PM, Whitty, and Vallance on when they’ll wear masks
Prof Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance explain the situations in which they’ll still use face coverings....
Laura Coates: That was hard to say with a straight face
CNN’s Laura Coates reacts to American sprinter, Sha’Carri Richardson, being barred from competing in the Olympics after testing positive for marijuana....
Democrats have national power, but Trump conservatives are thriving
Democrats might control the White House and Congress, but Donald Trump-style conservatism is on a roll in Republican states and Washington, raising the stakes for...
Hasty air base handover sums up America’s hurried exit from its longest war
Located an hour north of Kabul, Bagram was for nearly 20 years the hub of America’s war in Afghanistan. Now it is eerily quiet. The...
India’s billionaires got richer while coronavirus pushed millions of vulnerable people into poverty
India has been hobbled by an economic slump and a brutal wave of coronavirus that new research shows pushed millions of people into poverty....
Thailand leaked memo raises concerns over Sinovac vaccine’s efficacy
A leaked health ministry document has prompted calls in Thailand for medical staff inoculated against Covid-19 to be given a booster of an mRNA vaccine,...
An American lawyer went on a lunch date in Moscow. Now he’s languishing in a jail cell in Belarus
When Youras Ziankovich, a lawyer with American citizenship, returned to his Moscow hotel after a lunch date with a friend in April, he found four...
Tropical Storm Elsa: Cuba reels as storm moves towards Florida
The storm is moving north towards Florida, but it threatens to dump more rain on Cuba as it leaves....
Covid-19: Germany lifts ban on tourists from UK and Portugal
People who are fully vaccinated will also not be required to quarantine when they arrive....
Julia Banks: Ex-Australia MP alleges inappropriate touching by minister
Former government MP Julia Banks quit the ruling party in 2018 over its treatment of women....
