Dec_31_007

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Baby girl and father among five killed after car drives into pedestrians

A nine-week-old girl and her father were among five people killed when a car drove at speed into pedestrians in… ...

Police looking for missing British hiker looking at 'options beyond mountain accident'

Officials looking for a British hiker who went missing while walking in the Pyrenees are investigating "other options beyond a… ...

Woman in her 70s arrested on suspicion of holding son captive for 28 years

An elderly Swedish woman has been arrested on suspicion of keeping her son captive for 28 years. ...

Trump inciting violence, says Georgia official

"It's all gone too far!" says the voting systems manager as he rebukes fellow Republicans. ...

Conception boat fire: Captain charged with 34 deaths

Prosecutors say the captain's alleged failure to follow safety rules sparked "a hellish nightmare". ...

Hong Kong: Joshua Wong and fellow pro-democracy activists jailed

The trio were found guilty of unlawful assembly during mass protests in the city last year. ...

Potential US presidential pardon bribery scheme under investigation

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State election official: Someone's going to get killed

Gabriel Sterling, the Voting Systems Manager for the Georgia Secretary of State's office, said that he has police protection around… ...

UK approves Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for use 'from next week'

Drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech have been granted temporary authorization for emergency use of their Covid-19 vaccine in… ...

UK Clears Vaccine Before US, Europe: "By Spring, Will Be Through This"

The U.K. became the first western country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine, with its regulator clearing Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech… ...

"UK Marks A Historic Moment In Fight Against Covid-19": Pfizer CEO

Britain's approval of BioNTech-Pfizer's vaccine against Covid-19 marks a "historic moment" in the battle against the pandemic, the US pharma… ...

"Fantastic News": UK To Start Vaccinating People Against Covid Next Week

Britain will start vaccinating people against COVID-19 with the Pfizer vaccine next week after the country's regulator approved the jab… ...

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Hongkonger Aktivist Joshua Wong zu Haftstrafe verurteilt

Wong und seine Mitstreiter haben im Sommer letzten Jahres Proteste… ...

In Grossbritannien kann mit der Impfung gegen Corona noch diese Woche begonnen werden

Als erstes westliches Land hat Grossbritannien einem Corona-Impfstoff die Notfallzulassung… ...

«Wer bin ich, zu sagen, es gebe keine Hoffnung?» Die syrische Diaspora und die Zukunft des Widerstands gegen Asad

Berlin ist zur heimlichen Hauptstadt der Gegner von Bashar al-Asad… ...

Joshua Wong, 2 other Hong Kong dissidents jailed for protests

HONG KONG: Leading dissident Joshua Wong was jailed alongside two… ...

UK approves Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine

LONDON: Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the… ...

Nakhon Si Thammarat hard-hit by flooding

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: Six days of heavy rain has caused… ...

U.K. Approves Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine, a First in the West

Emergency approval of the vaccine, ahead of the United States… ...

Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow and Ivan Lam Are Sentenced in Hong Kong

The activists, along with Ivan Lam, had pleaded guilty to… ...

Rizieq Shihab, Back in Indonesia, Calls for ‘Moral Revolution’

Rizieq Shihab and his vigilante movement have spent decades calling… ...

Gesicht der Demokratie-Bewegung: Joshua Wong zu 13,5 Monaten Haft verurteilt

Der Hongkonger Aktivist Joshua Wong muss für 13,5 Monate ins… ...

Protest befeuert Corona in Weissrussland: Statt Kranke zu behandeln, sitzen sie im Gefängnis

Wer in Weissrussland über die Pandemie oder über Prügeleien der… ...

Mögliche Intrige: Schmiergeld für Begnadigung durch Trump?

Das US-Justizministerium geht dem Verdacht nach, ob präsidiale Begnadigungen möglicherweise… ...

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Not just lizards: Alligators can regrow their tails too, new study reveals

Scientists have discovered that young alligators have the ability to regrow their tails up to three-quarters of a foot -- about 18 percent of their total body length. The researchers… ...

Zebra finches amazing at unmasking the bird behind the song

Like humans who can instantly tell which friend or relative is calling by the timbre of the person's voice, zebra finches have a near-human capacity for language mapping. ...

Researchers examine which approaches are most effective at reducing COVID-19 spread

Researchers have found that physical distancing is universally effective at reducing the spread of COVID-19, while social bubbles and masks are more situation-dependent. The researchers developed a model to test… ...

Information for all visitors to ESA sites

Information for all visitors to ESA sites Coronavirus measures for hosted meetings and visitors ...

SOHO’s pioneering 25 years in orbit

The ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is celebrating its twenty-fifth launch anniversary. ...

A-68A on the move

Image: All eyes remain on the giant A-68A iceberg on its journey across the Southern Ocean. This image shows A-68A’s movements over the past 15 days using data from the… ...

Acute hepatitis E – Burkina Faso

Between 8 September and 24 November, 2020, the North-Central region of Burkina Faso reported a ...

Yellow fever – Nigeria

Reports of a cluster of deaths from an undiagnosed disease were notified on 1 November 2020 through Event Based Surveillance in two states, Delta and Enugu, located in southern Nigeria. ...

Ebola virus disease – Democratic Republic of the Congo

On 18 November 2020, the Minister of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared the end of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in Equateur Province. ...

Slack sold to business software giant for $27.7bn

The workplace messaging app's sale comes as the pandemic has increased the focus on remote work. ...

Qualcomm: Android phones to get 'lucky number' Snapdragon 888 chip

The Californian firm is launching its chip at a time of trade tensions between the US and China. ...

The new ‘Nigerian princes’ of hacking?

BEC hacking is one of the most common types of cyber-attack and experts say Nigeria is its epicentre. ...