Prince Harry’s former Army instructor has claimed a story in his explosive new memoir about a ‘suicide’ training flight is ‘complete fantasy’ as the fallout over its publication continues. In Spare the Duke of Sussex recalls a flight in which Sergeant Major Michael Booley deliberately stalled the Slingsby T67 Firefly propeller plane he was piloting with ‘no […]
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Post-holiday COVID-19 surge shows less severe cases than in past years – WAFF
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) – Another post-holiday COVID-19 surge hit Alabama, but it seems to be on a downward trend as of Jan. 20.This is the third year in a row where the community saw a rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations after the holiday season, however, cases are a lot less severe in 2023.This chart shows the […]
Continue readingGhislaine Maxwell takes prison literacy test for $1.24-an-hour call center job cut-price internet TV
Sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell is set to take a prison literacy test at her Florida prison as she tries out for a call center job that will see her earn $1.24 an hour as she sells cut price internet, TV and phone service to callers. The disgraced socialite, 61, is serving a 20-year sentence for procuring […]
Continue reading'Public taken for a ride': EU yielded to commercial interests over COVID-19 vaccines, NGOs say – Euronews
Share this articleThe agreements signed between the European Commission and pharmaceutical companies to roll out COVID-19 vaccines offered significant long-term benefits to the corporations involved to the detriment of public health and global equality, research by NGOs has found.“Private interests exerted undue influence over European policymakers during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in a crying lack […]
Continue readingMother-of-two raped at knifepoint by sex offender on the run with aristocrat tells of her ordeal
The victim of a convicted rapist who is on the run with his aristocrat partner and their baby today told how he threatened to kill her sleeping children during a four-hour attack in 1989. The mother-of-two was held captive during the burglary with a pair of garden shears and a kitchen knife. And she has […]
Continue readingA 'very different January': L.A. County drops to low COVID … – Los Angeles Times
In a continuing sign of improvements in coronavirus case counts and hospitalizations, Los Angeles County on Thursday officially entered the low COVID-19 community level, indicating that the pandemic is not exerting undue stress on the local healthcare system.Recent metrics illustrate a “very different January than expected,” a top health official said this week, with continued […]
Continue readingGovernment of Canada announces a temporary negative COVID-19 test requirement for travellers arriving from the … – Canada.ca
From: Public Health Agency of Canada As of 12:01 a.m. EST on January 5, all air travellers who are two years of age and older, arriving on flights originating from the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong or Macao, will need to provide evidence of a negative COVID-19 test result, taken no more than two […]
Continue readingChris Hipkins to be next New Zealand PM after Jacinda Ardern's shock resignation
Chris Hipkins will become the next prime minister of New Zealand after he was the sole nominee for the Labour leadership vacated by Jacinda Ardern. Ms Ardern announced her shock resignation on Thursday, citing exhaustion after five and a half years in the job. Her surprise exit – not known to her partyroom until just […]
Continue readingKatie Price discusses contemplating suicide in rare TV interview
A household name in the UK, Katie Price has lived out the highs and lows of life in the spotlight. An open book with her fans, the mother-of-five has documented many of her woes on her various reality series and in tell-all interviews. Having courted the limelight as a teenage glamour model, the public have […]
Continue readingNews at a glance: Global warming, China's COVID-19 deaths, and JWST's exoplanet investigations – Science
Temperatures continued to rise at an alarming pace in 2022, which became the fifth- or sixth-hottest year in modern history, U.S. and European science agencies reported last week. Earth’s average recorded surface temperatures were some 1.2°C warmer than preindustrial times. Nearly 30 countries set individual all-time heat records, and some 850 million people experienced the […]
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