At least 751 unmarked graves were found at a former boarding school for Indigenous children in Canada, officials said Thursday. The brutal discovery took place at the site of the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan, a Catholic school that opened in 1899 and closed in 1997. “This was a crime against humanity, an assault
Month: June 2021
EPA The Balearic Islands, Malta, Madeira and Barbados are among the places being added to Northern Ireland’s and Scotland’s green travel lists. From 04:00 on 30 June, people entering Scotland and Northern Ireland from these places do not have to quarantine. The publication of the lists comes as an announcement is due from the UK
Thirteen genetic sequences — isolated from people with COVID-19 infections in the early days of the pandemic in China — were mysteriously deleted from an online database last year but have now been recovered. Jesse Bloom, a computational biologist and specialist in viral evolution at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, found that
PA Media The UK’s rules on foreign travel are set to be reviewed later, after industry bosses united in a desperate plea for the green list to be widened. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps will face MPs this morning, with an update on the traffic light system expected in the afternoon. Travel bosses are calling for
John McAfee, the eccentric tech mogul who made his fortune developing antivirus software, was found dead in a jail cell near Barcelona on Wednesday, just hours after Spain’s National Court ruled that he was to be extradited to the United States to face tax evasion charges. He was 75. The news of his death was
After his encounter with the Pope, Villardita told Catholic News Agency that the experience made him “very happy” as a Catholic and shared that the pope had told him to “take a lot of selfies with the kids in the square.” Villardita shared that he felt an urge to be a symbol of hope for
Crown Prosecution Service A police officer has been found guilty of the manslaughter of ex-footballer Dalian Atkinson. The former Aston Villa striker died after a stand-off with West Mercia police officers outside his father’s home in Telford, Shropshire in 2016. PC Benjamin Monk, 43, was cleared by jurors of an alternative charge of murder. A
Getty Images More than five million people became millionaires across the world in 2020 despite economic damage from the Covid-19 pandemic. While many poor people became poorer, the number of millionaires increased by 5.2 million to 56.1 million globally, Credit Suisse research found. In 2020 more than 1% of adults worldwide were millionaires for the
Getty Images Scotland is aiming to remove all of its major legal Covid restrictions in early August, the country’s first minister has announced. Nicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed lockdown easing would be paused for three weeks to allow more time for people to be vaccinated. It means mainland areas will not move to
Getty Images “It’s nothing short of a scandal” how white working class pupils in England have been “let down and neglected” by the education system for decades, says a hard-hitting report from MPs. Robert Halfon, education select committee chairman, dismissed “divisive concepts like ‘white privilege’ that pit one group against another”. Poorer white pupils were
Getty Images Plans to ease Covid restrictions in England on 19 July are “looking good”, the prime minister has said. Boris Johnson said that was based on the efficacy of vaccines against identified variants. But he warned there could be a “rough winter for all sorts of reasons”, including a resurgence of flu. It comes
PA Media The government must start planning for the autumn booster jab rollout now, doctors and NHS trusts have said – as it will involve bigger challenges. The doctors said there were many questions that need answering, including how long immunity from the original coronavirus jab lasts, and whether children will be vaccinated. “We cannot
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has accused the Scottish government of “hypocrisy” after it announced a travel ban to parts of the region. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday non-essential travel from Scotland to Salford and Manchester would be banned from Monday. Mr Burnham said the decision was “announced out of the blue” and
Getty Images The number of deaths related to Covid-19 has passed 500,000 in Brazil, the second-highest in the world, as experts say the outbreak could worsen amid slow vaccination and the start of winter. The virus continues to spread as President Jair Bolsonaro refuses to back measures like social distancing. The health institute Fiocruz says
Reuters A major push to offer coronavirus jabs to every adult in England is under way, with queues forming outside pop-up vaccination centres. Football grounds and parks are among the venues used across the country and it is hoped all adults will have had their first jab by 19 July. It comes as Prof Adam
Amid continued scrutiny of how the British press covers different members of the royal family, the Telegraph newspaper deleted a critical column about Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, on Thursday hours after it went up on the website. The story, titled “A rare misstep for the Duchess of Cambridge?,” criticized Kate for co-authoring a recent