The Sino-Vatican agreement on the appointment of bishops in China appears to have been torn up by the CCP. New regulations on the appointment of religious leaders by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) omits any mention of the Vatican’s role in approving bishops to the state-run church there, casting doubt over the integrity of the […]
Several of the world’s biggest media and tech companies, including Microsoft, Intel, the BBC, Adobe, Arm and Truepic, have announced that they will be partnering up to combat what they call “misleading content.” The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity, or “C2PA”, will work together to develop “technical standards for certifying media content’s source, history […]
A group of senior university scientists have said travelers might need to be vaccinated every time they go abroad. In a new report published by the Royal Society Journal, several eminent scientists from Oxford University, Cambridge and elsewhere have cast doubt on the longevity of vaccine protection, prompting them to suggest travelers might need to […]
The world’s wealthiest countries are monopolising over half of the current and projected supply of vaccines, leaving poorer countries struggling to acquire their own batches, an anti-poverty report found on Friday. 10 wealthy countries so far have administered 75% of the world’s covid vaccines, while 130 nations globally have yet to receive a single jab. […]
An investigative reporting team at Italy’s national broadcaster RAI yesterday released the full text of the contract between AstraZeneca and the EU. A partially redacted version of the contract was released by the European Commission in January, and that release revealed more of the contract than intended after the Commission failed to redact the document […]
Wifried Zaha said taking the knee before matches was “degrading”.
“The case for zero was, and is, rock solid,” Gates writes in his new book.
“I am in regular contact with the leaders of other nations on these issues. We simply won’t be intimidated.”
NASA’s Perseverance rover is set to land on Mars today around 9pm Irish time, which, if successful, will be the 5th man-made rover to land on the red planet. But there’s still lots that could go wrong. Now, as the rover’s 7 month-long journey through space comes to an end, it will finally make contact […]
As many as 3 people were injured after a bomb concealed in a letter or a parcel exploded at Lidl’s headquarters in Neckarsulm, Germany on Wednesday. Roughly 100 people were evacuated as the police cleared the building and used a sniffer dog to search for further explosives. Two employees received minor injuries, while one was […]
If this works out, then I’m looking forward to sending a personal bill to London for my share of the reparations owed for the famine, and other offences caused over the past 800 odd years. A west brit I may be, but I have my eye on getting a PlayStation five, and if reparations are […]
A Dutch court has ruled to end a government-imposed covid-curfew, calling the restriction a “far-reaching violation of the right to freedom of movement and privacy”, and arguing that it curtailed Dutch citizens’ rights to demonstrate and freely assemble. The court said in a statement that “the curfew must be lifted immediately” and claimed that through […]