Moderna sues Pfizer/BioNTech for patent infringement

Moderna yesterday sued Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech for patent infringement in the development of the first Covid-19 vaccine approved in the United States, alleging they copied technology that Moderna developed years before the pandemic.
26 August 2022

Psychedelic "magic mushrooms" may help alcoholics to quit

The compound in psychedelic mushrooms helped heavy drinkers cut back or quit entirely in the most rigorous test of psilocybin for alcoholism.
26 August 2022

Russia wasting natural gas by burning while limiting EU supplies: Analysts

Russia is wasting large volumes of natural gas by burning it in a huge orange flare near the Finnish border at a time when it has sharply cut deliveries to the European Union, scientists and analysts said on Friday.
26 August 2022

Russian goods entering US markets amid sanctions

On a hot, humid East Coast day this summer, a massive container ship pulled into the Port of Baltimore loaded with sheets of plywood, aluminum rods and radioactive material – all sourced from the fields, forests and factories of Russia.
26 August 2022

UK residents to see 80% increase in energy bills amid worst cost-of-living crisis

Jennifer Jones keeps feeding money into her energy meter, but it never seems to be enough. And when she can’t pay, she feels the impact immediately.
26 August 2022

Britain’s former Myanmar envoy held in Yangon

Authorities in Myanmar have detained Britain’s former ambassador to the Southeast Asian nation, where a military junta seized power last year, three people with knowledge of the situation said yesterday.
25 August 2022

Attack on ukraine rail station: 25 killed in I-Day strike

Russia’s Defence Ministry yesterday said its forces had struck a railway station in eastern Ukraine, confirming an attack which Kyiv says also hit a residential area and killed 25 civilians as the nation marked its Independence Day.
25 August 2022

Facing ‘pressure’ from all sides

The UN human rights chief said yesterday that she is still aiming to release a long-anticipated report on China’s treatment of its Uyghur minority in Xinjiang by the end of her four-year mandate next week amid “tremendous pressure” from all sides.
25 August 2022

Iran reviews US response

Iran has received Washington’s response to an EU-drafted final offer for saving Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with major powers, Iran’s foreign ministry said late on Wednesday, giving no firm indication of how close they are to narrowing remaining gaps.
25 August 2022

UK to intervene in The Gambia v Myanmar case

UK has confirmed its intention to intervene in The Gambia v Myanmar case with the International Court of Justice to support international justice efforts.
25 August 2022

Blinken: Working to resettle Rohingyas in the US

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said the US is working to significantly increase the resettlement of Rohingya refugees from the region, including from Bangladesh so that they can rebuild their lives in the US, as an essential component of an international, comprehensive humanitarian response.
25 August 2022

India condemns "horrific" attack on Salman Rushdie

In its first reaction to the stabbing of Salman Rushdie, India today (August 25, 2022) condemned the "horrific attack" on the celebrated novelist and wished him a speedy recovery.
25 August 2022

After Ryan Reynolds calls it “best Indian food in Europe”, UK restaurant flooded with bookings

“Deadpool” actor Ryan Reynolds recently praised a restaurant in UK while posting a flyer on his Instagram, and since then the restaurant’s bookings have been “off the scale”.
25 August 2022

UAE’s first female Emirati captain is an Etihad pilot

Aisha al-Mansoori, an Etihad pilot, became UAE’s first female Emirati commercial captain after earning her stripes, reports Al Arabiya.
25 August 2022

17-year-old pilot sets record flying solo around world

A British-Belgian teenager became the youngest person to fly solo around the world on Wednesday after a five-month journey that saw him battle monsoon rains, searing heat and bureaucracy.
25 August 2022

US economists fear inflation as Biden forgives millions of student loans

President Joe Biden said on Wednesday the US government will forgive $10,000 in student loans for millions of debt-saddled former college students, keeping a pledge he made in the 2020 campaign for the White House.
25 August 2022

Heatwave triggers ‘false autumn’ in UK

Searing summer temperatures in the UK have not just parched the earth and dried up rivers, lakes and reservoirs but are also seeing trees shed
24 August 2022

US targets ‘Iran-backed militias’ in Syria

President Joe Biden on Tuesday ordered air strikes in eastern Syria targeting facilities used by Iranian-backed militias, a US military spokesman said.
24 August 2022

Israel unveils 1,200 year-old desert mansion

Israeli archaeologists unveiled a 1,200 year-old mansion on Tuesday, broadening knowledge of the southern desert region where a mosque was recently discovered.
24 August 2022

Kyiv will fight ‘till the end’

President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday vowed that Ukraine will resist the Russian invasion “until the end” without “any concession or compromise”, as the nation marked its Independence Day as well as the six-month anniversary of the start of the war.
24 August 2022