The government plans to introduce a law that, starting in 2027, will lift the smoking age by a year every year. New Zealand plans to raise the legal smoking age by one year every year effectively banning the sale of tobacco to people born after 2008. “We want to make sure young people never start…
Disaster in a Siberian coal mine at Kemerovo region, sparked by a gas leak killed at least 52 people on Thursday. The director of the mine has been taken into police custody, along with five other administrators. Only days before his death in a mine explosion in Russia’s coal-rich Kuzbass region, Boris Piyalkin (55) said…
The UK advertising watchdog says the rules for adverts for cosmetic surgery including breast enhancements and nose jobs designed to change person’s physical appearance are to be banned targeting under 18s across TV programmes and social media. It is illegal to perform cosmetic procedures on under-18s but there have previously been no restrictions on…
Five people have been killed and more than 42 injured after a car ploughed into a parade in the US state of Wisconsin according to police chief Dan Thompson The mobile phone video reveals a red SUV driving through a Christmas parade in the city of Waukesha, west og Milwaukee, in the state of…
Fireworks and chaos has erupted in Hague, Netherlands, for a second night against new lockdown rules amid record spike in Covid-19 cases in Europe, as Netherlands imposed a three-week partial lockdown last Saturday. Netherlands has over 1000 daily cases per million people. Hooded rioters set fire to bicycles on the streets of Hague, as riot…
Paxlovid a Covid experimental pill developed by the US company Pfizer cuts the risk of hospitalisation or death in vulnerable adults, according to their clinical trial. Pfizer says it stopped trials early as the initial results were so positive. The UK has already ordered 250, 000 courses of the new Pfizer treatment along with another…
The UK Medicines regulator MHRA, became the first country in the world to approve the antiviral Lagevrio (Molnupiravir) , a pill designed for the most vulnerable and the immunosuppressed and to treat people who are ill with Covid. Molnupiravir will be given twice a day to vulnerable patients recently diagnosed with the disease with in…
The new virus news emerging from China in December 2018, risk-averse financial markets were alert to its potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow Covid-19’s wake, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since 1929, currencies across the world plunged, investors panicked…
At least one person has died as tree fell over his home in Ascension Parish, in the Baton Rouge area. Ida is testing flood defences strengthened after Hurricane Katrina killed 1, 800 people in 2005, on the 16th anniversary of Katrina a category three storm. Over 1 million loses power in New Orleans as Hurricane…
On Sunday as the Taliban took over Kabul, the capital, the US state department announced that all US embassy staff had been evacuated to Hamid Karzal International Airport which was under US military control. People are scared and think things could go wrong at any moment. The face-covering was mandatory for all women under Taliban…