Five years ago in Rio de Janeiro, Katie Ledecky did something no woman had ever done before, and something that no woman has done since: She swam the 400-meter freestyle in 3 minutes and 56.46 seconds. It was an Olympic record, a world record, and good enough for gold in a race that wasn't particularly close. Ledecky won it by […]

London: Scott Morrison has ended his UK tour with a trip to Windsor Castle to visit the Queen, who appeared beaming in press photographs taken at the start of their meeting. Her Majesty received the Australian Prime Minister on Tuesday morning local-time in the Oak Room of Windsor Castle, where she has been staying during the pandemic. Queen Elizabeth II […]

BLANKETS of cobwebs are covering the Australian countryside in what has been dubbed a "spider apocalypse" as the country battles a biblical mouse plague. Thick blankets of spider webs have been pictured stretched across the Gippsland region amid heavy rain and subsequent flooding in Victoria. The spooky veil covering shrubs, grass, and road signs, shows the spider's attempts to flee […]

‘If pubs lose their summer, they won’t survive’: Entrepreneur Hugh Osmond brands Freedom Day delay an ‘absolute disaster’– as singer Frank Turner says friends in music industry are ‘looking to sell up’ Freedom Day is pushed back four weeks to beyond the end of Euro 2020, July 11 Pub bosses warn of thousands of job losses and £1billion-a-week cost to […]

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For our free coronavirus pandemic coverage, learn more here. New York: To a growing chorus of US politicians and scientists, she is the key to whether the world will ever learn if the virus behind the devastating COVID-19 pandemic escaped from a Chinese lab. To the Chinese government and public, she is a hero of the country’s success in curbing […]

A CHEMICAL plant in Rockton, Illinois, was evacuated on Monday after an explosion sparked a massive fire. Fire crews rushed to the Chemtool factory at around 7am local time after reports of smoke from the building. Shocking footage showed the plant explode into flames as the air filled with thick black smoke that could be seen up to 25 miles […]

LIVE bats were kept at the Chinese lab at the centre of the Covid leak storm and were hand fed by scientists, according to a bombshell video. Footage appears to show bats being held at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) despite denials by a World Health Organisation (WHO) scientist close to the lab. 🔵 Read our coronavirus live blog for […]

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U.S. companies are expected to endure over 65,000 ransomware attacks this year — and that's “a conservative number,” John Chambers, former CEO of Cisco Systems (CSCO) told Yahoo Finance Live. With McDonald’s (MCD), JBS (JBSAY), and Colonial Pipeline Co. all recently coming under cyberattacks, Chambers does not foresee an end to the onslaught of cybersecurity threats anytime soon. He estimated […]