ANALYSIS: An important factor in achieving herd immunity against SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes Covid-19) is how long the vaccines protect you. If a vaccine continues to work well over a long period, it becomes easier to have a significant proportion of the population optimally protected, and in turn suppress or eliminate the disease entirely. As the rollout of Covid-19 […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (NYTIMES) – Heavily-armed assailants stormed a small city in southeast Brazil early Monday (Aug 30), in a brazen operation to rob banks that included explosives, charred vehicles and hostages that were tied to the roof of cars. The mayhem in Araçatuba, a city that is home to 200,000 people in São Paulo state, left at least three […]

A gray C-17 transport plane landed in Delaware shortly after 8 a.m. on Sunday. It carried the remains of 11 Marines, a Navy medic and an Army staff sergeant, who collectively could be the last Americans to die in the war in Afghanistan. Just before 8:40, a second plane, a white-and-blue Boeing jetliner, parked next to the transport. It carried […]

Due to the thick smoke from the Caldor Fire, the air quality near the Lake Tahoe area is nearly 40 times what the World Health Organization deems unhealthy, according to data from IQAir. For over two weeks, the Caldor Fire has swept across 177,260 acres of Northern California and only 14% or the fire is currently contained, according to the […]

A TEENAGER has been killed in a "serious assault" close to a nightclub over Bank Holiday weekend in Newcastle. And police have launched a murder investigation as three men, 20, 22 and 23 are arrested. Witnesses from the scene said police officers had cordoned off a large section of the road with forensics on the scene. The 19-year-old man was […]

A number of HelloFresh distribution staff are in isolation after two Auckland employees have tested positive for Covid-19. In an email to customers, Founder and chief executive Tom Rutledge confirmed two staff members who shared the same shift have tested positive and it is unknown whether the cases are linked. All staff who were working the same shift as the […]

A woman pulled from a house fire in Napier on Monday remains in a critical condition in Hawke’s Bay Hospital on Tuesday morning. The woman was rescued by firefighters from her fire-ravaged house on the corner of Lister Cr and Lister Pl after one of her two pre-school children escaped and told neighbours she was still inside. The woman was […]

NEW ORLEANS — Hurricane Ida knocked out power to the entire city of New Orleans, hours after blasting ashore as one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the U.S., New Orleans government officials said. The city’s Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness said on Twitter that energy company Entergy confirmed that New Orleans has no power, and […]

EUROMILLIONS winner Adrian Bayford is "consumed with guilt" as his son is fighting for his life after a horror quad bike smash, friends say. Cameron, 13, was hit by a car driven by his sister, Aimee, 15, in the sprawling grounds of their Cambridgeshire mansion. The Sun exclusively revealed yesterday the details of the horror smash as Cameron is fighting […]