Summer holidays: Testing, quarantine and 'vacci-cations'
Travel journalists explain what some of the issues might be if you are thinking of going abroad.
Ivermectin was called a Covid “miracle” drug, championed by vaccine opponents, but research has shown that more than a third of 26 major trials of the drug for use on Covid have serious errors or signs of potential fraud. Dr Kyle Sheldrick, of the University of New South Wales, who was one of the group…
Refugees across Afghanistan are in a race against death, as freezing winter temperatures and a lack of food add to the country’s crisis, the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council Jan Egeland has said. He told BBC World News: “They have no food at all for the coming weeks. The little income they had…
BBC Click’s Jen Copestake looks at the best of the week’s technology news stories including: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Microsoft founder Bill Gates strike a £400m ($550m) partnership to invest in green technology projects Former US President Donald Trump announces plans to launch a social media network – TRUTH Social Robo-cat waiters are…
Vintage petrol-powered Bentleys and Rolls-Royce cars are being re-engineered to fully electric vehicles by a company based at Silverstone, the home of UK motorsport. In a world-first, Lunaz adapts the cars in a process which takes about 26 weeks and starts at £350,000 ($478,000, 405,000 euros). BBC Click’s Jen Copestake finds out more. See more…
Hamas is co-operating with international mediators to achieve a ceasefire and calm, a spokesperson for the Islamist militant group which runs Gaza has said. Bassem Naeem told BBC World News: “The key is very simple, to withdraw the security forces from the al-Aqsa compound and to stop ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people from Sheikh Jarrah.”…
Jen Copestake looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Netflix announces video games for subscribers at no extra cost Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos goes into space A rover uses artificial intelligence to learn how to pick up cigarette butts from the beach See more at Click’s website…