It sounds simple. We roll the Covid-19 vaccine out to the public and enough of us become immune to stop the coronavirus causing any more big outbreaks. But, as University of Auckland vaccine experts Dr Helen Petousis-Harris and Dr Janine Paynter tell Jamie Morton, herd immunity isn’t always straightforward. We’ve been hearing much about “herd immunity” and how and when […]

NEW YORK — The family of a Black teenager who was falsely accused of stealing a woman’s cellphone in a New York City hotel last December filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that the woman and the hotel engaged in racial profiling. The family alleges in the lawsuit filed in state court in Manhattan that Keyon Harrold Jr. was “violently accosted” […]

Pubs could be allowed to BAN customers who haven’t had the Covid jab, Boris Johnson says, with landlords to decide whether to use vaccine passports PM suggested pubs might require customers to produce vaccine certificates  Almost 29 million people have received their first vaccine dose in Britain Boris Johnson said the ‘basic concept of a vaccine certification should not be […]

A FURIOUS dad has blasted cops for confiscating his seven-year-old daughter's mini-motorbike and leaving her in tears. Ian Trethowan, 36, bought the £1,000 toy for young Layla before taking it to a public field for a ride. The petrol-fuelled vehicles, which can hit 40mph, are illegal to operate in the open and must only be used on private land. Minutes […]

A ginormous earthworm has been spotted trying to slither its way into a motel room to escape the rain. Heavy rainfall has battered the Australian states of Queensland and New Zealand in recent days, leading to flash floods and mass home evacuations. It has also seen some of the country’s most creepy wildlife come out in their droves. Footage taken […]

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The Daily Star’s FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox A groundbreaking study claims “zombie genes” become active in the brain and grow appendages after a person dies. The behaviour was observed in glial cells, which grew for several hours in fresh brain tissue, according to scientists from the University of Illinois […]

The chairman has left, the redundancy bill is heading northwards and the Commonwealth Ombudsman has taken an interest, so there should be a lot of questions for the federal government’s $5 billion Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility at a Senate estimates hearing on Thursday night. The development financier provides loans to infrastructure projects in the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia […]