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The Blue Mountains World Heritage site has been downgraded, but it’s not too late to save it
Twenty years ago, UNESCO inscribed the greater Blue Mountains area on the World Heritage List for having “outstanding universal value”. If you’ve…
China’s COVID vaccines are already being distributed. But how do they work, and where are they up to in trials?
Chinese authorities have already approved multiple COVID vaccines for emergency use in the country, and nearly a million Chinese have already been…
‘Is it safe to have more than one type of COVID vaccine?’
If we are ever to return to some semblance of normality, then the world’s population needs to be immune to SARS-CoV-2, the…
Brexit …. What happens next?
LONDON, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson could drop clauses in legislation that will deliberately breach Britain's European Union exit…
The potential impact of Brexit without a trade deal explained
LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain and the European Union sought on Sunday to strike an elusive trade deal, with failure likely to end…
Fortune or foresight? AstraZeneca and Oxford’s stories clash on COVID-19 vaccine
LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca and Oxford University have given conflicting accounts of how they came upon the most effective dosing pattern for…
Explainer: Will COVID-19 vaccines protect us? Does efficacy equal effectiveness?
The frontrunners in the COVID-19 vaccine race have emerged with different success rates for their shots in clinical trials, but what does…
Angela Merkel – The eternal chancellor
In power so long she has been dubbed Germany's "eternal chancellor", Angela Merkel marks 15 years at the helm of Europe's top…
The Conversation – Why women strike?
During the COVID-19 emergency, contact with others for many of us is conducted through windows. We talk through them but also use…
Why Trump’s lawsuits are unlikely to change the outcome of the election
U.S. President Donald Trump's litigation campaign to discredit President-elect Joe Biden's victory is very unlikely to change the outcome of the election…
Microsoft’s President Brad Smith on the US Election
In 2016, as the United States emerged from a close and contentious national election, we published a blog on the need to…
London’s role in facilitating corporate crime could prove the capital’s undoing
In May 2016, David Cameron raised an uncomfortable topic. At an anti-corruption summit in London, the former British prime minister sat alongside…