The UK’s medicines regulator has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for 12 to 15-year-olds. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said the decision followed a “rigorous review” of safety and effectiveness in that age group – and that the benefits of having the COVID jab outweighed the risks. The Joint Committee on Vaccination
Month: June 2021
Facebook is under investigation in the UK by the competition regulator once again, this time for the social media giant’s advertising practices. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Friday that Facebook may hold an “unfair advantage” due to its dominant market position in the digital advertising space. Facebook might be abusing that dominance,
Kim Kardashian broke down in tears in the latest episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians while discussing her divorce from Kanye West. Kardashian cried while telling her sisters Kourtney, Kylie and Kendall that she felt like a failure during her break up with rapper. The 40-year-old filed for divorce from the father of her
Filming for the next instalment of Mission: Impossible in the UK has been halted after positive COVID-19 tests were reported, Paramount Pictures has said. It is unclear how many positive tests there were, but filming on Tom Cruise‘s latest film will now pause for two weeks as a result. The studio added in a statement:
Coronavirus cases in the community rocketed by 76.5% in just one week, according to official estimates for England. Around one in 640 people in private households had COVID-19 in the week to 29 May – up from one in 1,120 in the previous week, said the Office for National Statistics. This is the highest level
The world’s first venture capital fund to be focused on the space industry is plotting a rocket-fuelled launch onto the London stock market amid record levels of funding being ploughed into the sector. Sky News has learnt that an arm of Seraphim Capital is working with bankers on plans for a public share sale that
Brussels is to ban Belarusian planes from EU airspace as it ramps up pressure on the Minsk regime over the forced diversion of a passenger jet and arrest of a government critic. The move will also see European airlines strongly encouraged to avoid flying over the ex-Soviet country, which sparked an international outcry after a
Welsh leader Mark Drakeford has expressed concern about the Indian coronavirus variant spreading across the border from England hotspots as his country moves to further ease lockdown restrictions. While ruling out a ban on travel, the first minister has urged visitors from the North West to take “all the precautions” in order to keep themselves
More coffins of people believed to be victims of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa have been found, city officials have said. Crews searching Oaklawn Cemetery found five more coffins, bringing the total number discovered at the mass-grave site to 20. The search began last year, with researchers finding at least 12 sets of remains,
A US airline has unveiled plans to bring back supersonic transatlantic flights by the end of the decade. United Airlines has conditionally agreed to buy jets capable of flying at speeds of Mach 1.7 – twice as fast as modern airliners. The firm is set to purchase 15 ‘Overture’ airliners produced by US start-up firm
Michael Gove has received an alert from the COVID app less than a week after attending the Champions League final in Portugal with his son. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster had to abandon a meeting with Boris Johnson and the devolved leaders on Thursday afternoon after receiving the notification that he had come
A British man has died while trying to save his two daughters after they were dragged to sea off a beach in Portugal. The 45-year-old was already suffering from cardiac arrest when he was pulled from the ocean by surfers, CM Portugal reported. Despite a nurse who was on the beach spending nearly an hour
Dissident journalist Roman Protasevich has been filmed appearing to praise Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko in a new video. In the clip, recorded for Belarusian state-controlled TV, Mr Protasevich was asked whether he respected the president, to which he replied: “Absolutely.” Mr Protasevich, 26, said Mr Lukashenko has “acted like a man with balls of steel”,
The film and TV sector needs to take more responsibility for abuse in the industry, the chair of Time’s Up has told Sky News. Dame Heather Rabbatts, who is also a non-executive chairman of actor Noel Clarke‘s production company, said the sector “absolutely needs to find ways in which it can take more responsibility”. Clarke,
People hoping for an overseas trip this summer – and those hoping to sell them that break – are furious after the UK government announced changes to the list of approved destinations. Portugal, which had been the only viable popular destination on the green list, will be moved to the amber list. This will mean
Two runaway children broke into a Florida house and used an AK-47 in a shootout with sheriff’s deputies. The boy, 12, and girl, 14, found the weapons in a house in Enterprise after running away from the Florida United Methodist Children’s Home. There were four exchanges of gunfire over 35 minutes and Volusia County sheriff’s