.
The critics are howling. President Biden’s pledge to cut climate warming emissions has too many economic hurdles, they cry. It just can’t be done! During the Leaders Summit on Climate, Biden formally pledged that the US would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52% relative to 2005 levels by 2030 — the most
Ex-footballer and TV personality Ashley Cain has shared a tribute to his eight-month-old daughter. The Ex On The Beach star’s daughter Azaylia Diamond Cain died on Saturday after battling an aggressive form of leukaemia. Posting a tribute on Instagram, Cain said his heart was “shattered” but promised to ensure her name “lived on”. Azaylia, who
Swiss electric bicycle company Stromer has just announced an update to the company’s ST2 line of electric bikes, making the Stromer ST2 better than ever. The Stromer ST2 is the first bike in the company’s lineup to offer a Gates carbon belt drive. These drive systems are prized for their low maintenance, clean operation, silent
Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple, speaks at the 2019 Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on November 19, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Apple announced on Monday that it plans to open a new campus in the Raleigh, North Carolina area. Apple will spend over $1 billion on the campus,
Boris Johnson has denied saying he would rather see “bodies pile high in their thousands” than have another COVID lockdown. The prime minister rebuffed newspaper allegations that he had made the comments to colleagues in October, just prior to England’s second national lockdown. The Daily Mail on Monday reported Mr Johnson told a Number 10
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been sentenced to another year in prison on charges of “propaganda activities against the regime” in Iran, according to reports. The UK-Iranian national is also banned from leaving the country for one year, her lawyer Hojjat Kermani told Emtedad news website. “Nazanin Zaghari was sentenced to one year in prison and one
Families in India are being left to ferry their loved ones from hospital to hospital in search of treatment as the country’s new coronavirus infections hit a record peak for the fifth day. Desperate relatives have been pleading for oxygen outside in the street as many coronavirus patients have been turned away by overcrowded hospitals.
The UK is on course for its strongest annual growth since the Second World War after a resilient performance through latest lockdowns, according to a respected economic forecaster. Gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to expand by 6.8% this year, according to the EY ITEM Club – which would be the fastest pace since 1941.
Distressing footage has been released of a mother and her two young children being lowered down a nine metres (30ft) wall using a rope on the US-Mexico border. The family, who are undocumented migrants from Venezuela, were helped over the border wall by human smugglers about three miles (4.8km) west of the Calexico West Port
Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells has quit boardroom positions at retailers Morrisons and Dunelm as well as her role as a Church of England minister after a major miscarriage of justice. It comes after 39 sub-postmasters had their wrongful convictions for theft, fraud and false accounting overturned on Friday by the Court of Appeal.
NASA’s mini helicopter Ingenuity on Sunday successfully completed its third flight on Mars, moving farther and faster than ever before, with a peak speed of 6.6 feet per second. After two initial flights during which the craft hovered above the Red Planet’s surface, the helicopter on this third flight covered 64 feet (50 metres) of
The Indian Space Research Organisation will launch a data relay satellite that will help maintain contact with the Gagangyaan mission throughout after the launch, sources said. The satellite will be launched before the final leg of the Gaganyaan mission, which will send astronauts to the Lower Earth Orbit (LEO). The first leg - the unmanned mission