Getty Images A US government panel has voted to recommend the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine should to be given to children aged five to 11. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) experts backed the move on Tuesday, paving the way for emergency authorisation within a matter of weeks. In September, the company said its trial data showed
Month: October 2021
SUFFERN, N.Y. – One of the most devastating offensive performances in recent college football history unfolded at West Point on Saturday. Wake Forest’s 70-point, 10-touchdown outburst at Army came with the Demon Deacons having the ball for just 17 minutes and 17 seconds, their scoring drives averaging less than two minutes each. The victory propelled
AFP via Getty Images Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has overhauled his cabinet with significant changes across multiple ministries. It comes after Mr Trudeau’s Liberals won a minority government in last month’s snap federal election. Of the 38 cabinet members sworn-in on Tuesday, fewer than 10 remain in their prior roles. As part of the
The BBC has obtained never-before-broadcast, exclusive pictures of the extradition of Hashem Abedi, the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber, Salman Abedi. Watch as he is taken through Mitiga Airport in Tripoli as he is extradited to Britain in July 2019 to stand trial. Hashem Abedi, who was born in Greater Manchester, helped his older
Reuters The Queen has carried out her first engagements since staying overnight in hospital last week, meeting two ambassadors via video call. The monarch, who is at Windsor Castle, met virtually with the South Korean and Swiss ambassadors in Buckingham Palace. The audiences come after she went to hospital for preliminary medical checks last Wednesday.
Getty Images National plans to cut carbon fall far short of what’s needed to avert dangerous climate change, according to the UN Environment Programme. Their Emissions Gap report says country pledges will fail to keep the global temperature under 1.5C this century. The Unep analysis suggests the world is on course to warm around 2.7C
There was a weird moment on Sunday night when San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan challenged a play that had no chance of being overturned. Colts running back Jonathan Taylor fumbled in the rain on a fourth down, but Indianapolis jumped on the recovery. Taylor clearly had the first down. The 49ers wasted a timeout
Getty Images VAT on household energy bills will not be cut in the Chancellor’s Budget on Wednesday, despite calls to help families struggling with soaring prices. Labour has been calling for the rate to be slashed from 5% to zero for the next six months to help households get through a “tough winter”. But Whitehall
Getty Images Workers and occupations hardest hit by the pandemic saw the biggest rebound in pay in 2021, official figures show. Employees aged under 21 and those in low-paid work saw the sharpest dip and recovery, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). A revival in pay rates for men has meant the gender
Joanna Lumley has called for a return to a form of “wartime rationing” to help reduce consumption in the face of climate change. The actor told BBC Breakfast that the climate crisis is a “different form of wartime” and that a “voucher system” which encompasses goods and services such as air miles and food could
Getty Images One of the world’s most criticised polluters, Australia, has promised it will achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. PM Scott Morrison made the long-delayed pledge after bargaining with resistant MPs within his government. He said Australia had a plan to lower emissions, but it would not include ending its massive fossil fuel
Getty Images US comedian Dave Chappelle, whose latest Netflix special sparked a transgender backlash, has hit back at those he says want to “cancel” him. Chappelle posted on Instagram that he was willing to meet members of the transgender community, amid criticism his comedy show was transphobic. He also invited viewers to decide whether he
Every season, the NFL trade deadline gets enormous buzz about what could happen or what should happen, only to unfold into a story about what didn’t happen. After all the talk and speculation, it becomes less a practice in aggressive management and more about conservatively bypassing options. The Green Bay Packers are going to be
Sir David Attenborough has urged developed nations to “take moral responsibility” for climate change as the world meets for COP26, the UN climate summit, in Glasgow in November. He talked with BBC Science Editor David Shukman on the set of his new documentary series, The Green Planet, which uses time-lapse to capture the world of
Singapore is home to a third of the world’s coral reefs – a staggering amount for a tiny country. Coral reefs protect the world’s coastlines, are home to thousands of fishes and are a vital part of the underwater ecosystem. However, issues like land reclamation and coastal development have caused Singapore’s reefs to deplete over
Getty Images Facebook has posted better-than-expected earnings for the third quarter, as it continues to face bad press over leaked internal documents. The social media giant made $9bn (£6.5bn) of profit in the three months to September, up from $7.8bn last year. However, it was hit by a new privacy update to Apple’s iOS 14
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