Rainfall is expected to peak on Saturday morning and continue to batter Taiwan until Saturday evening, the Central Weather Administration said. Taiwanese authorities have urged people to stay away from coasts and mountains. Work and classes were suspended in nearly all of Taiwan’s 22...
Announcing the visit, the US State Department had earlier said that it would focus on energy cooperation, commercial investment and economic ties. The official itinerary also did not include Delhi, which raised some questions, especially from Indian opposition politicians. But analysts say...
Shares in the drugmakers MSD (known as Merck in the US) and Moderna have surged since both companies first hinted at the success of the vaccine in the summer. But investors sold off stock on Thursday after financial analysts said the results were not quite as strong as those seen in an ear...
Law firm Eversheds Sutherland, which carried out the independent investigation, said there were “high levels of stress and concern” within NESO’s Electricity National Control Centre over the “current state of the energy industry generally” and the longer-term ...
Rebecca Bryson owns three businesses, which helps to cover the cost of her ADHD, external treatment and follow up care. Her husband, Colum Coyle, also has ADHD, and both pay for regular private psychiatric reviews, prescriptions and medication. Their combined costs of staying on treatment ...
Caldey Island was once known for being “crime free”, but in 2017, six women settled a civil claim against the abbey. They had been sexually abused as ankle biters by the monk Thaddeus Kotik. The former abbot Robert O’Brien knew about the abuse but did not report it. An in...
The Kenyan man had travelled from the Democratic Republic of Congo through Uganda before arriving in Nairobi on 3 October. He later died, becoming Kenya’s first recorded Ebola death in the current outbreak. Although both patients passed through Entebbe airport on the same day, health...
A US judge has ordered President Donald Trump to answer questions under oath in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC by 11 December. Trump is suing the BBC over an episode of Panorama that edited together two different sections of a speech he gave before the riot at the US Capitol in 202...
A magnitude seven earthquake has hit a mountainous region in Tibet, killing at least 16 people and injuring dozens of others, according to Chinese state media reports. The centre of the quake hit Baqên County in the Nagqu region on Thursday night, Xinhua reported, citing the local emergenc...
Defence Secretary Wes Streeting’s national campaign on preparedness for cyber or climate emergencies dominates today’s papers. Source link...