MOSCOW — In a bright, spotless apartment in a Moscow suburb, a small circle of people sat around a table in December 2019. Bowls of candies and teapots were set out, along with salads. The group opened the meeting with a prayer and a hymn — most of them shy...
Wearing a mask is not a legal requirement, though ministers are still advising their use in enclosed spaces. Some public transport providers are encouraging travellers to continue covering their faces. Social distancing rules are being lifted, nightclubs are reopening, and festival organisers are welcoming the return of live music. Elsewhere across...
The number of people who lost their lives in the heavy floods in the western part of Germany increased to at least 81 on Friday, in what is the country’s worst mass loss of life in years. Around 1,300 people were missing in the Ahrweiler district south of Cologne, the...
Lionel Messi is set to extend his stay at Barcelona by signing a new five-year deal, La Vanguardia newspaper and ESPN reported on Wednesday. The Argentine talisman is also set to take a wage cut. Messi, Barca’s all-time top scorer and appearance maker, technically ended his 21-year association with the club...
Paris St Germain have signed Spain defender Sergio Ramos on a free transfer after he left La Liga club Real Madrid. The French Ligue 1 side made the announcement on Thursday. Ramos left Real last month after failing to reach an agreement to extend his 16-year stay in the Spanish...
South African health officials said Sunday they’re pausing the country’s rollout of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine after a study showed it offered reduced protection from the Covid-19 variant first identified there. During a briefing on Sunday, South Africa Minister of Health Dr. Zweli Mkhize said the hold would be temporary while scientists figure...
Jan. 27, 2021 — During its pandemic season, the National Football League found that people can transmit the coronavirus in fewer than 15 minutes of interaction with others, according to a new report published Monday by the CDC. Four major factors played into COVID-19 transmission: whether masks were worn, how well the...
Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine should provide immunity from disease for at least one year after vaccination, the company announced at a conference Monday, Reuters reports, adding that the company is “on track” to deliver at least 600 million doses of the vaccine in 2021. Moderna says its Covid-19 vaccine gives at least a...
The Detroit Auto Show 2021 has been cancelled after organisers concluded the effects of the pandemic risked “asking too much” of exhibitors and stakeholders. The event, officially called the North American International Auto Show, was scheduled to run in September in its traditional home of downtown Detroit, North America’s ‘motor city’. Organisers are instead...
New Delhi: Cross-platform encrypted messaging service, Signal has climbed to the top spot in the free apps category of the App Store in multiple countries, including India. The official Twitter handle of Signal on Saturday shared a screenshot, showing it placed above WhatsApp at the top spot in India. “Look...
Is It a Cold, the Flu, Allergies, or COVID-19? Nov. 2, 2020 — In the past, a cough or sore throat would have been a pretty obvious sign that you’d caught a cold or the flu. During this year’s cold and flu season, you also have to wonder whether you have COVID-19. It’s an important distinction...
As if you didn’t have enough stress already, now you are on the hunt for a job. Millions of people now find themselves searching for work. Instead of that fact making you feel less alone, it just adds to your stress. How are you supposed to compete with millions of...
Some 700 foreigners who were exposed to the coronavirus through their frontline work are being given expedited naturalization reviews. PARIS — Nine months after its president declared “war” against the coronavirus, France announced Tuesday that it has fast-tracked hundreds of citizenship applications from foreign frontline workers who have distinguished themselves in...
Manchester United and France midfielder Paul Pogba says he will take legal action after “total fake” reports said he was to quit international football. Pogba, 27, was reported to be quitting the France national team over comments made by the country’s president, Emmanuel Macron, about Islam. World Cup winner Pogba,...
The long-term academic, appeals court judge and mother of seven was the hot favourite for the Supreme Court seat. Donald Trump – who as sitting president gets to select nominees – reportedly once said he was “saving her” for this moment: when elderly Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died and a...
Levels of protective antibodies in people wane “quite rapidly” after coronavirus infection, say researchers. Antibodies are a key part of our immune defences and stop the virus from getting inside the body’s cells. The Imperial College London team found the number of people testing positive for antibodies has fallen...
Jamie Vardy came off the bench to score a customary goal against Arsenal and send Leicester to within a point of the Premier League summit with a first win at the Gunners’ home since 1973. Vardy, 33, had missed two games with a calf injury but was reintroduced after a...
Dominic Calvert-Lewin should have been called up to the England squad before Tammy Abraham, says Wayne Rooney. Calvert-Lewin’s prolific form earned him a place in the Three Lions side and he marked his debut with a goal in the 3-0 victory over Wales earlier this month. Abraham made his...
The NBA, which was the first pro league to suspend play amid the COVID-19 pandemic, made $1.5 billion less than it projected last season due to the pandemic and other factors, according to an Associated Press report. The league shut down March 11, then returned to finish a shortened season...
A U.S. judge in San Francisco on Friday rejected a Justice Department request to reverse a decision that allowed Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google to continue to offer Chinese-owned WeChat for download in U.S. app stores. U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler said the government’s new evidence did not change...
Facebook Inc may face U.S. anti-trust charges as soon as November, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing four people familiar with the matter. The Federal Trade Commission met privately on Thursday to discuss a probe while state attorneys general under the leadership of New York’s Letitia James have been...
The Philippines evacuated nearly 1,800 people and suspended sea travel as tropical storm Molave was expected to bring widespread rains over two regions on the southern part of the main island of Luzon on Sunday. Tropical cyclone wind alerts were issued for several provinces in the Bicol and Calabarzon regions...
Johnson & Johnson has temporarily paused its COVID-19 vaccine candidate clinical trials due to an unexplained illness in a study participant. The participant’s illness is being reviewed and evaluated by an independent data and safety monitoring board as well as the company’s clinical and safety physicians, the company said in...
Apple on Tuesday launched the iPhone 12 with faster 5G connectivity, which the company hopes will spur a wave of upgrades and keep its sales booming through the end of the year. Verizon Communications Inc CEO Hans Vestberg said the new iPhones would work with the carrier’s “ultrawideband” 5G network...
British scientists analyzing data from a widely-used Covid-19 symptom-tracking app have found there are six distinct types of the disease, each distinguished by a cluster of symptoms. The King’s College London team found that the six types also correlated with levels of severity of the infection and with the likelihood...
Luiz signs one-year contract extension; Mari and Cedric make loan moves permanent; Dani Ceballos extends loan from Real Madrid until end of season David Luiz has signed a new one-year contract at Arsenal, while Pablo Mari and Cedric Soares have made their loan moves permanent from Flamengo and Southampton respectively....
Liverpool is one step closer to securing their first league title since 1990 after cruising to a 4-0 victory over Crystal Palace. They secured an early lead with goals from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Mohamed Salah, but it was Fabinho’s brilliant strike that caught everyone’s attention. Salah then finished it off with another strike at...
June 10, 2020 – The widespread wearing of face masks — even homemade ones — could go a long way toward reducing coronavirus transmission rates and might help control a second wave of the virus, according to a British study released Wednesday. Scientists from Cambridge and Greenwich universities said stay-at-home...
San Francisco: Facebook on Monday added a digital payments feature to its WhatsApp messaging service, starting in Brazil but with an eye to expanding around the world. WhatsApp users in Brazil can use the encrypted mobile messaging service to send money or make purchases, Facebook said in a blog post....
Facebook has released a new app for couples to share a private space online, “even when you’re apart.” Tuned allows couples to share photos, notes, cards, voice memos, music from Spotify, and even their moods. There’s also a daily diary feature. Facebook calls it “a private space where you and...
KEY FACTSBill Bryan, undersecretary for Science and Technology at the Director of Homeland Security shared “emerging” findings that increases in humidity and ultraviolet rays as well as common disinfectants like bleach kill the virus on nonporous surfaces and in the air faster, emphasizing they were “ongoing” studies. Trump began...
Two pet cats in New York and seven more big cats at the Bronx Zoo have tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that they were the “first pets in the United States to test positive”. The cats reportedly experienced mild respiratory illness and contracted...
Researchers collected respiratory samples from patients sickened in Wuhan – the epicenter of the outbreak They found the virus could live for up to 37 days in patients’ respiratory tracts That’s more than twice as long as the mandatory two-week isolation period In the US, there are more than 1,500...
Health minister and Conservative MP Nadine Dorries has been diagnosed with coronavirus. Ms Dorries said she has been self-isolating at home. Labour MP Rachael Maskell said she has since been told to do the same as she had met Ms Dorries. The Department of Health said Ms Dorries first showed...
Arsenal have confirmed that head coach Mikel Arteta has tested positive for coronavirus. According to the Evening Standard, a statement from the club read: “Our London Colney training centre has been closed after head coach Mikel Arteta received a positive COVID-19 result this evening. “Arsenal personnel who had recent close...
The 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), officially named as Covid-19 by the WHO, has spread to 113 more countries apart from China prompting the WHO to declare the disease as a global pandemic. Confirmed novel coronavirus cases are closer to 130,000, while more than 4,700 deaths have been reported across the...
A powerful tornado ripped through Nashville in the US state of Tennessee early Tuesday, killing two people and causing widespread damage. According to the police department, it left around 40 buildings around Nashville destroyed and several people injured. Many residents took to Twitter to report widespread power outages. Emergencies shelters have...
Corona beer saw a 21 percent growth in revenue outside of its home market of Mexico in 2019 year-on-year, with major contributions from China and South Africa, the brand’s owner ABInBev reported on Thursday. Corona has been the subject of various social media memes as users draw connections between the...
Low-skilled workers would not get visas under post-Brexit immigration plans unveiled by the government. It is urging employers to “move away” from relying on “cheap labour” from Europe and invest in retaining staff and developing automation technology. The Home Office said EU and non-EU citizens coming to the UK would...
Federer will miss Dubai, Indian Wells, Bogota and Miami in addition to the French Open Roger Federer will miss his fourth French Open in the last five years after having knee surgery on Wednesday. The 20-time Grand Slam champion had arthroscopic surgery on his right knee – which had been...
The University of Michigan is investigating possible sexual misconduct by Robert Anderson, a former doctor for the school’s football team. Anderson, who also was former director of University Health Service, worked at Michigan from 1968 until his retirement in 2003. He worked with the football team under former coaches Bo...
TUESDAY, Feb. 18, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Patients taking a common diuretic to help lower blood pressure may be better off with a similarly effective but safer one, a new study suggests. Current guidelines recommend the drug chlorthalidone (Thalitone) as the first-line diuretic. But it can have serious side effects that can be avoided with another...
Ex-Fifa general secretary Jerome Valcke has been charged, along with PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi Paris St-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi has been charged by Swiss prosecutors following an investigation into the awarding of media rights for Fifa tournaments. Al-Khelaifi is accused of inciting criminal mismanagement in connection with allegations Jerome Valcke...
Tottenham Hotspur have signed Netherlands forward Steven Bergwijn from PSV Eindhoven on a contract that will run until 2025. Bergwijn, 22, has played 16 times for PSV in the Dutch Eredivisie this season, scoring five goals. He bolsters Spurs boss Jose Mourinho’s options in attack with England striker Harry Kane...
The idea artificial light from screens is keeping people awake at night is flawed, say scientists who have been studying the best type of lighting to nod off to. According to the researchers, from Manchester University, this blue light from devices is not the main problem. They exposed mice to...
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