France is to roll out its Covid-19 vaccine in a five-step process, starting with the most vulnerable, such as elderly people living in care homes, followed by front-line health workers and people in precarious...
Mysterious ‘science-fiction’ monolith vanishes from Utah desert
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...
Arcadia collapses into administration with 13,000 jobs at risk – BBC News
More than 13 thousand jobs are at risk after the retail empire Arcadia went into administration. The group – which includes Topshop, Burton and Dorothy Perkins – had been seeking a new injection of cash...
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...
Fallout from the war report | 3,000 Australian soldiers may lose medals
As Australia deals with the fallout from a damning war crimes report, will it hurt those not involved in the crimes?
‘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