‘Can’t take a joke?’ Trump campaign hits back after Twitter raises flag for it using clip of Biden saying ‘you won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America’ out of context Twitter flagged a Trump campaign tweet which quoted Joe Biden out of context In the Trump campaign’s clip Biden said ‘you won’t be safe in … Read more
A seven-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, whose parents were told he would never walk, has raised over £10,000 climbing Britain’s tallest mountain. Caeden Tompson, from Corby, Northamptonshire, managed to trek 1,345m (4,413ft) up the country’s highest peak, Ben Nevis, in order to raise money for disability equality charity Scope. Born 12 weeks prematurely, Caeden has bilateral spastic cerebral … Read more
A photo circulating of two young California girls relying on Taco Bell’s free Wi-Fi to complete their homework assignments has concerned local residents and reignited worry about the ‘digital divide’ during the COVID-19 pandemic. In August, many schools across the country kicked off the year with virtual lessons that involved children having their first day of … Read more
Hydroxychloroquine — touted by President Donald Trump as a ‘game changer’ and a ‘gift from God’ in the fight against Covid-19 — doesn’t treat the disease and may even raise the risk of death, another study has found. A review of 29 scientific studies showed the controversial anti-malarial drug does not save the lives of infected … Read more
Remdesivir may not be effective in treating moderate cases of the novel coronavirus, a new study finds. The antiviral drug was approved for emergency use authorization by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) after it was shown to help reduce patients’ hospital stays over a placebo, in a trial from the National Institutes of … Read more
She had scarcely travelled anywhere at all. Yet, recently separated from my father and keen for adventure, my mother, Mary, decided to whisk my sister and me to Athens. It was the late 1970s. I was 17 years old — and promptly fell in love at first sight. Not with a dark-eyed local boy, but … Read more
Swarm of earthquakes detected eight miles from the San Andreas Fault raises risk of ‘big one’ hitting in the next week San Andreas Fault in California was hit by an earthquake swarm Monday The quakes began in the early hours with the largest a magnitude 4.6 Experts have laid out three possible scenarios that could happen … Read more
Redx Pharma joined the recent spate of junior biotech success stories with an 80 per cent jump to 45p on the back of a licencing deal with AstraZeneca. The FTSE 100 giant will pay $17million to develop Redx’s RXC006 for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, where progressive scarring of the lungs is usually fatal. If it makes … Read more
HBO Max has released the first full trailer for their forthcoming original series Raised by Wolves. The Ridley Scott-produced sci-fi series was created by Aaron Guzikowski and stars Amanda Collin (Splitting Up Together) and Travis Fimmel (Vikings). Collin plays ‘Mother,’ an android apparently tasked with raising human children following a war that destroyed life on Earth. … Read more
BUSINESS LIVE: BP slashes dividend; Easyjet raises flight capacity; Diageo profits slide By This Is Money Published: 08:04 BST, 4 August 2020 | Updated: 08:20 BST, 4 August 2020 BP has slashed its dividend payout to 4p per share. This is the first time it has cut the payment since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, after … Read more