Nobel Peace Prize 2020: World Food Programme wins for ‘efforts to combat global hunger’

The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the UN World Food Programme for ‘its efforts to combat global hunger’ The UN’s World Food Programme has won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize  Judges said the prize was to recognise its efforts in tackling global hunger   Award is a snub to WHO, also a UN body, amid … Read more

Rod Stewart accuses Elton John of snubbing his efforts to heal their rift

The tiff between Sirs Rod Stewart and Elton John doesn’t seem to be thawing any time soon. The iconic singers fell out at some point last year, when Rod, 75, poked fun at 73-year-old Elton’s retirement tour, and the biopic made about him, Rocketman. And now Rod claims he has tried to extend an olive … Read more

Test and Trace shambles as malfunctioning phones thwart efforts to find 40,000 missed off database

NHS coronavirus contact tracers struggled to reach tens of thousands of potentially infectious people yesterday after phone lines crashed following an IT malfunction. As workers attempted to catch up on a backlog of calls to the 16,000 infectious people missed from the database – due to an error caused by an outdated version of Microsoft’s … Read more

Matt Hancock lapel badges to honour efforts in tackling Corona are undelivered

Health secretary Matt Hancock promised 1.4million care workers lapel badges to honour their efforts in tackling Corona… but they STILL haven’t been delivered five months on The green Care badges would get same recognition and benefits as NHS staff Just 90,000 of them have been dispatched – the rest are gathering dust in boxes Care Badge … Read more

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in new video released of volunteering efforts at back-to-school event

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle can be seen waving to car passengers and helping children with their backpacks in a new video of their first charity outing since lockdown.   Prince Harry, 35, and Meghan Markle, 39, both wearing face coverings, distributed supplies, clothes and nappies at a drive-through run by Los Angeles charity Baby2Baby, which … Read more

Climate change ‘could hamper efforts to wipe out malaria’ by changing where mosquito appear 

Efforts to eradicate malaria could be hampered by climate change — which could boost mosquito numbers and bring the disease to new areas, a study has found. Malaria is a climate-sensitive disease which thrives where it is wet and warm enough to provide the still surface waters needed to breed the mosquitoes that spread it. … Read more

Air pollution cuts down life expectancy by two years, despite global efforts to improve air quality

Air pollution continues to cut global life expectancy, despite efforts worldwide to improve air quality. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 4.2 million people die every year due to outdoor air pollution, making it a bigger threat to human health than cigarette smoking, AIDS and tuberculosis.    Particulate matter is a mixture of solid and liquid … Read more

Bachelorette alum Mike Johnson blasts the franchise for diversity efforts: ‘It’s atrocious’

From Clare Crawley and Tayshia Adam’s strange Bachelorette season to the bungled announcement of Matt James as the Bachelor, the franchise has been a whirlwind recently.  And alum Mike Johnson, 32, who appeared on Hannah Brown’s season 15 of the show, blasted the franchise over its diversity efforts in a new interview with Variety.  Speaking … Read more

Donald Trump says he is ‘not involved’ in efforts to get Kanye West on the ballot in swing states

President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied any involvement in the effort by rapper Kanye West to get on the ballot in presidential battlegrounds – amid a skein of revelations about GOP-connected officials aiding the effort.  ‘I’m not involved,’ Trump said at the White House when DailyMail.com asked him about new disclosures about figures assisting West … Read more

Conservation efforts in China to protect giant pandas have failed to help large carnivores

Conservation efforts in China designed to protect the giant panda have failed to help the region’s endangered leopards, snow leopards and wolves, study finds Experts examined the large carnivores living in 73 of China’s protected areas They found in most of the regions, such animals had almost entirely disappeared Numbers of leopards, for example, have … Read more