Amazon offered on Joe Biden’s first day as president to help speed the US rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations, leading observers to wonder why the world’s largest retailer didn’t step forward before...
Trump tenure led to trauma among supporters
US presidency of Donald Trump has caused trauma among his supporters, which experts say could take years to heal.
Coronavirus: COVID-19 peak is yet to come
Scientists have confirmed that COVID-19 cases appear to be going down but that the mortality rate of the new UK variant is higher than expected.
Essex lorry deaths: People smuggling gang jailed for killing 39 Vietnamese migrants
Ronan Hughes and Gheorghe Nica – who were convicted of the manslaughter of 39 migrants who suffocated to death in a lorry in Essex – have been jailed for 20 years and 27 years respectively by the Old Bailey.
Google threat to pull search engine in Australia – BBC News
Google has threatened to remove its search engine from Australia over the nation’s attempt to make the tech giant share royalties with news publishers.
Germany surpasses 50,000 COVID death, UK crosses 90,000 | Coronavirus Latest
Germany’s total coronavirus pandemic death toll crossed the 50,000-mark on Friday, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the country’s public health agency for disease control and prevention. The...
Fighting back: Kenyan grandmothers learn self-defence to prevent sexual assault
In this edition, we report on the so-called “Kung Fu grandmothers,” a group of elderly women in a Kenyan slum neighbourhood who are learning how to defend themselves against rape. Our reporters also head to...