Ths is a rejigged and updated version of an earlier article. Latest update 9/1/2021. Cognitive dysfunction and memory loss affect young Long Covid sufferers as much as those aged seventy and above, […]
This is a rejigged and updated version of an earlier article. Latest update: 29/1/2021. The FDA in the US has issued emergency use authorisations for the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. The Pfizer-BioNTech […]
This article has been updated. Latest update: 11/12/2020. The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is now being given to members of the public in the UK under emergency use authorisation. The elderly are being prioritised. […]
Nóra’s parents said they heard muffled sounds in their chalet the night Nóra disappeared. Sebastien Quoirin said Nóra lacked the stamina and skills to survive alone in the jungle for seven days. […]
This is a rejigged and updated version of an earlier article. Audio digest of this article (not updated). See article for the latest announcements by Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and the developers of […]
The audio digest of ‘SARS-CoV-2: lab-origin hypothesis gains traction’ is now online:
This article has been updated. Latest update 29/3/2021 Audio digest (before updates): French translation (before updates) @ France Soir. Researchers say there’s evidence within the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that suggests the virus […]
This article has been updated. The health problems faced by Long Covid sufferers need to be addressed urgently, say six women in Britain who have just published an open letter drawing attention […]
This article has been updated with the news that AstraZeneca has resumed trials of AZD1222 and with information about the pausing of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine trial. A rejigged, updated version of […]
Conservationists around the world are today (Wednesday) joining forces to mark International Orangutan Day and raise awareness about the critically endangered primate whose DNA is 97 percent the same as humans. The […]
One year ago – on August 13 – the body of Franco-Irish teenager Nóra Quoirin was found in a Malaysian jungle about two kilometres from the Dusun resort where she had been […]
At least 212 land and environmental defenders were killed in 2019, according to a new annual report, ‘Defending Tomorrow’, produced by the London-based non-governmental organisation Global Witness. About 40% of those killed […]
This article has been updated to include information about the two reports published by exiled scientist Li-Meng Yan et al. (Updates at the end of the article.) Six months on from the […]
This article has been updated. (Updates at the end of the article.) The World Health Organisation (WHO) has removed the drug hydroxychloroquine from its Solidarity trial, in which possible treatments for Covid-19 […]
The audio digest of “Covid-19: as SARS-CoV-2 spreads, discord over lockdowns increases” is now online:
Audio digest of this article: See updates (at the end of this article) about the WHO resuming its hydroxychloroquine trial and three of the authors of the controversial article about hydroxychloroquine published […]
New information has been added to this article (updates at the end), but the statistics are as of the date of publication. Up-to-date statistics can be found here. At 18/4/2020 the number […]
Next of kin of passengers and crew who were on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 when it disappeared six years ago gathered at a remembrance event today in Putrajaya, south of Kuala […]
A Bornean orangutan named Alba, who is believed to be the only albino orangutan alive in the world, is thriving in the rainforest where she was released more than a year ago. […]
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