Arsenal start preseason in Scotland with some senior players missing, lingering queries over transfers
Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal will on Tuesday kick off their preseason preparations for the 2021-22 season a match against Hibernian FC with many unanswered questions about strengthening its squad that looked out of depth throughout last season. Only 13 senior team players are available for the match that might also see...
Zuma has proved South Africa is just another African country like Kenya with its tribalism or Nigeria with its corruption
Post-apartheid South-Africa always begs the question: Is South Africa just another African country; what can we do about it? “In the midst of the political confusion that has gripped our country, many people are wondering if we have come to the end of South Africa. The answer is simple: The...
Quarter-dose of Moderna Covid vaccine rouses big immune response
Two jabs that each contained only one-quarter of the standard dose of the Moderna Covod-19 vaccine gave rise to long-lasting protective antibodies and virus-fighting T cells, according to tests in nearly three dozen people. The results hint at the possibility of administering fractional doses to stretch limited vaccine supplies and...
Black and proud Man United striker hits back at White racists: ’I will never apologise for who I’m’
Marcus Rashford has said that he has “felt no prouder moment” representing England at Euro 2020 and that he “will never apologise for who I am and where I came from” after he was subjected to racist abuse following the Three Lions’ defeat to Italy. This is not the first...
Fears Covid will hit children harder has lowered vaccination age limit
On 21 June, Israel’s Ministry of Health recommended that all individuals aged 12-15 be vaccinated against Covid-19 – making the nation one of the few that have so far approved vaccinations for younger adolescents. The decision came in response to a trend that many countries with high rates of vaccination...
Researchers should focus on generating knowledge instead of boosting their English skills
Most of my 19 years in Russian academia has been spent teaching English to students. But in 2014, my employer at the time, Tomsk Polytechnic University, gave me a new task: delivering full English courses to academics. I’ve been giving similar courses ever since. My experience of teaching English to...
Details emerge of how a doctor based in Florida, US, planned assassination of Haitian President Moïse
Police in Haiti have arrested a man of Haitian origin, reportedly a doctor in Florida, accusing him of flying into the country on a private jet and working with the assassins who killed President Jovenel Moïse last week. On Sunday, Haiti’s police chief Léon Charles identified the man as Christian...
Ordinary Chinese drive ecotourism, central government provides incentives to create jobs
Terry Townshend, a wildlife conservationist and biodiversity adviser to Beijing’s government, has since 2017 been training yak herders in Qinghai in the kinds of skills that ecologists hope could be a model for sustainable development since 2017. In 2016, he met the official responsible for Zaduo, a county in Qinghai...
Tigray crisis: UN agency apathetic as trucks ferry Ethiopian refugees to Libyan horror camps
A donor letter that highlights the plight of Tigrayan refugees in Sudan lays the blame more squarely on UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), which it accuses of having failed to ensure the presence of experienced, senior staff members in the camps and transit sites. The staffing problems have led...
Deepfake technology concerns trigger urgent search for answers among journalists, crime investigators
Deepfake video methods can digitally alter a person’s lip movements to match words that they never said. As part of an effort to grow awareness about such technologies through art, the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality created a fake video showing former US President Richard Nixon giving a speech about...
