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Israel has vaccinated more than 20 percent of its population against COVID-19, leaving the rest of the world – including the US and the UK – in its dust. The small nation has deployed its military to help run mass vaccination sites 24 hours a day, seven days a week. As a result, it has … Read more
Think YOU’RE a geography buff? Multiple choice quiz challenges you to guess the population of 15 countries – and only 50% of players will score full marks Quiz on US-based platform Playbuzz challenges your geography knowledge Can you successfully guess the population of these 15 countries around world? Quizmaster claimed only 50 per cent of … Read more
Fern Britton asked her fans if COVID-19 was a ‘con to control the population’ in a Twitter debate on Sunday. The presenter, 64, said she believes that ‘COVID is a real and dangerous virus’ as she encouraged her followers to share pandemic conspiracy theories, days before England went into a third national lockdown amid spiralling … Read more
FIFTH of the world’s population will be affected by sinking land by 2040 due to human and natural removal of groundwater, model predicts Researchers led from Spain created a new model of global subsidence risks The phenomenon could come to threaten 635 million people within two decades Most of the populations at greater risk are in … Read more
FIFTH of the world’s population will be affected by sinking land by 2040 due to human and natural removal of groundwater, model predicts Researchers led from Spain created a new model of global subsidence risks The phenomenon could come to threaten 635 million people within two decades Most of the populations at greater risk are in … Read more
British author Michael Rosen, who spent 47 days in intensive care with Covid, has written a scathing new poem slamming the government’s response to the pandemic. The former children’s laureate, 74, who was left with a myriad of health problems following his recovery from the virus, accuses the Government and media of ‘dispensing with a whole … Read more
A unique whale song has revealed the presence of a previously unknown population of blue whales living in the north-western Indian Ocean, a study has reported. US-led experts detected the song being sung in acoustic recordings taken at three locations: the Chagos Archipelago, Madagascar and Oman’s Arabian Sea coast. According to the researchers, it had … Read more
More farming to feed world’s growing population will threaten thousands of species with extinction unless we eat less meat, study claims More than 20,000 species will lose part of their current habitats a study found The animals that are set to suffer include elephants, lions, zebras and baboons Projected mean habitat losses were greatest in … Read more
Mass testing for the coronavirus is not an accurate way to screen the whole population, health minister Lord Bethell warns Lord Bethell wrote that asymptomatic testing could give ‘false reassurance’ Government previously announced expansion of asymptomatic mass testing Lord Bethell wrote to a constituent to say it was not an accurate way to screen He … Read more
Austria will offer coronavirus tests to its entire 8.8 million population, with those testing negative receiving ‘more freedoms’ as the country prepares for third lockdown. The European country will go into coronavirus lockdown for a third time after Christmas, the government confirmed on Friday, just 11 days after the country’s second lockdown ended. Austria’s lockdown … Read more