Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick speaks at the daily COVID-19 news conference at 10 Downing Street in London, Britain April 18, 2020. Pippa Fowles/10 Downing Street/Handout via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – Britain needs to do more to get personal protective equipment (PPE) to health workers on the frontline, housing minister Robert Jenrick said on Saturday after
NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Dwindling supplies of carbon dioxide from ethanol plants is sparking concern about shortages of beer, soda and seltzer water – essentials for many quarantined Americans. FILE PHOTO: A pint of beer is poured into a glass in a bar in London, Britain June 27, 2018. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/File Photo Brewers and
FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II talks with MI5 officers during a visit to the headquarters of MI5, which is the United Kingdom’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, at Thames House in London, Britain February 25, 2020. Victoria Jones/PA Wire/Pool via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has asked that there be no gun
(Reuters) – U.S. stocks rose on Friday and also posted gains for the week, boosted by a surge in Boeing shares, President Donald Trump’s plan to reopen the coronavirus-battered economy and hopes of a potential drug by Gilead to treat COVID-19. FILE PHOTO: The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is seen in the financial district
AUCKLAND (Reuters) – The growing green concerns that will be in the spotlight on Earth Day next week are mirrored in a call for an “environmental revolution” by an 18-year-old New Zealand activist looking to take on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in an election this year. Climate change is shaping up as a major issue
LONDON (Reuters) – A 99-year-old British war veteran who has raised more than 17.9 million pounds for the health service by walking laps of his garden was praised by Queen Elizabeth’s grandson as an “absolute legend”. Veteran Capt Tom Moore talks to soldiers from 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment who formed a Guard of Honour
(Reuters) – A bear ambles across a forest glade and a herd of deer stroll down a silent road. At Yosemite National Park in Northern California, coronavirus restrictions mean no tourists – and bolder wildlife. FILE PHOTO: The Merced River flows through Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, California, U.S., March 30, 2019. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File
(Reuters) – NASA on Friday set a launch date of May 27 for its first astronaut mission from U.S. soil in nearly ten years. FILE PHOTO: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Crew Dragon astronaut capsule, lifts off on an in-flight abort test , a key milestone before flying humans in 2020 under NASA’s commercial
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union will step up efforts to control wildlife trading and make factory farming more sustainable, given that both issues have played a role in the coronavirus pandemic, the bloc’s environment chief said on Thursday. “Healthy ecosystems lead to a healthy society and therefore it is not too high a price
AMMIQ WETLAND, Lebanon (Reuters) – With Lebanese confined to their homes by the new coronavirus, migratory birds in the Mediterranean country are winging their way into the midst of quieter city life. A squacco heron (Ardeola ralloides) is pictured in Ammiq Wetland, in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa valley, Lebanon April 14, 2020. REUTERS/Ali Hashisho From flocks
A zookeeper holds a 7-week-old leopard cub at Debrecen Zoo, Hungary, April 17, 2020. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo DEBRECEN, Hungary (Reuters) – A seven-week-old leopard cat born in a Hungarian zoo was allowed out for the first time on Friday to enjoy the spring sunshine but he will have to wait a while before he can meet
LISBON (Reuters) – Portuguese car component manufacturers, among the country’s top exporters, are calling thousands of employees back to work even before a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown is lifted as Europe’s automotive sector resumes production. FILE PHOTO: An empty assembly line is pictured at Autoeuropa Volkswagen car factory during partial lockdown as part of state of
FILE PHOTO: A woman is tested at a coronavirus test centre in the car park of Chessington World of Adventures as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, London, Britain, April 14, 2020. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has expanded the number of people who are eligible to be tested for COVID-19 to
HONG KONG (Reuters) – A zero food waste cafe in Hong Kong is trying to tackle the financial hub’s escalating trash problem by providing meals that are fully compostable, such as vegetables and herb flatbreads, and packaging that is turned into fertiliser. Mana Cafe’s founder Bobsy Gaia poses with a book at his cafe in
ALMATY (Reuters) – NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan and Jessica Meir will take an unusual – and more exhausting – route home after safely landing in the Kazakh steppe on Friday, a Russian healthcare official said, because of lockdowns caused by the novel coronavirus. A capsule carrying Morgan, Meir and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka touched down
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Astronomers in Chile using one of the world’s largest telescopes have found a star “dancing” around a black hole in the Milky Way just as Albert Einstein might have predicted more than a century ago. Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, published in 1915, is a foundation of modern physics. It has long
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