US President-elect Donald Trump has selected Indian-American scientist Jay Bhattacharya, a vocal critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of the country’s top health research and funding institutions.Trump in a statement released on Tuesday said, Bhattacharya will collaborate closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Trump’s nominee…
A ceasefire has been agreed to end 13 months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, US President Joe Biden has announced. “Effective at 04:00 tomorrow local time (02:00 GMT on Wednesday), the fighting across the Lebanese-Israeli border will end,” Biden said, adding that it aimed to be a “permanent cessation of hostilities”. Israel’s…
Head coach David Gray is happy with the spirit shown by his players as Hibs twice come from behind to snatch a dramatic 3-3 draw with Aberdeen. Source link
Getty Images Unaccompanied children detained at the border are first processed by Customs and Border Patrol before being handed over to other US authorities. Donald Trump’s incoming border tsar, Tom Homan, has said that the US government “can’t find” more than 300,000 migrant children – and that many have been lured into forced labour and…
BBC After living with unbearable pain caused by diabetes, Glen Paterson felt a sense of relief when his lower leg was amputated “It’s a massive thing to choose to have a limb removed… but I was in a very dark place.” Sitting in his hospital chair in Cardiff, Glen Paterson explains how the distress of…
The new prime minister of Mauritius has said he has reservations about a deal struck by his predecessor with the UK government over the Chagos Islands. Agreed last month, it said the UK would give up sovereignty over the remote but strategically important archipelago – though it would lease Diego Garcia, home to a joint…
Downing Street has denied allegations that a British diplomat expelled from Russia was a spy. Russian state-run news agencies reported that the country’s security service FSB accused the diplomat – whose photo was shared on Russian TV bulletins – of providing false information on his documents and carrying out espionage activities. When asked if a…
Russia has made a rare admission, saying that a key air defence system and an air base in the Kursk region were hit by Ukraine with US-supplied Atacms missiles. The defence ministry statement, which threatened retaliation, came a day after Ukraine said it had hit targets in the region. Meanwhile Ukraine’s air force said Russia…
An ex-girlfriend has reportedly admitted to accidentally throwing away her ex-partner’s hard drive containing 8000 Bitcoin worth Rs 5,900 crore (£569 million). The hard drive was disposed of during a house clearance. It currently lies beneath 100,000 tonnes of waste at a Newport disposal site.Halfina Eddy-Evans, who shares two teenage children with Howells, said that…
EPA The city’s roads have been blocked with shipping containers to stop the march reaching the centre Supporters of jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan have been pushed back by security forces after reaching the heart of the heavily-barricaded capital earlier on Tuesday. The convoy of opposition protesters has been marching towards Islamabad’s D…
