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Scarlett Johansson suing Disney over Black Widow streaming release

Posted on Jul 30, 2021

Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney over the recent release of Black Widow. The actor is claiming that the studio’s decision to launch her first, and last, Marvel sta


Vaccine passport plan intended to coax young to have jabs, says Raab

Posted on Jul 29, 2021

The government is using the threat of domestic vaccine passports to coax and cajole people into getting fully vaccinated, the foreign secretary has admitted. Dominic


Taekwondo pundit Lutalo Muhammad becomes BBC’s breakout Olympic star

Posted on Jul 29, 2021

The BBC has faced a lot of criticism over its Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games coverage, but one element that seems to have only attracted praise has been the reassuring and c


Choreographer Drew McOnie: ‘Success is made of the time you don’t waste’

Posted on Jul 27, 2021

C horeographer Drew McOnie talks a-mile-a-minute. His cogs are constantly whirring, not only thinking about the steps he’s making, but also how


This is no ordinary spying. Our most intimate selves are now exposed

Posted on Jul 27, 2021

Here in India, the summer of dying is quickly morphing into what looks very much like a summer of spying. The second wave of coronavirus has retreated, after leaving


Exhibition tells story of Spanish children used as vaccine fridges in 1803

Posted on Jul 27, 2021

When Francisco Javier de Balmis set off from Spain in 1803 to vaccinate the people in Spain’s colonies against smallpox he had no means of keeping the vaccine fresh, s


Inflatable dinghies and Zoom medical training: how a remote Pacific atoll got Pfizer

Posted on Jul 24, 2021

The elders of Nukunonu atoll in Tokelau at the wharf on Monday morning, dressed in white and singing songs, held a banner that said: “Welcome”. In the distance, a sm


British couple, 63 and 64, are turned away from flight to Malta despite having TWO jabs after receiving Indian-made version of AstraZeneca vaccine that is still not licensed by EU

Posted on Jul 14, 2021

Have you received doses of the Indian-made vaccine?  If you've received doses of the Indian-made vaccine and turned away from your flight, get in touch by emailing k


The Oxford vaccine: the trials and tribulations of a world-saving jab

Posted on Jun 26, 2021

I n January 2020, when most of the world slept soundly in ignorance of the pandemic coming its way, a group of scientists at Oxford University got


Not only the brave: why straight actors playing gay are no longer automatically acclaimed

Posted on Jun 18, 2021

In February 1994, Hollywood seemed to change for ever. Tom Hanks – the epitome of the American everyman – won a best actor Oscar for playing the out gay protagonist in


AstraZeneca vaccine price pledge omits some poor countries, contract shows

Posted on Jun 18, 2021

AstraZeneca can charge a higher price for its Covid-19 vaccine in dozens of poor countries once the pharmaceutical company decides the pandemic has ended, according to


Doctor Who: Time Fracture review – a close encounter with cosmic anarchy

Posted on Jun 17, 2021

“I t’s been a frantic day,” says Leonardo da Vinci with a sigh. He is leaning on a scattered collection of sketches, the top drawing of whic


Vaccine nationalism is killing us. We need an internationalist approach

Posted on Jun 17, 2021

W e have the power to end this pandemic. We have the technology, materials and productive capacity to vaccinate the world against Covid-19 this ye


Horizon Special: The Vaccine review – meet the superheroes who saved the planet

Posted on Jun 17, 2021

T here is a dizzying sense of scale imparted by the Horizon special on the coronavirus vaccine. On the one hand, you have the pathogen – so tiny


New York, New Music: how the city became a hotbed for music in the 80s

Posted on Jun 17, 2021

I n Kid Creole and the Coconuts’ irrepressible 1980 song Darrio, a klatch of female backup singers bouncingly plead with the titular gentleman to


Thursday briefing: Two jabs to beat quarantine

Posted on Jun 17, 2021

Top story: Hancock said to be open to travel proposal Hello, Warren Murray here giving you the green light to proceed. British travellers who have had their two


Got the jab, bought the T-shirt: ‘vaxinistas’ and the rise of pandemic merchandise

Posted on Jun 15, 2021

T his summer’s trend is not a dish or a dress, but a clean bill of health posted on social media. There’s even a word for it: a “vaxinistaâ€


Coronavirus outpacing vaccine effort, says WHO, after G7 doses pledge

Posted on Jun 15, 2021

The World Health Organization has warned that Covid-19 is moving faster than the vaccines, and said the vow by G7 countries to share a billion doses with poorer nation


Vaccines are working – but these charts show we’re right to delay reopening in England

Posted on Jun 14, 2021

Two-thirds of the population in England are insufficiently protected against the Delta coronavirus variant, exclusive data analysis by the Guardian can reveal. Despi


Despite the grand words, this G7 falls devastatingly short on vaccines

Posted on Jun 14, 2021

T he history of international summits is a tale of missed opportunities. When the US and Europe met in Evian in 1938, with the evidence of Nazi an


Johnson defends G7 deal amid criticism of final communique

Posted on Jun 13, 2021

Boris Johnson sought to defend the deal struck by G7 leaders at the Cornwall summit, as green groups and anti-poverty campaigners said the rich nations’ club had faile


After a year at home, children with disabilities deserve priority vaccination

Posted on Jun 10, 2021

T hey disappeared more than a year ago and many are still out of sight. When the pandemic hit, 53,000 under-18s in England with disabilities that


‘Extremely rare’: Australia records second death ‘likely linked’ to AstraZeneca vaccine blood clots

Posted on Jun 10, 2021

A 52-year-old woman from NSW who died after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine is “likely” Australia’s second death from a rare and severe blood clotting syndrome


AstraZeneca vaccine linked to slightly higher risk of blood disorder

Posted on Jun 10, 2021

Data from Scotland’s Covid vaccination programme has revealed a possible small increase in the risk of a treatable and often mild bleeding disorder after the first dos