Britons have today been urged to avoid travelling on cruise ships due to coronavirus, despite blanket advice against all non-essential foreign travel being lifted. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has today issued a statement advising holidaymakers against embarking on cruise ships, over fears of the spread of Covid-19. The …...Read More
Foreign Office tells ALL tourists not to go on cruises due to coronavirus risk
European hamster now 'critically endangered' and one step away from extinction, experts warn
The European hamster is now 'critically endangered' and is just one step away from extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has warned. Once abundant across Europe and Russia, populations of the European hamster — Cricetus cricetus — have declined as a result of lowered reproduction rates. While …...Read More
Chinese exile Guo Wengui 'probed by FBI' over media activity
The FBI is reportedly investigating an exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui over his funding of a slew of media projects in the US and his involvement with former White House adviser Steve Bannon. Sources familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal that FBI agents have been speaking with …...Read More
Coronavirus: Filling middle plane seats may DOUBLE transmission
Flying with middle seats filled during the COVID-19 pandemic poses a larger threat to passengers than plane crashes, according to new statistical research from an MIT professor. Using publicly available statistics on social distancing and COVID-19 transmission, Arnold Barnett, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management, calculated that the …...Read More
Muzzle-bound starving dog escapes from China meat vendors
A dog has reportedly been rescued after its owner bound its muzzle with a plastic band and tried to sell it to market vendors for its meat. Heart-breaking footage shows the starving former pet struggling to eat food off the street with the tiny ring around its mouth after allegedly …...Read More
Man films himself dramatically quitting job over 'belittling' boss
A Salt Lake City, Utah man filmed himself dramatically quitting his job and posted the video on TikTok — where it's quickly gone viral, gathering millions of views. Maxwell Dean, 31, recorded himself bowing out of his job at a property management company in spectacular style after becoming sick of …...Read More
First DBX rolls off Aston Martin's Welsh St Athan production line
Aston Martin’s first DBX rolled off the production line of its St Athan factory in South Wales today with the new SUV marking a ‘milestone moment’ for the British luxury marque. Priced from £158,000, the first Aston to be ‘Made in Wales’ is also its first SUV and considered a …...Read More
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby confirms new Archbishop of York via Zoom
Being a Christian in the Church of England means living with the 'baggage' of 'saints and slave-traders', the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has said. Speaking to worshippers via Zoom he proclaimed that they are 'our inheritance... to be reformed, to be repented of, to be imitated'. The Archbishop made …...Read More
The 43 local authorities in England where Covid-19 cases are RISING
Advertisement Forty-three authorities in England have suffered a spike in Covid-19 cases in the past week — but the outbreak in locked-down Leicester has shrunk by 18 per cent, official statistics revealed today. Southampton endured the biggest week-on-week rise in coronavirus infection rates, jumping 12-fold from 0.4 new cases for …...Read More
SARS-CoV-2 is 1,000 TIMES better at infecting human cells than its closest relative found in bats
SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes Covid-19, evolved after several different coronaviruses merged into one, a study has found. Scientists came to the conclusion while trying to understand the evolutionary history of the coronavirus in a bid to help make a vaccine. High-resolution images reveal the spike on the surface of …...Read More
