Rodolfo Parulan Jr. | Moment | Getty Images LONDON — The coronavirus pandemic grabbed the world’s attention in early 2020 and has failed to let go ever since, but U.K. experts are warning that antibiotic-resistant infections, often described as a “hidden pandemic,” should be the next big concern. One inContinue Reading
With 200,000 COVID deaths in a population of less than 33 million, the impact of the pandemic in Peru has been particularly devastating: the country has the highest COVID death rate per head of population worldwide. It’s also estimated to have one of the world’s worst rates of children beingContinue Reading
Pexels/victor freitas It’s human instinct to avoid suffering and try to make life as comfortable and easy as possible. But paradoxically, a great deal of research has shown that suffering and trauma can have positive long-term effects. Many people who go through intense trauma, for example, become deeper and strongerContinue Reading
Review at a glance It’s unclear exactly how long Adele and her creative team spent brainstorming her four album covers, which are all photographs of her face in close-up, but perhaps we can read something into the smaller choices within this visual simplicity. On both of the first two, 19Continue Reading
New transport plans aim to remove private cars from Birmingham city centre. Chris Baynham | Shutterstock Birmingham was redesigned in the 1960s to make travelling by car as easy as possible. But the UK’s second city has been falling out of love with cars ever since. The council’s latest planContinue Reading
Ascannio/Shutterstock Since the end of the 20th century, daily life for most of us has increasingly moved into the digital sphere. This has led to the rise of the so-called “onlife” dimension, which represents the intimate intertwining of our online and offline lives. One day we may see the creationContinue Reading
The story follows shy book lover Jane, who is unexpectedly tasked with having to pitch to save her beloved library from closure. All alone in the library, Jane is unsure where to turn…until help arrives in the unlikely form of Lawrence Livingstone, a character from the book Jane’s reading. HeContinue Reading
ARGENTINA take on Brazil tonight in one of the world’s biggest international derbies. The match comes just two months after the return fixture in Brazil was bizarrely abandoned after an intervention from the Brazilian health authorities. 2 Lionel Messi is looking to take the scalp of arch rivals Brazil forContinue Reading
‘There is more than one way to skin a cat’ Auncunrisque 5/2, Calidad, 12/1, Rhebus Road, 14/1 were all placed in the first three on Sunday and with an each-way ‘Trixie’ (three doubles and a treble) yielded more than THIRTY POINTS PROFIT which represented a classic example of why it’sContinue Reading
Spitzi-Foto/Shutterstock COVID is surging in some European countries. In response, Austria and Russia are planning to reimpose lockdowns, but only for the unvaccinated. Is this ethical? Some countries already have vaccine passport schemes to travel or enter certain public spaces. The passports treat those who have had vaccines – orContinue Reading
