With Premier League out of reach of Liverpool and Chelsea, they can only play for pride
Liverpool and Chelsea players have more than pride to play for in the remaining weeks. Unless they buck up, the classes of 2023 will record their club’s worst seasons this century – and in Liverpool’s case since the 1960s. Jurgen Klopp’s side currently sit eighth in the Premier League table...
Hush money: Voter rating of ex-US President Trump soar as son admits he signed cheque for porn star
Donald Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in a Manhattan court – and looked “vulnerable”, a former ambassador has said. But a pollster says the case is “helping” him electorally, and it is now “almost inevitable” he will win the Republican nomination. Donald Trump...
Crime against humanity? New evidence indict Pfizer for hiding data on low efficacy of its Covid vaccine
Late 2020, the airways became saturated with triumphant reporting of Pfizer and Moderna’s “95 per cent effective” Covid vaccines. Millions rolled up their sleeves with the belief that reaching herd immunity would end the pandemic. But by June 2021, the pandemic endgame story had gone off script. Highly vaccinated countries...
Marburg: Death of Tanzanian fisherman turns searchlight anew on Africa’s capacity to detect outbreaks early
If a virus like Marburg is spreading, being able to do genetic sequencing locally is particularly useful to find a way of reining it in. Genetic sequencing helps researchers keep track of any changes to the virus, and how these could affect patients. But in countries like Tanzania and Equatorial...
Exit Covid, enter Marburg: An Ebola ‘cousin’ that has put East and West Africa on red alert
In February, a 23-year-old Tanzanian fisherman suddenly fell ill, having just returned from a busy trading outpost in the middle of Lake Victoria. Back at home in Bukoba, a district in north-western Tanzania, he was hit by bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea. He developed a fever and began bleeding from...
