Protestors have projected the number of times Donald Trump has played golf and the total Covid-19 deaths during the pandemic onto one of his Scottish golf courses. The illumination comes as the total coronavirus death toll in the US reached 200,005 today, the highest in the world. Its total death rate is more than 60,000 … Read more
Human trials of Oxford’s vaccine are still on hold in the US over safety concerns, two weeks after they were first paused. AstraZeneca, the drug giant which owns the rights to the experimental jab, stopped global trials on September 8 because a British volunteer was hospitalised. Leaked documents claimed the patient, a 37-year-old woman, developed … Read more
A former Facebook employee’s leaked internal memo has revealed her claims that the company ignored or deprioritized election interference campaigns outside of the U.S. and Europe, leaving junior employees to make decisions potentially affecting the fate of nations. Sophie Zhang, a recently fired data scientist on Facebook’s Site Integrity team, penned the 6,600-word internal memo after … Read more
The world has seen its largest one-day spike in coronavirus cases with 307,930 new infections reported in 24 hours, according to the World Health Organisation. The new record is just the second time that global cases have passed 300,000 in a day, beating the previous high of 306,857 on September 6. India contributed nearly a … Read more
A leading expert on Amazon tribes was shot dead with an arrow fired by indigenous people while approaching them in a remote area of Brazil. Rieli Franciscato, 56, was the head of a programme to protect indigenous groups that have little or no contact with the outside world. He died on Wednesday in the Seringueiras … Read more
A woman who allegedly lured her pregnant friend to a fake baby shower before murdering her and cutting her unborn child out of her womb has been named by police. Police say Rozalba Grimm, 28, has admitted to plotting for five to six weeks before she lured Flávia Godinho, 24, to a bogus baby shower and … Read more
India now has the second highest number of Covid-19 cases behind the US as number of infections surges Another 90,082 cases were recorded on Monday, with 1,016 new fatalities Rising number of daily infections in the cities and is spreading into rural areas India has recorded 4.2 million cases; the US, 6.2 million; and Brazil … Read more
Brazil became the second country to reach four million cases of coronavirus last night amid hopes that infections are starting to slow. The latest rise of 43,773 cases brought the total to 4.04million, while another 834 fatalities took the death toll to more than 124,000. On Monday, average daily cases fell below 37,000 for the … Read more
FA confirm England men’s and women’s senior players have been paid the same match fees and bonuses since January 2020 England’s men’s and women’s team have been receiving equal pay since January However there is still disparity in earnings due to commercial income and prizes The women also do not receive the same treatment as … Read more
A young boy, four, has learned how to ride the waves completely unaided on his own surfboard after astounding his parents by standing up without assistance on his second ever wave at the age of two. Joao Vitor, from Guaruja, Brazil, a coastal town 55 miles from Sao Paulo, was inspired to start surfing after … Read more