Month: December 2020

Mount Everest’s precise height revealed: China and Nepal announce the summit stands 29,032 feet tall after re-measuring it to end decades-long debate China’s long-running dispute with Nepal over the height … Read More

Britain and the European Union  say talks on a free-trade deal are teetering on the brink of collapse, with just over three weeks until an economic rupture that will cause … Read More

BERLIN — Germany’s eastern state of Saxony has become the country’s hotspot for coronavirus infections, with the number of newly confirmed cases per 100,000 inhabitants reaching almost 320 in a … Read More

The first Briton to get the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine — 90-year-old Margaret Keenan — received the first of two doses at 6:31 a.m. local time on Tuesday at University Hospital in … Read More

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Coronavirus metrics at every level have been on the rise. In the five days since December 2, the US has added more than a million new cases, bringing the total … Read More

Global stocks and U.S. futures have declined as surging coronavirus infections in the United States and some other countries temper investor optimism over development of possible vaccines By JOE McDONALD … Read More

Doctor who helped save Boris Johnson’s life when he was in intensive care with coronavirus in March – and who the PM named his son after – has himself contracted … Read More

CEO of Europe’s biggest fashion website Zalando quits to prioritise his wife’s career Rubin Ritter, 38, has been a co-CEO of fashion retailer Zalando since 2010 He will resign next … Read More

Shutting Britain’s borders at the start of coronavirus’s first wave could have prevented major outbreak, another study suggests Academics looked at 162 countries and estimated the number of imported cases … Read More