FEBRUARY 14, 2021
WHO Investigators have discovered that COVID-19 was widely circulating in Wuhan in December 2019.
In a CNN interview, the team's lead investigator said there were possibly 1,000+ infections that month.
The WHO team's findings also suggest that the virus may have emerged earlier than initially thought.
Investigators from the World Health Organization (WHO) have found signs that...
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall - Clarence House/WPA Pool/Shutterstock
Prince Charles has come up with a creative way for schoolchildren to spend their upcoming midterm break amid lockdown in the U.K. due to the ongoing pandemic.
Starting on Monday, the Prince of Wales, 72, will kick off his "Half Term Nature Challenge." Daily tasks will be issued...
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
A healthcare worker administers the Sinovac Biotech Ltd. Covid-19 vaccine at a drive-thru clinic in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. Brazil reported a total of 9,713,909 Covid-19 cases, with 54,742 confirmed in the last 24 hours.
The U.S. has administered 50.1 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine in the two months since rollout of the...
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Stonehenge, the still-mysterious circle of stones and burial mounds just outside Salisbury, England. - Andrew Testa /NY Times
Fans of the 1984 heavy metal mockumentary “This Is Spinal Tap” will remember the scene in which the band commissions a stage set that’s a replica of Stonehenge, the Neolithic ruin in Wiltshire, England. Alas, a careless set of...
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Photograph: Donald Trump removes his mask upon returning to the White House from Walter Reed national military medical center in October. - Win McNamee/Getty Images
Donald Trump was reportedly much more ill with Covid-19 in October than the White House publicly admitted at the time, with some officials concerned that he would need to be put on a...
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
U.S. President Joe Biden visits the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. - Reuters/CARLOS BARRIA
BETHESDA, MARYLAND - U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday said the coronavirus vaccination program he inherited from Donald Trump was in "much worse shape" than he had expected, while urging patience and also announcing the government has bought 200 million...
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Yoshiro Mori, the president of the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee, speaks at a Tokyo2020 Olympics Executive Board Meeting on December 22, 2020 in Tokyo. - Carl Court/Getty Images
Tokyo 2020 Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori will step down after sexist remarks he made about women were leaked to Japanese media last week, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported Thursday,...
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex. - Daniel Leal-Olivas/WPA Pool/Getty Images
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has won a privacy claim in her case against a tabloid newspaper that published a handwritten letter to her estranged father, Thomas Markle.
The judge in the case issued a summary judgement, which will avoid a full trial.
Markle sued newspaper publisher Associated Newspapers Limited after...
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was prepared to plead guilty to third-degree murder in George Floyd's death before then-Attorney General William Barr personally blocked the plea deal last year, officials said.
The deal would have averted any potential federal charges, including a civil rights offense, as part of an effort to quickly resolve the case to...
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
A photo taken on August 25, 2014 shows a crater on the Yamal Peninsula, northern Siberia. Photo: Vasily Bogoyavlensky (Getty Images)
The Siberian tundra is still out here exploding. A new study from the Woodwell Climate Research Center has identified three new craters in the region’s increasingly volatile permafrost, and the climate crisis is to blame.
Researchers have been...
