A COVID-19 vaccine developed by British and Vietnamese scientists has proved “successful” in a trial with 50 lab mice. Dr. Do Tuan Dat, the president of the Vaccine and Biological One Member Limited Company (Vabiotech) in the northern Vietnamese capital Hanoi, said: “This is an initial success in developing a…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96tpSevx1OU&feature=youtu.be A project designed to show the softer side of rooks by filming a family in the nest backfired badly when one of the birds killed a chick and ate it on camera. The project that involved fitting a camera overlooking a family of rooks was part of the Project…
These images show Norway’s Transport Minister cutting the ribbon to open a much-awaited undersea tunnel in his office instead of on-site to respect social distancing. Minister Knut Arild Hareide marked the opening of the Ryfast road project, which includes an undersea tunnel linking the city of Ryfylke in Rogaland county…
CEN/@polosinevo A locked-down man turned the apartment block across from him into an outdoor cinema showing a classic Charlie Chaplin film to entertain his neighbours. The scene was recorded in the city of Kazan in the western Russian Republic of Tatarstan after local resident Dmitry Polosin decided to cheer up…
A Dubai woman driver has saved 31,500 GBP in traffic fines as part of a good-behaviour scheme that has seen all her fines waived as a reward for a year of good driving. Police figures said that 444,661 beneficiaries of the scheme were women and 114,769 were men. According to…
