It has carried out one of the biggest real-world tests so far of the effectiveness of two doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Also: suspects behind the production and distribution of fake vaccines are arrested in China, and Japan's economy shrinks 4.8% in 2…
A three-day lockdown to deal with a coronavirus outbreak in Auckland. Also, the US criticises China over its refusal to hand over some data from the earliest stages of the pandemic, and hope that the world's biggest competition on natural ice might j…
Scientists writing in the medical journal the Lancet, say it could take years to control Covid unless all countries including the world's poorest, are vaccinated. Also: fears over a fake steam remedy promoted in South Asian communities, and, Peru's h…
The Australian state shuts down over a dozen Covid-19 cases. Also: the British economy suffers its biggest decline on record, and President Biden says he's ordered enough vaccine doses to inoculate every American.
Believed to be first time Israel has offered jabs to non health workers from the West Bank. Also: new figures say people with disabilities accounted for more than half of all coronavirus deaths in England last year, and France decides not to extend i…
To glimpse the future of the ride-hailing business, look east…
The giant chipmaker’s new boss has his work cut out…
A columnist confronts the pandemic…
Companies in Germany lament the effect of Britain’s departure from the EU…
The state promises to unload its dusty companies. For real this time…
The pandemic is giving them an excuse to gag reporters…
The pandemic has left them fighting for their survival…
A sorry tale of killings, kidnappings and technologically enhanced intimidation…
While many poor countries are putting up obstacles…
The pandemic has shown how risk-averse humans usually are. But there are always outliers…
Seven Republicans vote to convict, after a trial that has served several purposes…
The social-media platform simultaneously does and does not want to be the arbiter of truth…
After decades of undue pessimism, civil libertarians should be moderately concerned…
The Biden administration has declined to rescind Trump administration’s description of China’s Uyghur policy…
Portugal, the first country to do this, contains valuable lessons for America…
PM addresses former Liberal staffer’s allegation of rape; AstraZeneca vaccine approved for Australia; hotel quarantine back in the spotlight. Follow liveVictoria Covid hotspotsVictoria stage 4 rules and restrictionsAustralia state by state rules ex…
Updates from the first day of quarter-finals at Melbourne ParkAsh Barty plays a team game in singular pursuit of home gloryAny thoughts? Email or tweet @mike_hytner 6.43am GMT Fourth set: Grigor Dimitrov 6-2, 4-6, 1-6, 2-5 Aslan Karatsev* (denotes se…
UK to consider offering excess vaccine doses to other countries; AstraZeneca vaccine approved by Australia’s drug regulator; South Africa asks Serum Institute of India to take back 1m vaccine dosesIsrael battles Covid misinformation as vaccination…
A cool ocean current and a high capital bring surprising variety to a country of vast desertsKnown in colonial times as German South West Africa, the name Namibia derives from a word meaning “vast place”. This aptly describes a country more than…
The troubled times we live in, and the rise of social media, have created an age of endless conflict. Rather than fearing or avoiding disagreement, we need to learn to do it wellIn 2010, Time magazine made Mark Zuckerberg its person of the year. It d…
A former government staff member said she had been made to choose between going to the police and keeping her job. Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologized.
Some saw the barrage of rockets aimed at an airport in the northern city of Erbil as a test of the new administration in Washington.
New hotel quarantines in Britain.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Tuesday accused Australia of shirking its responsibility for a dual national arrested in Turkey over reported links with Islamic State.In an unusually blunt message to her counterpart Scott Morrison, Arder…
Dr Anthony Fauci has won the US$1 million Dan David Prize for “defending science” and advocating for vaccines now being administered worldwide to fight the coronavirus pandemic.The Israel-based Dan David Foundation on Monday named US President Jo…
After a seven-month journey, Nasa’s Perseverance rover prepares to touch down on Mars on Thursday after first negotiating a risky landing procedure that will mark the start of its multi-year search for signs of ancient microbial life.Transported ab…
Hong Kong recorded just eight coronavirus cases on Tuesday as city officials were expected to announce a long-awaited relaxation of tough social-distancing measures later in the afternoon, according to a source.The second straight day of single-digit…
With China’s box office takings expected to return to near pre-pandemic highs in 2021, the world’s largest movie market is becoming more attractive – and more tricky – for Hollywood studios.Ticket sales from cinemas in China, which has largel…
February 16, 2021 2:11 PMBERLIN (BLOOMBERG) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is under increasing pressure to ease Germany's coronavirus lockdown, with the ire coming from the heart of the country's economy.
February 16, 2021 12:40 PMIRBIL (NYTIMES) - A rocket attack on the airport in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil on Monday (Feb 15) killed a civilian contractor with the US-led military coalition and wounded six others, including a US service member, a…
February 16, 2021 11:05 AMRIYADH (AFP) - Under a new US glare, Saudi Arabia is rushing to release some political prisoners and make up with regional rivals, attempting to clean up its act as it braces for a policy reset in Washington.
February 16, 2021 10:39 AMForeign ministers from 58 countries signed the "declaration against arbitrary detention in state-to-state relations".
February 16, 2021 10:30 AMWith a lack of snow and the pandemic this year leaving many in despair, authorities are bringing snow and ski trails to downtown Oslo.
Australian Open 2021 Live: Hsieh v Osaka, Dimitrov v Karatsev, Williams v Halep, Djokovic v Zverev…
Giants’ skipper Stephen Coniglio has been forced onto the sidelines for 12 days after copping a heavy knock at training last Friday.
Penrith coach has received the support of his senior players in deciding to rule Brent Naden ineligible until at least round five for taking cocaine on the eve of last year’s grand final.
Victoria has entered its fourth day of a five-day ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown. The number of confirmed cases worldwide has passed 109 million, and there have been more than 2.4 million deaths from the virus, Johns Hopkins University data shows. …
A ‘calculated risk’ in early reports about George Pell’s sex assault conviction was, prosecutors argue, an attempt by media companies to put pressure on a judge.
From the chemical refineries that line the Gulf Coast to oilfields of West Texas, heavy industry has always been a big part of the economy in the Lone Star State. Now, as venture capital moves in to the state as part of an exodus from California, a n…
Parler returns from limbo, Uber lobbies Europe and we have more details about Notion’s outage. This is your Daily Crunch for February 15, 2021. The big story: Parler is back online The social network known for its far-right user base was droppe…
Growth talent wants to know that they have room to experiment, fail and iterate with the support and trust of their company.
Dick Costolo and Adam Bain, renowned early Twitter execs who served as the company’s CEO and its chief operating officer, respectively, have quietly closed a second venture fund just one-and-a-half years after disclosing they’d secured $1…
Nature’s Fynd, the food technology company with a new food offering cultivated from fungus found in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park, is releasing its first products for pre-order. Pitching both a non-dairy cream cheese and meatless breakfa…
A group of mostly Western countries led by Canada have formed a coalition against the detention of foreign nationals for diplomatic leverage, taking aim at a practice that diplomats say has been used by Beijing and Tehran.
The World Trade Organization will for the first time be headed by a woman, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, offering a fresh start to an organization seeking to revive its influence over global economic rules.
Some 30 years on from the war that saw Armenian forces drive hundreds of thousands of Azeris from their homes in and around the conflict-torn enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, many now hope they can soon return after Azerbaijan regained much of the surrou…
Friday’s meeting, hosted by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, will be the first G-7 gathering since April 2020.
The treatment of the opposition leader may have lit the fuse for protests, but the rallies quickly became an outlet for Russians’ widespread grievances about falling living standards, collapsing infrastructure and chronic corruption, and mark a tec…
A French security agency warns that the destructively minded group has exploited an IT monitoring tool from Centreon.
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Virtual reality can be a supportive tool for people with disabilities or anxiety, or who just need help getting up and moving.
Rift Valley fever (RVF) has been reported in Kenya in humans in Isiolo and Mandera counties and in…
On 7 February 2021, the Minister of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) after the laboratory confirmation of one case in North Kivu Province. The case was an adult female living in Biena He…
On 13 January, 2021, a child under 18 years of age in Wisconsin developed respiratory disease. A respiratory specimen was collected on 14 January. Real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing conducted at the Wisconsin S…
Between 1 June through 31 December 2020, the National IHR Focal Point of Saudi Arabia reported four additional cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV) with one associated death. The cases were reported from Riyadh (two cases), Taif (one…
On 15 December 2020, the Brazil Ministry of Health reported the second confirmed human infection with influenza A(H1N2) variant virus [A(H1N2)v] in Brazil in 2020.
