A pigeon walks past people who wait in a line to undergo coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests at a coronavirus testing site which is temporarily set up in front of a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, December 21, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji Thursday’s count highest since Jan. 7 Upsurge delays plan […]
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Looks like the Olympics will go ahead this year no matter what. Atsushi Tomura/Getty Images Despite being postponed in 2020, all signs point to the Tokyo Olympics taking place in 2021. Here’s everything you need to know. When will the Tokyo Olympics take place? The opening ceremony kicks off July […]
Heart and circulatory diseases cause around a quarter of all deaths in the UK – that’s more than 160,000 deaths each year – an average of 450 deaths each day or one every three minutes in the UK, reports the British Heart Foundation. Robust heart health is therefore a reliable […]
Roger Federer has warned his upcoming opponents that he’s still not performing at his best, despite a straight sets win over Richard Gasquet on Wednesday night. The Swiss could face reigning Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic in the final after they managed to land themselves on opposite sides of the draw. […]
A veteran’s hatred of college students was the motive behind the 2018 shooting at bar in Thousand Oaks, California, that left 12 people dead, a new report suggests. On Nov. 7, 2018, Ian David Long, a former machine gunner in the Marine Corp, opened fire on patrons at the Borderline […]
A pyrocumulonimbus cloud above eastern Washington, as seen from 30,000 feet up in August 2019. NASA Earth Observatory Record heat and growing wildfires are creating firestorms that can generate their own lightning in the skies above British Columbia, Canada. As heat and smoke from large fires rise skyward, they can […]
BEIJING (AP) — As the World Health Organization draws up plans for the next phase of its probe of how the coronavirus pandemic started, an increasing number of scientists say the U.N. agency it isn’t up to the task and shouldn’t be the one to investigate. Numerous experts, some with […]
Half-centuries from Jason Roy, Eoin Morgan and Joe Root powered England to another one-sided success against Sri Lanka, their eight-wicket win a fifth successive white-ball canter. It also wrapped up victory in their three-match ODI series with a game to spare, and having prevailed in all three Twenty20 matches the […]