Cold cases getting solved with new DNA system In less than two years, police investigators are reaping the benefits of using a new crime-solving tool. The system uploads crime scene DNA to a public genealogy website to to link suspects to cold cases. An 84-year-old man was sentenced to consecutive life sentences in Wisconsin Friday after a DNA match in […]

LONDON (BLOOMBERG) – People who contract the Delta variant of Covid-19 are more than twice as likely to be hospitalised as those infected with the Alpha strain, according to a UK study, raising the prospect of a greater burden on health services this winter. The review of more than 43,000 Covid-19 cases in England, most of whom were unvaccinated or […]

Dirty little secrets behind Pretty Little billionaire: He’s the British fast-fashion tycoon who just proposed to his model finacee with a £1.5m ring – but was slammed over low wages and factories that were ‘breeding grounds’ for Covid Pretty Little Thing CEO Umar Kamani, 33, proposed this week to Nada Adelle From supercars to diamonds, there’s nothing cheap about fast-fashion empire […]

Denmark, whose health minister said on Thursday that the country had fully vaccinated 80 percent of residents over age 12, will no longer consider Covid-19 a “socially critical disease.” It will drop all Covid restrictions as of Sept. 10. The heath minister, Magnus Heunicke, made the announcement on Twitter on Friday. The socially critical designation is a political one, which […]

KABUL, Afghanistan — American forces working under heightened security and threats of another attack pressed ahead with the evacuation from Kabul’s airport Friday, the day after a deadly suicide bombing wrote a devastating closing chapter on the United States’ withdrawal from its war in Afghanistan. The death toll rose to 169 Afghans, a number that could increase as authorities examine […]

Don’t miss a thing by getting the Daily Star’s biggest headlines straight to your inbox! An Extinction Rebellion protester went topless in the hope showing her breasts would help "draw attention" to the climate crisis, she has revealed. Open University politics student Laura Amherst, 31, was photographed with two "XR" stickers over her nipples on Wednesday as the campaign group […]

By Sayed Ziarmal Hashemi, Tameem Akhgar, Kathy Gannon and Cara Anna, The Associated Press, The Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan — Evacuation flights from Afghanistan resumed with new urgency on Friday, a day after two suicide bombings targeted the thousands of people desperately fleeing a Taliban takeover and killed dozens. The U.S. warned more attacks could come ahead of next week’s […]