A mysterious shiny metal monolith discovered in the Utah desert mid-November has disappeared, leaving authorities and Internet sleuths little the wiser as to its purpose or origins. Some suggest the monolith, which...
Hervé Le Tellier wins prestigious Goncourt literature prize
A genre-blurring, polyphonic thriller about the double lives of passengers aboard a flight from Paris to New York, has won this year’s Goncourt prize. French author Hervé Le Tellier was awarded France’s top literary...
Australia demands China apology for ‘repugnant’ post – BBC News
Australia has demanded China apologise for posting a fake picture on a government Twitter account that depicted an Australian soldier murdering an Afghan child. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Beijing should be...
Poorest twice as likely to die from coronavirus in UK – BBC News
The coronavirus pandemic has hit the poor, vulnerable and those living in deprived areas the hardest. The overall death rate in England’s poorest areas was almost double that of the least deprived between April and...
How do you boost take up of the coronavirus vaccine? – BBC Newsnight
What are the logistical challenges of vaccinating huge swathes of the population and how do you persuade those who are ‘vaccine-hesitant’ to get the jab?
‘Gift’ for Biden | Iran and US clash over murder of Tehran scientist
Triangle of tension between US, Israel and Iran aggravated by recent killing of top Iranian nuclear scientist
Iran’s nuclear weaponization may be reason behind murder of scientist – Fmr Israeli Defense Minister
Naftali Bennett, Israel’s former Defense Minister, speaks to RT on the latest killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh