Boris Johnson asked his most senior scientific advisers if blowing a “special hair dryer” up your nose could kill COVID, according to Dominic Cummings. Mr Cummings’s full evidence statement to the COVID inquiry has been revealed, following his blockbuster in-person grilling on Tuesday. In the document, which runs for more than 100 pages, Mr Johnson‘s
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In this article INTC NVDA AMD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Lisa Su, president and chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), speaks during a launch event in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images AMD stock spiked more than 8% Wednesday,
It looks as if the end is nigh for WeWork, the flexible workspace provider that once commanded a valuation of $47bn. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the company plans to file for bankruptcy protection as early as next week. It will be an ignominious end for a once-vaunted business seen as synonymous, in
Elon Musk has told Sky News that AI is a “risk”, as the billionaire joins world leaders and tech bosses at a UK safety summit. The SpaceX and Tesla owner has long been outspoken about the dangers posed by artificial intelligence, and earlier this year warned it could even lead to “civilisation destruction”. Asked by
Chinese brewer Tsingtao says a worker who was filmed urinating into a malt container has been detained by security authorities. A video showing a man dressed in a hard hat and blue overalls climbing down into a malt container at the beer factory in Pingdu, unzipping his trousers and relieving himself went viral last week. The
Boris Johnson’s government displayed an “unbelievably bullish” approach to coronavirus early in the pandemic and sat “laughing at Italians” in meetings, a former civil servant has said. The former prime minister was “confident the UK would sail through” the outbreak of the disease and warned against “over-correcting” on something he thought “was unlikely to have
The creators of Friends have said Matthew Perry was “happy and chipper” when they spoke to the actor two weeks before he died. Marta Kauffman and David Crane told The Today Show on Sky News’s US partner network NBC that Perry was in a “really good place”. The actor, who played Chandler Bing on the
The second person to receive a heart transplanted from a pig has died, nearly six weeks after the highly experimental surgery. Lawrence Faucette, 58, was dying from heart failure and ineligible for a traditional heart transplant when he received the genetically modified pig heart on 20 September. The heart had seemed healthy for the first month,
The first British nationals have left Gaza and crossed the Rafah border into Egypt, the Foreign Office has said. UK teams are on the ground providing assistance, but the Foreign Office did not specify how many Britons had crossed the border. A total of 76 wounded people and their companions left Gaza in ambulances today,
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Picture taken on May 3, 2022 shows a general view of Slovakia’s largest mineral oil refinery Slovnaft in Bratislava, Slovakia. Joe Klamar | Afp | Getty Images Record high oil prices could be on the horizon in the event of a conflagration of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, the World Bank cautioned. Should the conflict expand
David Hale, ESPN Staff WriterOct 31, 2023, 08:12 PM ET Close ACC reporter. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of the University of Delaware. Open Extended Reactions The 2023 season has already enjoyed its share of outrage, from Ryan Day’s feud with Lou Holtz to Dabo Swinney’s lecture to a radio show caller, but Tuesday marks
The parents of 14-year-old Charlene Downes, who disappeared 20 years ago today, have appealed for anyone who knows what happened to her to “end their nightmare” and help bring them justice. Police have issued a fresh appeal for information about what happened to Charlene on the anniversary of her disappearance in Blackpool. In the years
In this article AMD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT AMD Chair and CEO Lisa Su speaks at the AMD Keynote address during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on January 4, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Robyn Beck | AFP | Getty Images AMD reported third-quarter earnings on Tuesday that beat analyst expectations, though the
A Little Britain sketch has been called “explicitly racist and outdated” by Ofcom audience research. The sketch featured in the television show, which was written and performed by David Walliams and Matt Lucas and aired from 2003 until 2006. It depicts Walliams using racist language to describe an Asian student. As part of a study
The all-electric Ford F-150 Lightning pickup found its second EU home just in time for the upcoming alpine winter. Ford F-150 Lightning finds second EU home Ford is bringing its electric truck to Switzerland as its second European market, the automaker announced Tuesday. The news comes after Ford launched the F-150 Lightning in Norway in
The BP logo is displayed outside a petrol station near Warmister, on August 15, 2022 in Wiltshire, England. Matt Cardy | Getty Images News | Getty Images LONDON — Oil major BP on Tuesday reported a steep year-on-year fall in profits, missing analyst estimates. The British energy giant logged underlying replacement cost profit, used as a
The annual mad scramble for Glastonbury tickets is (almost) upon us. The first of the festival’s roughly 135,000 spots were due to go on sale tonight, but sales have been pushed back “out of fairness” due to some confusion over the registration process. Tickets to the iconic event at Worthy Farm in Somerset, which will
D’Arcy Maine, ESPN.com Oct 31, 2023, 09:42 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Just weeks after a shower door accident required her to get stitches in both hands, Beatriz Haddad Maia had the best week of her career in Zhuhai, China. The 27-year-old arrived at the WTA Elite Trophy tournament — the second-tier year-end event —
Israel’s military says it was targeting a Hamas commander in a strike on a refugee camp in Gaza in which dozens of people are believed to have died. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) say the commander of Hamas’s Central Jabaliya Battalion, who it says was one of the leaders of the massacres in Israel on