With Covid-19 vaccines widely available, the scientist behind experimental technology used by pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna has explained what was baked into the first batch off the production line. Dr Drew Weissman, a professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School
Coronavirus infections across the country are spiking due to the Delta variant, but an even worse version of the virus could be on the horizon if the US does not get a handle on the pandemic, Dr Anthony Fauci has warned. The
For a third day, Greek firefighters continued to battle wildfires as a prolonged heatwave and strengthening winds fuelled more than 150 wildfires in recent days, threatening the ancient site of Olympia. The blaze in Athens has rekindled and two new suburbs are
The moment a wheelchair user was saved after falling on to the subway tracks in New York City has been captured on video and shared online. In the footage, a number of commuters band together to pull up the man who had
The Los Angeles Police Department has started an investigation into the possible use of excessive force by officers in the arrest of NBA Centre Jaxson Hayes of the New Orleans Pelicans. LAPD Chief Michel Moore said on Tuesday that an inquiry had
A small group of women dressed in wedding gowns stood outside Governor Andrew Cuomo’s office on Wednesday and cried “arms chained, mouths taped”. The demonstration was both a celebration and a warning. New York recently became the sixth US state to pass
Google billionaire Larry Page was granted entry to New Zealand to seek emergency medical treatment for his son, angering some citizens stranded overseas due to the Government’s closed borders policy. Mr Page, the eighth richest man in the world according to Forbes,
Mexico will host a new round of talks between Venezuela’s government and opposition with Norway mediating, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Thursday. Without providing more details, López Obrador said Mexico offered to be the site of talks expected to begin Aug.
Former President Donald Trump has gone after the US women’s soccer team after they failed to make the gold medal game and won a bronze at the Tokyo Olympics. “If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t
Israel is ready to strike Iran, Israel’s Defence Minister Benny Gantz said on Thursday, a direct threat seen as a stark warning to the government of the Iranian new hardline President Ebrahim Raisi. The Israeli new threat is the first of its
The United States’s first arms sale to Taiwan under Joe Biden has been approved by the State Department, in a move that will irk Beijing. The sale, which includes 40 self-propelled howitzers manufactured by BAE Systems and related equipment, is worth an