Final clinical trials for a coronavirus vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, have been put on hold after a participant had an adverse reaction in the UK. AstraZeneca described it as a \\\\\\\"routine\\\\\\\" pause in the case...
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China's Great Wall: How technology is helping to restore it. The Jiankou section of the wall ribbons over top mountains for 20km (Credit: Amanda Ruggeri) Built in the 1500s and early 1600s, the Jiankou section was left u...
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Due to rising COVID-19 cases, Europe says it won't allow any American travelers to enter for at least the next two weeks....
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A new "no swab" saliva coronavirus test that lets people collect their own sample at home by spitting into a pot is being trialled in the UK. More than 14,000 GP staff and other key workers, along with the people they live with, wi...
A yoga company in Toronto, Canada, has come up with an inventive way to allow people to return to group practice. LMNTS Studio has set up a series of bubbles in its outdoor pop-up studio for a few weeks. Canada has reported some 100,000 cas...
The funeral of George Floyd, an African American whose death in police custody spawned global outrage, has heard impassioned pleas for racial justice. Speakers in the church in Houston, Texas, lined up to remember a man whose "crime was...
All four cops have now been charged over the death of George Floyd with the officer who knelt on him for eight minutes set to face second-degree murder charges. Minnesota’s Attorney General will escalate charges against Derek Chauvin and charge...
Tens of thousands of people have demonstrated, mainly peacefully, across the United States for an eighth night following the death of African-American George Floyd in police custody. One of the biggest protests, joined by Floyd's relatives, ...
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre has called for urgent funding to avoid going out of business due to the "devastating" impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The London venue has been shut since 20 March and has warned MPs it is "crit...
Good news if you're a Twitter employee - you may never have to go back to work, ever. The company, which is headquartered in San Francisco, says its workforce of around 5,000 people have been working remotely since early March. The arrangem...
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Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang is one of more than 100 artists performing live from their homes, to support front-line workers tackling the coronavirus crisis....
The UK is gearing up to use the blood of coronavirus survivors to treat hospital patients ill with the disease. NHS Blood and Transplant is asking some people who recovered from Covid-19 to donate blood so they can potentially assess the the...
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How Russian ballet continues without a theatre The spread of coronavirus has shut down entertainment venues but for these dancers the show goes on....